Packages of steaks at a Costco store
Costco pays better than any other major retailer.
  • Wages for retail workers have been going up in recent years.
  • SEC rules require publicly traded companies to disclose their workers' median annual pay.
  • Here's the median wage for workers at 19 retail companies, from lowest to highest.

Retail workers' hourly wages have increased substantially in the last several years as major employers like Walmart, Target, Home Depot, Lowe's, and more have plowed billions of dollars into pay increases in a bid to get people to join — and stay.