Skip to main content Currently Reading Trader Joe's increased 'thank you' pay to $4 in February. Now it wants to cut that by half. FacebookTwitterEmail Trader Joe's told its crew members that it plans to reduce its $4 "thank you" pay by half.Diane Macdonald/Moment Editorial/Getty Images Just months after Trader Joe’s announced that it would temporarily increase its “thank you” pay to hourly crew members to $4, the grocery chain is purportedly cutting that bonus by half. "After only three months, the company announced that on May 1st they will take away our additional two dollars, and we fear the rest of the ‘Thank You Pay’ is soon to follow," the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee wrote on coworker.org. The online petition is asking that the $4 “thank you” pay remain permanent.