Opinion | It’s Not Just Wages. Retailers Are Mistreating Workers in a More Insidious Way. - The New York Times

The problem is that most Walmart employees don't make $36,400, the annualized equivalent of $17.50 an hour at 40 hours a week. Last year, the median Walmart worker made 25 percent less than that, $27,326 — equivalent to an average of 30 hours a week. And that's the median; many Walmart workers worked less than that. 

Likewise, at Target, where pay starts at $15 an hour, the median employee makes not $31,200, the annualized full-time equivalent, but $25,993. The median employee of TJX (owner of such stores as TJ Maxx, Marshalls and HomeGoods) makes $13,884 a year; the median Kohl's employee makes $12,819.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/19/opinion/part-time-workers-usa.html