McDonalds increases average salaries for management

[jerry611]

I remember when I was little my parents always used to tell me that I better go to school or I'll be flipping hamburgers all my life. Well, if my parents knew flipping hamburgers would make so much money, they probably wouldn't have said that...

I'm not sure if this is corporate-wide or a franchise thing, but the McDonalds resturants in my area according to a friend of mine that works for them is increasing the salary for a resturaunt manager with a college degree to $45,000/year with cash bonuses and possibly a company car. Previously the average was 38K.
It is the latest strategy by McDonalds to fill positions at the store level with young, college-educated minds and to encourage current employees to go to college and stay with the company.
Salaries for Asst Managers will also increase to $35,000/year with possible cash bonuses.

Meanwhile the average starting salary in my area for a high school teacher with a Masters degree? $22,000 a year.
And we wonder why there is a teacher shortage?? When you can make 45 grand flipping hamburgers and filling up fry cartons, why go to grad school just to get screamed at by spoiled kids and stupid parents for 22K?

Too bad we don't have young, college-educated minds in our government... All we have is rich old guys that bought their degrees.

[Broken_Hero]

1. sounds like an improvement to me

for McDonalds at least. To bad we can't talk our elected officials into raising the minimum wage...

on edit:spelling

[burythehatchet]

2. And the people who take care of our children and our elderly

make 7 or 8 bucks an hour.

[jerry611]

3. Yep, that's my point

I'm not bashing McDonalds for raising salaries. But what makes me mad is that you can make more money working at McDonalds than working a job that is more vital to our society. It's not McDonald's fault, it is the government and other greedy corporations that don't want to reward their employees with more money.

[snappyturtle]

4. My college graduate daughter managed at.....

a McDonald's in Maple Grove, MN. She worked long hours and had to learn basic Spanish to handle the kitchen crew! It's a dog eat dog existence. Do you know that McDonald's pits restaurant vs. restaurant? For example: they have little performance scheme's and bonuses (coupons to Target,et.al) to the restaurant that serves the most drive up customers in the shortest amount of time? They actually time from when a customer places a drive-up order to when the customer gets the bag at the window?

Maybe your post should read: "When you can make 45 grand flipping hamburgers and filling up fry cartons, why go to grad school just to get screamed at by management and stupid customers for 22K?" For all her hard work and help making her store's location one of the best, she was given stock options. Recently, when she tried to avail herself of these options she discovered the fine, very fine, corporate trick of an ending date those options were available! Now, her stock option bag is as empty as the nutritional value of a Big Mac. It's truly sad that college grads don't have the job choices available after graduation I had in 1969.

Just ranting--sorry.

[Rosemary2205]

5. Fast food management is a seriously crappy job.

You think getting teenagers to make their beds is hard -- wait till you want one to clean out the grease traps on a weekend night. I've been there and even with a fabulous, stable and trustworthy crew under me - it never failed the day of my vacation a shift leader got a kidney stone, had a car wreck, house burnt down and there goes my vacation. And many companies are especially tough on labor hours -- meaning salaried management can put in 80+ hrs a week on a regular basis to get their full bonus.

It definately has it's rewards but it's not a cake walk by any means.

[jerry611]

6. All management jobs are difficult

What you described could be true for any business. When I was in college I worked for Walgreens as a photo/pharmacy tech part-time to have some spending money. And the general manager seemed to live in that store. He would always be working. Long hours, 6 day weeks, etc...

The thing with management is that you are at the top. And everything that goes wrong in that store will directly effect you. If your assistant gets sick, guess who has to fill the void? You! And depending on the company, you may not even get paid for filling in that shift...although usually they will pay. But when you work 16-18 hour days, money isn't that important anymore.