I just found out that a tire place down the street from me has been taken over by Monro Tire/Tire Choice, which is evidently an east coast company. I decided to look into their company, and found a couple of websites that claim to give companies' average pay for particular jobs.
I found that the store I've been buying tires from for the last several years, Americas Tire, has noticeably lower pay rates than Monro, or the other national chains that I searched for—on payscale.com and indeed.com. AT was paying $11-13/hour for the same jobs that other chains were paying $14/hr for.
I'm not sure what to make of that, because I was under the impression that AT paid their employees pretty good. I have gone there for several years, and I often see the same faces year after year—at least at the local place I go to. When I see people working at one place for a long time, that tells me that they are getting fairly well compensated or else they'd be going elsewhere.
On the other hand, I also saw on these sites that Target pays a bit more than Walmart does, for the same job, and Costco is paying 2-3 bucks/hr more than either. That dovetails with what I've heard about pay at WM, Target, & Costco, so that suggests that these wage/salary sites are in fact accurate?
I went back and looked at the number of samples for what those sites called a "Tire Technician," and here is what I found for these numbers:
Americas Tire $13.79 (33 samples)
Discount Tire $11.51 (56 samples); $12.84 (410 samples)
Les Schwab $14.55 (14 samples)
Firestone $14.58 (17 samples)
Goodyear $16.85 (25 samples)
Like I said, what little I have heard about wages suggests that the sites are accurate, but on the other hand, I was surprised that AT did so poorly. Looking at the number of samples for each hourly wage, it is easy to look at that and think that perhaps with more samples, Les Schwab and Firestone wages would be dropping some.
I'm wondering if anyone here has worked for any of these places, and could comment on wages at these locations? How does AT/DT stack up to the competition?
Thoughts?
I found that the store I've been buying tires from for the last several years, Americas Tire, has noticeably lower pay rates than Monro, or the other national chains that I searched for—on payscale.com and indeed.com. AT was paying $11-13/hour for the same jobs that other chains were paying $14/hr for.
I'm not sure what to make of that, because I was under the impression that AT paid their employees pretty good. I have gone there for several years, and I often see the same faces year after year—at least at the local place I go to. When I see people working at one place for a long time, that tells me that they are getting fairly well compensated or else they'd be going elsewhere.
On the other hand, I also saw on these sites that Target pays a bit more than Walmart does, for the same job, and Costco is paying 2-3 bucks/hr more than either. That dovetails with what I've heard about pay at WM, Target, & Costco, so that suggests that these wage/salary sites are in fact accurate?
I went back and looked at the number of samples for what those sites called a "Tire Technician," and here is what I found for these numbers:
Americas Tire $13.79 (33 samples)
Discount Tire $11.51 (56 samples); $12.84 (410 samples)
Les Schwab $14.55 (14 samples)
Firestone $14.58 (17 samples)
Goodyear $16.85 (25 samples)
Like I said, what little I have heard about wages suggests that the sites are accurate, but on the other hand, I was surprised that AT did so poorly. Looking at the number of samples for each hourly wage, it is easy to look at that and think that perhaps with more samples, Les Schwab and Firestone wages would be dropping some.
I'm wondering if anyone here has worked for any of these places, and could comment on wages at these locations? How does AT/DT stack up to the competition?
Thoughts?
