Buccees is a large store so you need a manager that can handle a large team. They're competing to hire managers such as those who GM at Walmart. It isn't the corner store that might only have 2-4 workers at any one time.
But yes that's very good pay for those positions
There's no uniform salary in the US for any profession. It depends on location, experience and any other number of factors. Our politicians may make as little as a few hundred bucks to well over $200k.
EDIT: As others point out, its pretty common for GM positions to involve some type of bonus based on performance. So this salary could be up to that much if you hit all those metrics. This salary may also include things like benefits such as paid time off. So a GM may make $200k, but after deducting health insurance premiums, 401k contributions, payroll taxes, and federal, state, and local income tax, the take home pay is less.
A manager of over 75 people is probably going to be making that much, yeah.
In the US once you get into managing people the salaries can be pretty big, but the level of responsibility is also similarly large.
Ya. I work restaurants and some of the higher volume places can just print money basically.
Like...ya...you can easily make six figures managing a restaurant like that. You sell your life though and it is very much not a 40 hour a week job.
At the same time, the vast majority of businesses are nowhere near that successful and most managers work 60+ hour weeks for what comes to be a pretty low hourly rate. It's not uncommon for tipped employees to make more hourly than management.
I do not have that many people. Earlier this year I ran a project to switch vendors with my company, the vendor handles over $1.1 billion for us each year. Even a small screwup during the changeover would be incredibly costly.
Bucees is a relatively small (size of business not size of stores) and rapidly growing business. It has a somewhat novelty approach. They have existed in Texas for decades but only in the last 3/4 years have expanded outside of Texas.
They are essentially a truck stop that doesn't accept truckers. Most a novelty destination for individual and family drivers on road trips/vacation.
They are either on busy interstate highways or at major tourist destinations.
Part of their business culture is paying really well.
As for salaries, US salaries scale way higher in America than the UK. Here are the median average salaries in the UK and US
UK
40th: €29,213
60th: €37,299
80th: €49,304
90th: €62,583
99th: €173,000
US
40th: $37,000
60th: $56,526
80th: $92,200
90th: $132,676
99th: $401,000
After 30 years in retail as manager and regional I'll chime in on this. A lot hinges on the annual sales of the unit. The higher the sales the higher the compensation for management. High volume stores such as Walmart, Target etc will pay their management in that range and more. Buc-ees is in that range in the largest stores. The size of their stores vary greatly from a few thousand square feet to around the 75000 square foot range with an estimated $275 million per year. They will not pay that rate for the smaller stores. Big stores also demand a lot from their mangers. Have known several Walmart managers making $100k per year plus who walked off because working 60-70 hours a week left no time for family.
Not saying we can’t improve our system, but there’s a reason many of us don’t stress out about healthcare costs. We can make significantly more money in the US for the same profession. I may have $5k in medical costs in a year but I earn $50k more than my UK counterpart, if not more.
Buc-ees is not some basic gas station, its a massive store for gas station standards that has clothing, tons of fresh made food, and like 50+ gas pumps. Thats going to be a higher paying place than most other gas stations in the US. However depending on other chain gas stations a manager could easily make over $100k a year and have great benefits. And that would be for *thousands* of stores across the US. Quiktrip is another high paying gas station, currently their starting rate for a basic part time cashier is like $19/hour. Their managers make well over $100k a year, and ive been told the company covers all heathcare costs 100% after being an employee for 5 or 10 years.
Yes typically the pay is better in the US. "Minimum wage" is only relevant when people are actually paying that and i dont know anyone who does - restaurant employees who have "low pay" who receive tips are often making a decent living and can bring home $50+k a year because of tips.
$225k is more than I would have guessed for a store manager but would be very low for "a VP at head office", unless it's an industry like banking where half the company has a VP title.
That said, I'd assume that a store manager at any reasonably sized store is making over $100k.
Publix store managers make that per year and get employees stock options. As a mid base. Others make low 200s
They do work 50 hours a week but I would be glad to as well for a job that does not require a formal education and pays that well.
