Walmart Dangles $110,000 Starting Pay to Lure Truck Drivers

"In the U.S., median annual pay for heavy-truck and tractor-trailer drivers was $47,130 in 2020" (WSJ April 2022).

Walmart uses two prongs to address the shortage of drivers.

1. Higher wages.  "In the U.S., median annual pay for heavy-truck and tractor-trailer drivers was $47,130 in 2020"
2. Training workers from other departments to become truck drivers. "Walmart has moved 17 workers from its warehouse operations through its truck-driver training program so far, she said, and it aims to add hundreds of drivers through the program by the end of the year."