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Wage and more than the average rate for all hourly retail sales people in america. >> our management team, our assistant managers start around 55,000 a year. our store managers average about $170,000 a year. so it's a good opportunity. >> reporter: the math clearly works for more than 300,000 walmart employees. who have been with the company for more than ten years. but not for tiffany barroyd and others on the lower end of the walmart pay scale. >> why don't you just go work for someone else? >> i've been looking for other jobs. they're just had to come by. >> reporter: and that, erin, seems ...

Retailer is essentially exploiting the hunger for jobs. walmart, however, has pushed back hard. the president and ceo bill simon. >> our pay is in the top half of what retail offers. what our industry offers. >> reporter: walmart u.s. cites a litany. they have 1.3 million employees with more than half full time. the average pay is $12.83 an hour. more than $5 above minimum wage and more than the average rate for all hourly salespeople in america. >> our management team, our assistant managers start around $55,000 a year. our store managers start around $100,000 a area. the math clearly works...

Publicly. >> obviously a lot of controversy about walmart wages. do you think that walmart pays people enough to live on? >> our pay is in the top half of what retail offers, what our industry offers. we'r proud of the opportunity that we provide people. our company gives people the chance to start and work their way through the organization. our folks can very quickly move from an entry level position into a more supervisory hourly role into a department manager role and into an assistant manager role. our management team, our assistant managers, start around $55,000 a year and our store mana...

Two masked gunmen rush through the front doors and seize one of the assistant managers. >> one of the managers ran across an aisle holding a piece of shelving and headed directly to the stock room. this frightened me and i suddenly realized that something was wrong. seconds later i saw another manager with a gunman in the pharmacy area. the gunman saw me. and i saw him. >> hovan moves back to call 911 but the gunman hurtles over the counter. hovan draws the handgun he legally carries in a concealed holster during every shift. the robber appears to fire his weapon, although it doesn't go off. >...

26 years. so that's a huge jump. that comes after several weeks of mortgage rate increases. we're seeing this because investors are selling out of their bond positions off federal reserve comments they are going to start winding down their -- >> the fed is saying hold on a second. we may not be doing that much. >> what does that mean for potential home buyers? it means the cost of borrowing is getting more expensive. that increase, you're talking about an extra $46 per month for every $100,000 you spend. and i think the rates will keep going on. >> a little tipping at starbucks. >> new york's ...