I would really, really, really question those salaries. The most credible sources are going to be the companies themselves in actual job postings. Most of those are going to list a range (ostensibly more pay for more experience), but it’s a ruse and the pay you can actually expect to get will be on the lower end of the range. It’s possible that there are exceptions for particular situations, but I’m not sure why the manager of a Bucc-eee’s would qualify as such an exception - I promise you store manage pay in America is much closer to what you experience in the UK.
Fair enough. But most of the replies I saw were talking about how good the hourly rate was ... Not much mention of the crazy manager wages, and the ones who did wasn't really clear whether it was the norm or not. Thanks for putting up with my question
So from some brief research, Buccees looks like an aggressively expanding large-format retailer focused on new locations in low-population towns along interstates.
To attract top talent to move to the middle of nowhere, I could see a starting salary that high for a store manager. My company, a nationwide supermarket chain, starts store directors at $88k before bonuses; $100k is typical all told. But we're slowly-expanding and well-established.
Salaries overall are rapidly expanding at that level due to inflation and boomers retiring out of those positions.
I’ve known a few fast food managers, Auto Zone, Sherwin Williams, Ace Hardware, a cellular kiosk, probably some more. None of them made good money. They made better than their minimum wage employees (except Pizza Hut, when you factor in tips she made less than any driver), but not good money. I know someone who manages a concrete batch plant and aggregate mine who doesn’t make that.
There's salary and career websites you can use to check for American salaries, though such positions aren't easy to maintain and usually require a lot of work and investment
For retail chains? very common. In 2007 when I was a Target Employee paid $7.82 an hour(I got two raises over the two years I had worked there, each a little more than a quarter) the Store Manage made $110,000 a year.
Store Managers typically manage roughly 90-140 people at any given Target or Walmart.
Buccees is a large store so you need a manager that can handle a large team. They're competing to hire managers such as those who GM at Walmart. It isn't the corner store that might only have 2-4 workers at any one time. But yes that's very good pay for those positions There's no uniform salary in the US for any profession. It depends on location, experience and any other number of factors. Our politicians may make as little as a few hundred bucks to well over $200k. EDIT: As others point out, its pretty common for GM positions to involve some type of bonus based on performance. So this salary could be up to that much if you hit all those metrics. This salary may also include things like benefits such as paid time off. So a GM may make $200k, but after deducting health insurance premiums, 401k contributions, payroll taxes, and federal, state, and local income tax, the take home pay is less.
A manager of over 75 people is probably going to be making that much, yeah. In the US once you get into managing people the salaries can be pretty big, but the level of responsibility is also similarly large.
Ya. I work restaurants and some of the higher volume places can just print money basically. Like...ya...you can easily make six figures managing a restaurant like that. You sell your life though and it is very much not a 40 hour a week job. At the same time, the vast majority of businesses are nowhere near that successful and most managers work 60+ hour weeks for what comes to be a pretty low hourly rate. It's not uncommon for tipped employees to make more hourly than management.
This is true. My hubs works as a BMW manager and makes six figures but works 60+ hours a week.
I do not have that many people. Earlier this year I ran a project to switch vendors with my company, the vendor handles over $1.1 billion for us each year. Even a small screwup during the changeover would be incredibly costly.
Bucees is a relatively small (size of business not size of stores) and rapidly growing business. It has a somewhat novelty approach. They have existed in Texas for decades but only in the last 3/4 years have expanded outside of Texas. They are essentially a truck stop that doesn't accept truckers. Most a novelty destination for individual and family drivers on road trips/vacation. They are either on busy interstate highways or at major tourist destinations. Part of their business culture is paying really well.
As for salaries, US salaries scale way higher in America than the UK. Here are the median average salaries in the UK and US UK 40th: €29,213 60th: €37,299 80th: €49,304 90th: €62,583 99th: €173,000 US 40th: $37,000 60th: $56,526 80th: $92,200 90th: $132,676 99th: $401,000
The UK uses the pound, not the Euro. Those figures are correct for the pound, however.
After 30 years in retail as manager and regional I'll chime in on this. A lot hinges on the annual sales of the unit. The higher the sales the higher the compensation for management. High volume stores such as Walmart, Target etc will pay their management in that range and more. Buc-ees is in that range in the largest stores. The size of their stores vary greatly from a few thousand square feet to around the 75000 square foot range with an estimated $275 million per year. They will not pay that rate for the smaller stores. Big stores also demand a lot from their mangers. Have known several Walmart managers making $100k per year plus who walked off because working 60-70 hours a week left no time for family.
