Hobby Lobby raising minimum wage to $18.50 in January

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Hobby Lobby -- "Honoring the Lord successful each we bash by operating the institution successful a mode accordant with Biblical principles," reads the ngo connection of this privately held concatenation of much than 450 arts and crafts stores. "We judge that it is by God's grace and proviso that Hobby Lobby has endured." (DangApricot via Wikimedia Commons)

SAN ANTONIO – Hobby Lobby announced Tuesday that each full-time employees who gain an hourly wage volition marque a minimum of $18.50-an-hour starting successful January.

The retail concatenation last raised its minimum hourly wage to $17 successful Sept. 2020 for full-time hourly employees.

The federally established minimum wage is presently $7.25, but galore states person legislated minimum wages higher than the national minimum. Texas has followed the national minimum wage since 2009.

“We person a agelong way grounds of taking attraction of our employees,” said Hobby Lobby laminitis and CEO, David Green. “In 1998, we made the determination to adjacent our stores connected Sundays, and astatine 8:00 p.m. the remainder of the week, to supply employees clip for rest, family, and worship. We’ve besides worked hard implicit the years to supply the champion wage and benefits successful retail, which has allowed america to pull and clasp an outstanding radical of associates to service our devoted customers.”

There are presently 923 retail Hobby Lobby stores including 7 successful the San Antonio area.

“We are thankful for our occurrence arsenic a institution and thrilled to statesman the caller twelvemonth by sharing that occurrence with thousands of our employees,” said Green.

The summation volition spell into effect connected Jan. 1, 2022.

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Mary Claire Patton

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