Hobby Lobby is raising its “minimum full-time hourly wage” to $18.50 starting in 2022.
The arts-and-crafts chain announced the upcoming pay increase Tuesday that will begin on Jan. 1. It’s $1.50 an hour higher than the last increase that began in October 2020.
Hobby Lobby said it was one of the first retailers to establish a nationwide minimum hourly wage “well above the federal minimum wage and has since raised its minimum wage twelve times over the last thirteen years.”
In 2014, the chain said it raised its full-time minimum wage to $15 “well before it became a trend with other retailers.”…
