Disney Hourly Salaries

[cmash95]

also the starting lowest wage is going up to 10.00 an hour and all other wages will be adjusted acordingly.

 

[disneynutz]

Disney outsources some cafeteria workers, they are paid very little and a couple of them reportedly live in their cars.

Bill

 

[Srbright]

Disney is great at importing workers from other countries, getting college program temp workers and charging them to stay in Disney housing and making many of the jobs part time to reduce pay and benefits. They also like to outsource many of the positions and contract to outside companies like the food kiosks and restaurants at DS. They collect lease money and a percentage of income by only being a landlord.

Bill

Sounds like a sound way to make money; which isn't surprising considering that they are in business for the sole purpose of making money.

Stacy

 

[Srbright]

Disney outsources some cafeteria workers, they are paid very little and a couple of them reportedly live in their cars.

Bill

I've worked jobs where we had people living in their cars. It's a sad story but that doesn't mean that they need to get paid more.

Stacy

 

[SureAsLiz]

i dont know where you got your info because most interns in centeral florida are not paid. employers figure that experience is better than pay. my son interned in three different jobs and never got any money and these were for for profit corporations and he wasn't shadowing anyone. he actually did alot of the grunt work

http://www.lawforchange.org/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=3547

If someone works and provides value to a company, then they need to be paid. This applies to internships, on the job training, and similar scenarios.
If your son received school credit, then it's possible they used that as a ~payment~ but even that stands on shaky ground.

 

[ponyboy]

A business is created to generate a profit for the owners (shareholders), it's not created to give people jobs. Creating jobs is just a byproduct of generating larger amounts of profit. This whole, "people deserve more money" stuff is the problem with society today. People aren't "owed" or "deserve" anything. If you want something then get out there and work for it. Just because someone manually works hard in a zero skill position that anyone off of the street can fill doesn't mean that they deserve an inordinate amount of pay.

As a consumer you wouldn't pay a premium for some ordinary, run of the mill product made in China that every store in the world has bins full of because that wouldn't make economic sense. So why should an employer pay a premium for some ordinary run of the mill worker that could be replaced at any time for a position that requires very minimal training?

As with anything else, the job market is based upon supply and demand. If a person has no education or skills then there is going to be very low demand for their services because just about anybody on the planet could do that job. If a person wants to make more than minimum or just above minimum wage then they need to increase their value to a potential employer through education, training, experience, etc. The more training, experience and education a person has the rarer they are in the job market and the more value that is placed on them so in turn they will earn a higher wage.

We live in an age when we teach all of the children that everyone is special and that everyone gets a trophy and no matter had bad they've actually done we tell them that they're doing good. They are young and impressionable and believe all of this stuff and then are blindsided when they have to actually face the real world and find out that they aren't special and that they aren't going to be rewarded if they don't do a good job. Then the next thing you know they're protesting because they think they "deserve" $15 and hour for a job that is soon going to be obsoleted by robots or machines that will work day and night, without complaining or calling in sick and will do a perfect job every single time and will follow every single order exactly.

If you think times are tough now for the unskilled workers, just wait. As technology gets smaller and cheaper and automation becomes more common place and our government hits it's spending limit and can't borrow more money to spend on welfare people are going to be begging for $10/hr manual labor jobs but there won't be any. They'll have been replaced with cheaper, more reliable machines that do better jobs and don't protest because they think they "deserve" something for free.

 

[DVCcurious]

Some people are so greedy. But I am a very generous person. I think it's obvious that the CEO/CFO/COO/CDO/etc salaries should be dramatically reduced and the money given to these low level employees. These CXO's are so selfish to demand such high salaries. If everyone was generous, like some of us in this country, then the CEO's would voluntarily give their money to the low level people. But we know they won't. That's why we need higher tax rates. Take that money and use it to provide more benefits to the lower-wage hard working people. It feels good to be a generous person. It's too bad like half the country is so selfish.

 

[goodhartc]

This is an easy read article on what's going on in the American economy right now. It explains a bit about what happens to the economy as a whole when company's only concern is value to shareholders. There are long term consequences folks.https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/time-better-capitalism-henry-blodget

 

[Madteaparty001]

This is an easy read article on what's going on in the American economy right now. It explains a bit about what happens to the economy as a whole when company's only concern is value to shareholders. There are long term consequences folks.https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/time-better-capitalism-henry-blodget

That article says everything I was trying to say, thanks likex1000. To people saying those in unskilled jobs should just learn skills if they want to make enough money to live off of. Sure let's go with that, now everyone has very specialized skills, but now there are no maids, no garbage men, no construction workers, no waiters or cashiers. What is your solution for filling these rolls? If we aren't willing to pay them a livable wage why would anyone work them when they could just learn a skill and magically get a well paying job?

 

[MaryLovesPoohBear]

That article says everything I was trying to say, thanks likex1000. To people saying those in unskilled jobs should just learn skills if they want to make enough money to live off of. Sure let's go with that, now everyone has very specialized skills, but now there are no maids, no garbage men, no construction workers, no waiters or cashiers. What is your solution for filling these rolls? If we aren't willing to pay them a livable wage why would anyone work them when they could just learn a skill and magically get a well paying job?

What do you consider a "livable wage?" Does the same definition work for everyone? Does the high school student have to make a "livable wage?"

And why would people work jobs that don't require a specialized skill? Because skills aren't learned magically. They take time and effort. Some take intelligence. And many take schooling, which takes cash.

People wouldn't all move up at the same time. "Everyone" wouldn't gain those specialized skills all at the same time. And when those people did move up, younger people, without those specialized skills would move into those jobs.

