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Costco raising starting wages to $16 amid calls for federal $15 minimum – will competitors follow? Alex Woodward © Provided by The Independent Costco, the second-largest global retailer behind Walmart, will raise its hourly base wages for workers to $16, the company’s chief executive Craig Jelinek told members of Congress on Thursday. The wage hike – which pushes its starting pay above competitors like Amazon, Target and Walmart – comes as lawmakers debate raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour from the current $7.25 minimum. Congressional Republicans have objected to efforts to raise the federal minimum – which is even lower for tipped workers – as part of a $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief package proposed by the White House and due tor a vote in the House of Representatives on Friday.

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