Last time I looked (and I admit it was a while back) they were encouraging their employees to sign up for Medicaid because therapy was so low the employees would qualify.

salaries were lumped in with hourly employees to inflate the average.

Also - is $13.12/hour enough to be out of the Medicaid range? I have no idea. I just know that in some research I did on Walmart many years back (5+) they had lots of tricks to divert attention away from the low wages and lack of benefits.

They also had lots of accounting tricks to keep from paying state and local taxes, such that having a Walmart in town was almost always a cost to the city and state.

When I was accepted to the Ph.D. program, I did not pay a dime for my degree, as the Walton Foundation covered the entire cost. No, I have never been employed at Wal-Mart, but I don't rail against them any more. They also gave us Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

Matching stock purchase and med. insurance... not great coverage but still.

Our husband has better coverage for her and the family.