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June 9, 2025

Walmart's army of bakery decorators take the cake when it comes to hourly store pay

  • The discount retail chain's 6,200-strong army of icing artisans are Walmart's highest paid hourly workers, excluding store managers.
    • By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO
    AP Business Writer

    NEW YORK — Inside a Walmart store in New Jersey, a worker puts the finishing touches on a cake with an edible ink Sponge Bob on top. A colleague creates a buttercream rosette border for a different cake, while another co-worker frosts a tier of what will be a triple-deck dessert.

    It's graduation season, the busiest time of year for the 6,200 employees the nation's largest retailer trained to hand-decorate cakes per customers' orders. The cakes themselves come, pre-made, frozen and in a variety of shapes and sizes, from suppliers, not Walmart's in-store bakeries.


     
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