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Fortune
Chloe Taylor

Walmart is trimming starting wage for some new employees in sign that red hot U.S. labor market is cooling off

Florida, Miami, Walmart discount department store, check out lines. (Credit: Jeff Greenberg—Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

Retail giant Walmart is cutting its starting wages for some new hires as competition among employers looking to tap into the red-hot labor market starts to subside.

Under the new system—which was first reported by the Wall Street Journal on Thursday—most of Walmart’s new hourly workers now earn the lowest hourly pay rate available in their store when they join the company.

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