Dollar General Corporation is a publicly traded company with headquarters in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, United States. As of 2018, the company has over 13,000 stores in 49 states. Dollar General is the largest discount store chain in the United States.
Dollar General’s annual revenue was $40.5 billion in 2018.
The median wage for Dollar General employees as of 2018 was $15.92 per hour, which is lower than the median wage for all retail employees in the United States.
The company has been criticized for paying its employees low wages and for making it difficult for employees to unionize. As of December 2018, the company had a rating of “B” from the Better Business Bureau.
According to a study by the Economic Policy Institute, the top 1 percent of Dollar General employees earned an average of $343,000 in 2018, while the bottom 50 percent of employees earned an average of $10,000. The study found that the median wage of Dollar General employees is 60 percent of the median wage of all retail employees.
