Fast Facts on Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart fast facts:

1. Wal-Mart employs 1.8 million associates worldwide, including 1.3 million in the United States.

2. Wal-Mart operates in more than 6,500 stores in 15 countries and serves more than 176 million customers around the globe each week.

3. Wal-Mart associates – both full and part time – can become eligible for health care for as little as $11 per month in some areas.

4. Wal-Mart health plans insure more than 1 million people, making them among the largest providers of health insurance in the nation.

5. According to an independently-certified study, Wal-Mart saves the average American household more than $2,300 per year.

6. Wal-Mart donated more than $245 million to charitable organizations last year, the majority of which was given at the local level. [1]

7. More than three-quarters of our store managers began careers with Wal-Mart as hourly associates.

8. Wal-Mart is the nation’s largest private employer and a leading employer of minorities, with more than 225,000 African American associates; more than 150,000 Hispanic associates; and more than 240,000 seniors who are 55 or older.

9. At a recent store opening in Evergreen Park, Illinois, more than 25,000 people applied for 325 available jobs.

10. Wal-Mart’s average, full-time hourly wage is $10.11 and is even higher in urban areas, where the cost of living is higher.

11. The Wal-Mart Acres for America program has permanently conserved 360,000 acres, more than double the original goal of the program. [2]

12. Wal-Mart has created more than 240,000 new jobs over the past three years in the U.S.

13. According to PRWeek magazine's first Public Relations Cause Survey, Wal-Mart ranked among the top three companies committed to supporting causes and charities.