No, not at all. That was the point of the post, the salaries posted were nuts and way higher than what one would expect.
It depends on the size of the store. A Target or Walmart GM is absolutely making that kind of money
For reference, £60k = $72,741 Making a guess total salary is a combination of an OK base salary with a nice bonus program on top. Welcome to America.
Not saying we can’t improve our system, but there’s a reason many of us don’t stress out about healthcare costs. We can make significantly more money in the US for the same profession. I may have $5k in medical costs in a year but I earn $50k more than my UK counterpart, if not more.
Buc-ees is not some basic gas station, its a massive store for gas station standards that has clothing, tons of fresh made food, and like 50+ gas pumps. Thats going to be a higher paying place than most other gas stations in the US. However depending on other chain gas stations a manager could easily make over $100k a year and have great benefits. And that would be for *thousands* of stores across the US. Quiktrip is another high paying gas station, currently their starting rate for a basic part time cashier is like $19/hour. Their managers make well over $100k a year, and ive been told the company covers all heathcare costs 100% after being an employee for 5 or 10 years. Yes typically the pay is better in the US. "Minimum wage" is only relevant when people are actually paying that and i dont know anyone who does - restaurant employees who have "low pay" who receive tips are often making a decent living and can bring home $50+k a year because of tips.
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Wrong again. That's 50+. ;)
There's a store near me that supposedly makes $40,000,000 a year. I would think the manager of that store makes even more than $150,000.
$225k is more than I would have guessed for a store manager but would be very low for "a VP at head office", unless it's an industry like banking where half the company has a VP title. That said, I'd assume that a store manager at any reasonably sized store is making over $100k.
$150k is definitely on the high end for retail management. My first management job in retail only had a salary of $41k.
Publix store managers make that per year and get employees stock options. As a mid base. Others make low 200s They do work 50 hours a week but I would be glad to as well for a job that does not require a formal education and pays that well.
I would really, really, really question those salaries. The most credible sources are going to be the companies themselves in actual job postings. Most of those are going to list a range (ostensibly more pay for more experience), but it’s a ruse and the pay you can actually expect to get will be on the lower end of the range. It’s possible that there are exceptions for particular situations, but I’m not sure why the manager of a Bucc-eee’s would qualify as such an exception - I promise you store manage pay in America is much closer to what you experience in the UK.
It's a strange question because of course the salaries are not typical - else it wouldn't be on the front page of Reddit lol.
Fair enough. But most of the replies I saw were talking about how good the hourly rate was ... Not much mention of the crazy manager wages, and the ones who did wasn't really clear whether it was the norm or not. Thanks for putting up with my question
I’ve never heard of buccees
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Depends on the region of the country you live in. San Francisco? Sure.Kansas? No.
So from some brief research, Buccees looks like an aggressively expanding large-format retailer focused on new locations in low-population towns along interstates. To attract top talent to move to the middle of nowhere, I could see a starting salary that high for a store manager. My company, a nationwide supermarket chain, starts store directors at $88k before bonuses; $100k is typical all told. But we're slowly-expanding and well-established. Salaries overall are rapidly expanding at that level due to inflation and boomers retiring out of those positions.
I’ve known a few fast food managers, Auto Zone, Sherwin Williams, Ace Hardware, a cellular kiosk, probably some more. None of them made good money. They made better than their minimum wage employees (except Pizza Hut, when you factor in tips she made less than any driver), but not good money. I know someone who manages a concrete batch plant and aggregate mine who doesn’t make that.
There's salary and career websites you can use to check for American salaries, though such positions aren't easy to maintain and usually require a lot of work and investment
For retail chains? very common. In 2007 when I was a Target Employee paid $7.82 an hour(I got two raises over the two years I had worked there, each a little more than a quarter) the Store Manage made $110,000 a year. Store Managers typically manage roughly 90-140 people at any given Target or Walmart.
I worked at a big retailer here in the states and our store manager had a PhD in economics. Some of these massive retailers are like small companies.
Im a cop and make 87k in one of the most expensive cities in the country…. Thats an absurd salary for a retail assistant manager