 

[LeeAndRobin]

I think it's obvious that the CEO/CFO/COO/CDO/etc salaries should be dramatically reduced and the money given to these low level employees.

Ok, let's do a little math to see what kind of raise the employees of Disney might get if this plan were implemented.

Some data:

Number of employees at the Walt Disney Company: 180,000 (in 2014)
Total salary of the top 6 Disney execs: 101,052,561

If we divide the salary total by the total number of workers, we get about $561.40 per employee per year. Divide by 40 x 52 for a full time job, and you've got a whopping $0.27/hour raise. That's right sports fans, 27 cents per hour raise if all the "evil" "overpaid" execs decide to work for free and all that money goes to the employees.

So what's your next brilliant plan to raise the salaries of the downtrodden workers?

 

[disneynutz]

You can add some of the 9 billion dollars profit from the last 12 months and pull back some of the money banked in foreign countries.

Bill

 

[dlavender]

Ok, let's do a little math to see what kind of raise the employees of Disney might get if this plan were implemented.

Some data:

Number of employees at the Walt Disney Company: 180,000 (in 2014)
Total salary of the top 6 Disney execs: 101,052,561

If we divide the salary total by the total number of workers, we get about $561.40 per employee per year. Divide by 40 x 52 for a full time job, and you've got a whopping $0.27/hour raise. That's right sports fans, 27 cents per hour raise if all the "evil" "overpaid" execs decide to work for free and all that money goes to the employees.

So what's your next brilliant plan to raise the salaries of the downtrodden workers?

You can add some of the 9 billion dollars profit from the last 12 months and pull back some of the money banked in foreign countries.

Bill

I think Bill answered you.

If the C level group doesn't show up next week, what happens to the parks?

If the bottom level group (making less than 40k) doesn't show up next, what happens to the parks?

Tell me which group is more important?

Tell me which group is viewed as more important?

 

[LeeAndRobin]

You can add some of the 9 billion dollars profit from the last 12 months and pull back some of the money banked in foreign countries.

Bill

True, but the poster stated the old saw about how if the top execs would just take a lower salary, everyone would get a nice raise. It's not true. Not with Disney, not with Boeing, not with any company of any size. I was just addressing this common misconception.

 

[Jeff_G]

You can add some of the 9 billion dollars profit from the last 12 months and pull back some of the money banked in foreign countries.

Bill

Publicly traded companies do not work that way. They are legally required to distribute that profit back to the various shareholders, they didn't stuff that 9 billion dollars under Cinderella's mattress.
There are three things a corporation can do with "profit", they can reinvest it into the company, save some as excess cash and all the rest gets distributed. The decision on how much profit to distribute back to the shareholders are determined but its board.

You can see who the board of directors for Disney is here https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/about/ most are CEO and COOs from other companies (facebook, Starbucks, twitter, blackberry) and investment firms.

 

[disneynutz]

Publicly traded companies do not work that way. They are legally required to distribute that profit back to the various shareholders, they didn't stuff that 9 billion dollars under Cinderella's mattress.
There are three things a corporation can do with "profit", they can reinvest it into the company, save some as excess cash and all the rest gets distributed. The decision on how much profit to distribute back to the shareholders are determined but its board.

You can see who the board of directors for Disney is here https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/about/ most are CEO and COOs from other companies (facebook, Starbucks, twitter, blackberry) and investment firms.

They don't need to use the profit, just increase some wages which will reduce the profit. Despite what we may think about the magic of Disney, thinking about working there is much different that actually working there. Talking to CM's over the years paints a much different picture of what goes on backstage. Many were moved to part time with some only working a few hours a week. That is one of the reasons that we see older workers in the parks, they were retired and working at Disney is better than not working at all.

Bill

 

[bashuck]

Some people are so greedy. But I am a very generous person. I think it's obvious that the CEO/CFO/COO/CDO/etc salaries should be dramatically reduced and the money given to these low level employees. These CXO's are so selfish to demand such high salaries. If everyone was generous, like some of us in this country, then the CEO's would voluntarily give their money to the low level people. But we know they won't. That's why we need higher tax rates. Take that money and use it to provide more benefits to the lower-wage hard working people. It feels good to be a generous person. It's too bad like half the country is so selfish.

You may be very generous, but being willing to distribute the salary of people other than yourself to others isn't a sign of it. Charitable contributions and the like are. These execs may or may not be generous people. Having a massive salary isn't a sign of not being generous.

 

[ponyboy]

Some people are so greedy. But I am a very generous person. I think it's obvious that the CEO/CFO/COO/CDO/etc salaries should be dramatically reduced and the money given to these low level employees. These CXO's are so selfish to demand such high salaries. If everyone was generous, like some of us in this country, then the CEO's would voluntarily give their money to the low level people. But we know they won't. That's why we need higher tax rates. Take that money and use it to provide more benefits to the lower-wage hard working people. It feels good to be a generous person. It's too bad like half the country is so selfish.

It sounds like you're very generous with other people's money. And then your thoughts on taking money that people earned through force and distributing it to others? That's a whole nother discussion.

 

[ponyboy]

Having a massive salary isn't a sign of not being generous.

I have a friend on the Forbes list that's one of those greedy CEO's. He gives away millions of dollars a year. Millions and millions and millions. He does a lot of charity work, donates the use of his facilities and all kinds of other stuff that most people will never hear about because he doesn't want the attention. He's one of the nicest down to earth guys you'll meet and if you just met him you'd never know he was worth billions.

 

[cmash95]

those third party workers are the ones that work in the CM cafeterias and are not paid by disney. I think the only other third party food workers work over in the food court at corado springs. and those are not paid by disney they are paid by their employer so you can't blame disney for them.