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I was just curious what Kroger Managers get paid by department.  Also, are Kroger managers covered by the Union or not ?

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Anonymous wrote:

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Most union contracts forbid management from stocking or taking hours from the employees by doing their job. So I would think that management is not in the union. At least not in our zone. Plus you won't find many management people willing to do actual labor.

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Is it safe to assume that you are not talking about Department managers and are talking about Co-managers, associates and Grocery managers?
Now I do know that management can come back and help out some when we are in a bind but can not do a schedual with the intentions of coming back and working a shift to avoid Over time.

 

notawhiner wrote:

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I walk over 7 miles a day at my store, I don't get a lunch break and the only time I actually sit down is to have a cig for about 2 minutes.  

Please stop lumping all management into the same pool............ I work too damn hard, I don't get overtime and they can make me work as LONG as they want to, call me in on my days off...... etc......... I get NOTHING for this.....

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Worked with more Co`s than I can ever keep track mof for the last 20 years or so. Just like any other department, there was a few bad Co`s but they do not last long. Only thing i can say is that Co managers proov that slavery and slave wages still do exist in these days. You pay would not be that bad is everything worked great, stores fully staffed with great help. Never called in or have to work another department to help out and disdtrict managers and hire ups never came without a ghood days notice and there was never a need for over time in the store. But then this is the real world and slaves like you still exist.

Comments was not made to poke fun at you but at the rates you have to bust your ass for the little comensation and headaces you got to put up with.

 

@notawhiner, how would you know you walk 7 miles a day?  As a DSD receiver I walk a lot!   I have to unload multiple trucks a day, meaning walking from the truck all the way down the back hall to put anywhere from 3-6 frozen pallets in their freezer, 3-4 milk pallets as well as 1-2 perishable and a pallet of eggs in the dairy cooler then do meat and produce too.  Basically I have to walk from one end to the other at least 15 times during a given day, and this is at 6am!  How many people do you know that could come in at 6am and be able to go from zero to running 90mph? 

Now I do grocery too which requires walking back and forth/up and down the aisles a lot.  On sundays I have to do a DSD shelf review, a grocery shelf review, and a Drug GM shelf review (so add 3 trips over the store just for shelf reviews) I've heard a lot of people talk about walking so many miles each day in the store but really everybody walks a lot!  The only departments that really don't have a whole lot of walking would be like the dairy, frozen and probably deli and produce since they're pretty much in their own small corners of the store.  The grocery takes up most of the real estate within the store.   

Another thing grocery has to deal with that most other departments don't have to deal with (with the exception of baggers) is work in the heat,  the back docks are not cooled, some days during the summer it's actually cooler outside!!!  I wish I could work in the cool of a meat, produce or dairy cooler!  they've got it made.

Anonymous wrote:

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I was just curious what Kroger Managers get paid by department.  Also, are Kroger managers covered by the Union or not ?

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Well, since you asked....

Co-Managers: $34k-$55k per year, depending on length of service. When you consider the long hours that the salaried managers put in (50 hour work week is standard), they're really no better off than the department managers.

Store Managers: $45k-$70k per year before bonuses, depending on how the District Manager rates them on their yearly reviews. Oddly enough, Kroger Store Managers earn a salary that is comparable to that of a department manager at HEB or Zone Manager at Target/Home Depot, etc, and is considerably less than what an HEB/Wal-Mart/Target store manager earns (upwards of $80k before bonuses). So whenever you get frustrated with your management staff, keep in perspective that they're among the lowest paid in the industry. Perhaps the salaried managers should collectively bargain on some level....

Also, Kroger management staff at the Co-Manager level and above are not members of the Union.

Anonymous wrote:

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Do not disclose him for making a point of how hard he works! Ever heard of a pedometer? My son works for Kroger and has been promoted to assistant manager of his department. He was told he would get a decent raise and only received a five cent raise   He works his butt off. How unfair. No vacation all year because everyone had seniority. Then was told he might have to wait until next ear until he stood up for himself. There is a difference between weining and being taken advantage of by management.

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 That's a rather unique way to spell the word, "whining".

Kudos to kroger Stores for taking the risk and hiring and training promising co managers who do not have prior grocery experience but may have other related work.  That said, shame to Kroger for not puting ethics, appropriate people management, health and morale ahead of the slave tactics clearly en vogue.  What goes around always comes around. The economy will pick up and when it does, employees do not ever forget how they have been treated and the do go away if they are not being treated well. A good employee is an invaluable asset and worth paying for.  Kroger loses alot of money in training folks who move on to WF, Trader Joes, Central MKT, etc for alot more money, better treatment and work hours.  It would be in Krogers ultimate best interest to retain who they train by creating an ethical work place with a valid work and life balance.  I have seen salaried individuals win lawsuits for being mandated to work cruel schedules, I have seen families sue a company for cause when a family member dies or is badly injured.  The bargain Kroger may feel they gain in wasting away their good talents is not worth the end results.  A smart company going places would surely figure this one out...its not rocket science. You get what you give, eventually.  Target was sued for this very thing and lost in court.

I see that your Kroger floor supervisors make more! Prior to promotion I was a checker and made 7.55. Due to the newest contract I now make 7.65 but that's a checker raise. In Houston, our supervisors don't get a pay raise! I would possibly be making 7.95 an hour? I should talk to my union rep about this.