Safeway Salaries, Bonuses and Benefits.

What are the average starting salaries, bonuses, benefits and travel requirements like at Safeway?

What do you like best about working at Safeway? Are there any great perks or special treats for employees?

Working at Slaveway sucks. You start at just above min. wage which the union dues take most of. There are 0 benifits, 0 discounts, and 0 perks to working there. The management for the most part sucks. You have to act really lame and fake to be appreciated. Don't do it! work somewhere else!

Check out shop.safeway.com/corporate/safeway/careers/why_work_benefits.asp for the real scoop.

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Host said: What are the average starting salaries, bonuses, benefits and travel requirements like at Safeway?

What do you like best about working at Safeway? Are there any great perks or special treats for employees?

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Does anyone know what days Safeway recognizes as Safeway Holidays for their corporate employees? How much sick time do they offer corporate employees?

Has anyone ever worked for Blackhawk? Blackhawk is owned by Safeway.

My boyfriend has worked for Safeway for two years, the union dues are crazy, they charge you initiation fee when you start, and then again when you get a raise. He ended up getting behind and they charged him way too much. They do pay extra for sundays and they count your birthday as a holiday so they can pay well there but otherwise the union makes things difficult.

ok soo yesterday was my birthday...i didn't get any holiday and i've been there for almost two years and here in AK they dont do anything for their employees.

arcticprincess06 in Anchorage, Alaska said: ok soo yesterday was my birthday...i didn't get any holiday and i've been there for almost two years and here in AK they dont do anything for their employees.

Are you employed? Does your check clear every time? Do you risk life and limb each day you report for work and throughout the day? Probably not. Souunds like you've received a present. be greatful and stop complaining. Consider yourself lucky to be employed in this economy.

Anonomous in Delta, British Columbia said: Working at Slaveway sucks. You start at just above min. wage which the union dues take most of. There are 0 benifits, 0 discounts, and 0 perks to working there. The management for the most part sucks. You have to act really lame and fake to be appreciated. Don't do it! work somewhere else!

But you are working right? Check is good every payday? You should quit. There are probably others who would appreciate your job.

I've worked at a Safeway in Washington state for six months now. It's not that bad, we get time and 1/3 every Sunday, time and 1/2 every holiday, and a week's of paid vacation after you work there for a year. Of course, I'm still in high school and I have no bills, so it's a great job for me. I know most of my coworkers who are 25-50 kind of hate their lives working there, but if you're 16-25 it's a good paying job and a fun experience (:

mwr0720@gmail.com in Anaheim, California said: Are you employed? Does your check clear every time? Do you risk life and limb each day you report for work and throughout the day? Probably not. Souunds like you've received a present. be greatful and stop complaining. Consider yourself lucky to be employed in this economy.

I hate to be rude, but your comment is idiotic. I do not work for Safeway, but if they are offering additional pay on birthdays and Sundays, it is completely reasonable to expect that to happen. What low expectations you seem to have for yourself.

Safeway is a solid company to work for as long as you're able and willing to invest some time into the company. From someone who has nearly twenty years of work experience and had to take a retail job until I finally find a better oppertunity, here are the good and bad parts to working for Safeway:

GOOD:

Steady work: I lucked out and ended up at a store that is constantly busy, so my hours are steady - I average 30 hours per week.

Lots of oppertunities: there are new job openings posted quite often, both for in-store and "back stage" (office/Admin) positions. And yes, Safeway would rather hire internally than externally.

Union Benefits: yes, they can cost quite a bit to join, but once you have Union benefits you'll start earning a pension plan and you'll have better coverage than just about any other retail position will ever offer you.

BAD:

It's a Retail job: that means the starting wage is painfully low, you'll never have a set schedule, you'll work nights, weekends and all holidays and you have to deal with the public.

Seniority: it's hard to be the new kid on the block, especially when you encounter a store where people have been working there for ten years or longer. If you're stuck in a store like that, you don't stand a snowball's chance in hell in ever being assigned a weekend or holiday off at random. :\

There aren't any great perks or special treats for working for Safeway, except for a 10% discount on Safeway brand products. Sometimes you might have to travel if you're loaned out to another store. When I was loaned out to another store, if I had to drive for more than twenty miles one way, Safeway compensated me for gas mileage. Contact your HR Department and look into that if you're ever loaned out to another store (and Entry Level people are usually the ones to be loaned out, since we're dirt cheap labor).