Walmart is offering truckers a starting salary between $95,000 to $110,000 a year, as retailers scramble to shore up supply-chain capabilities

• Walmart is raising its starting salaries for truck drivers in its private fleet.
• Previously, the average starting annual salary for these truckers was around $87,500.

Walmart is shifting its pay structure so that its drivers can earn up to $110,000 in their first year with the retailer, as it strives to shore up its logistics capabilities with new investments.

Previously, the average starting salary for Walmart's truck drivers had been $87,500. Now, it ranges between $95,000 and $110,000. In a blog $4 from senior vice president of transportation Fernando Cortes and senior vice president of supply chain people Karisa Sprague, the Walmart executives wrote that "drivers who have been with Walmart longer can earn even more, based on factors like tenure and location."

Walmart's new starting pay range for truckers is nearly double the average truck driver's salary of $50,340 per year, according to $4

The salary spike for truckers is just the latest effort from the Arkansas-based retail giant to set up more $4 to allow for internal promotion from Walmart's huge labor pool. Walmart currently employs 12,000 drivers, and a total workforce of 1.6 million in the United States alone.

In additional to increasing truckers' pay range, Walmart has also launched a "Private Fleet Development Program" to establish a pipeline between supply-chain jobs and trucking positions. The 12-week development program features classes from already-established Walmart truckers. Inaugural classes graduated in Dallas, Texas and Dover, Delaware this year, with participants earning commercial driver's licenses and getting hired into Walmart's private fleet.

Walmart is one of many retailers working to attract more truck drivers. Last year, the company $4 truckers an $8,000 sign-on bonus, joining several transportation companies that gave new drivers $4

Earlier this year, the American Trucking Association reported that there is a $4. Truckers move about $4 in the US and trucking capacity has been $4 as a contributing factor to the $4 — which has spawned $4 and $4.

Even the White House has $4 to help bring more truck drivers into the industry. On Monday, President Joe Biden $4 his administration's $4 had helped push employment levels in the industry past pre-pandemic levels.

$4 that trucking companies have begun recruiting drivers at gas stations and convenience stores, as well as offering perks like luxury truck stops with masseurs and pet-bathing stations.