Comment by aeonik

1 day ago

Costco's IT department is not above market rates in the Seattle area fyi.

How I understood OP - is that Costco pays better than other big retailers. Also probably not only for IT department, but on average (including cashiers and such).

  • Yea I get that.

    But the context of the conversation is white collar crime, corruption, or unfair practices, and paying significantly above market rate.

    Costco is a very egalitarian organization. They pay is flatter across the entire hierarchy. Lower rank people are paid more, higher ranked people are paid less. They are a super ethical organization, I'm a big fan (though they could do better at incentivizing innovation).

    It's just not the same pattern as paying gigantic amounts of money to hoard up "CS grads" or lawyers.