What kind of trash is this 2% raise? If you want to reward folks, make up for lost time. I would have hoped at least a 4% was in there. 2% doesn't make up for all the cost of living increases incurred since my last raise. What a bunch of b---s---. I really need to get out of this company.
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My RM is a straight"yes" man. Voicing concerns with him would be career suicide.
Greedy family. job market is booming the best talent leaves first then too late. Too bad because we really are making a difference at FSS but corporate does everything they can to undermine morale. How but cutting PTO? That would teach us!
Has anyone talked to their RM or GVP about how they feel? If sowas the response? If not will you?
No offense to the people from the HO, I'm sure many of them are hardworking. But to think they get paid more than front line managers, without having to deal with the headaches and interference from our campus communities, it's just insulting. This company is nothing without the the stores, and the fills in the stores should be taking home the real salaries, not folks in Chicago who never gave to do any of the actual work that drives all of our revenue.
$79 as mgr HO Westchester IL. You'd be shocked at pay of remaining people at Home Office. Much more than 90% of SM positions. And it's far less work.
Midwest... Follett full time And 2 part time jobs! , all my co- workers work extra jobs. Salaried manager never works 40 hrs!11
I'm a manager in the mid Atlantic. All but one of my team members (including managers) has a second job, and in some cases third job, because the pay here is so terrible.
Westchester IL or Westchester NY?
Also... My CMM is so poorly paid she also works another job on the side.
This is the legacy of RG. Should've stuck with the failure that is Ace Hardware and left us the hell alone.
top 100 g.m and include ed stores need to arrive early for special sessions starting Monday morning. R.M have meetings starting Sunday
ASM wage so low I work a part time job also, leave at 5,on another job site at 5:30, weekends also. How many others out there work 2 jobs lets hear from you.
Our new manager invited to Florida, looking forward to getting away, WHat a Dope.! She doesn't have a clue that it's not Disney vacation! I personally can't wait for the vacation away from the idiot, who hires these people or is this the best they could entice ?
Westchester manager $79k
I know SMs in the greater New York City metropolitan area are making like 40-50k. In a place where the average rents are like $24k a year and state and local taxes are amongst the highest in the nation. F--- you Follett. Pay your people an honest wage, not these b---s--- indentured servant wages. I know many managers in the area working 2-3 jobs. How on Earth is Follett paying full time store managers so little that they have to work 1 or 2 more jobs after their 40+ hours running the campus bookstore?
SM 1 NE 42k
SM 2 in Midwest-36000
Is there any way I can select not to be "selected"? I really don't want to go to Florida just to listen to these morons drone on about nonsense for a week.
I believe the managers that got the registration today are the ones that it will take longer to work out travel arrangements and may need to arrive a day early due to location.
Are you saying only 600 managers have to go to the Homecoming? Can I be one of them? I will volunteer to not go and listen to more crap they are going to promise to do, and not follow through on?
1200 managers didn't get invited to the "homecoming." Only 600 something "select" managers got the invite today. WTF is that about? I guess they had to cut corners to afford the 2 percent raise without affecting the Follett family windfall.
Haha, that would be awesome. 1200 managers, flights booked... And everyone just stays home. The only people who would be in Florida would be the upper echelons, who are the only people the cheap a-- Follett family cares about (and pays) anyway.
Why wait for rush. Let’s start the first day of the SM meeting.
What would Follett do if all the store managers went on strike? A nice little strike the first week of fall rush. They apparently don't value is and don't think we're worth a decent wage. Why don't we band together and show them just how much our services are needed?
40k for 4 locations? You're getting robbed!!!
I want to say SM2 in the Northeast averages low to mid 50s. Definitely lower than other bookstore operators.
I'm a Sm2 of a store group with 4 locations 3 FT and 1 PT lower volume higher headache, 40k...
In the south east it's a crap shoot. SM II mid range was 38. SM I was about 32. At one point when I got out of the MIT program they contacted me about a position in Key West with a pay of 31. I laughed at them and told them that it is impossible to work there for that little. They countered with 33. Told them I couldn't done the closest place with base rent under 1250 per month was Key Largo.
It depends on the region. SM1 $40000 SM 2 $48000 here.
Some of those are high. What market/geographic region are they from?
Salaries that I am aware of:
CM/DM ~ 42K
ASM ~ 38K
SM1 ~ 45K
SM2 ~ 60K
SM3 ~ 65K
What do you guys have?
Geographic location and store volume make a huge difference in manager salaries
As a BN manager I made mid $90k 10 years ago, and one reason I left was other managers in my region with comp stores made between $100-$110k. My base bonus was 20% of salary, and I commonly got escalators that bumped me to 30%.
A couple of managers of much smaller stores of about $1 million had salaries of just over $40k. I think small stores like that has base bonus of 10%.
I can tell you that at least for larger accounts, B&N pays managers significantly more. I know of one case where a transitioning manager makes just 60% of what the outgoing B&N manager was making. And the B&N manager's base bonus was worth several TIMES more than the Follett bonus. This pay problem isn't symbolic of an issue in retail, or even college retail. It is 100% a Follett thing.
SMs making $70k? Jeez I really gotta get outta here. I'm making half that, and since I'm a small store, I do EVERYTHING myself.
SM making $50,000. Do you think that is high? I don't.
I make over that, there are managers in my region making over $70,000+bonus
My kids are a couple Yeats out of college and make more than me.
SM making $50,000/ year? LOL, who’s that?
That's all you are going to get folks. All the whining and complaining in the world will not get you a bigger raise, so either shut-up and stay or seek another job elsewhere.
Then you should go work for Chic Fil A. Don’t let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya on the way out.
This'll make you sick to your stomach. If you're a store manager and make 50,000 a year, probably less but let's just go hypothetical. But let's say you make 50,000 a year. A 2% raise comes out to 1,000. Now a standard work year is 2000 hrs. That means you got yourself at fat 0.50 an hour raise. But you don't work 40 hrs a week. In fact over the year you work 50hrs a week, this is being very conservative. That means you actually work 2500 hrs a year. And if you got paid overtime then you would be paid for 2750 hours a year. That means your 2% raise at a 50,000 a year salary would come out to a raise of 0.36 an hour raise. To make you even more sick to your stomach, my nephew just got his yearly raise at Chic Fil A of 0.50 an hour. That's right folks, home office values you less than a part time fast food worker.
We are retail, but shouldn't be compared to traditional retail or big box, because we are not. No other traditional retail has to do what we do. Other retail managers deal with their paying customers, their staff, and their boss (or company). They do not have to deal with faculty, administration, admins, ect., they are not required to be selling company programs to a campus, they do not turn over 100 % of their inventory every semester, have the majority of their staff leave for holiday break, spring break, summer break. So maybe we are retail, but if we did the same job but were institutionally run, we would be considered department directors/head of a department, which would fall under a department administrator.
I rather have an additional 2% than not having it. I rather work at another company, too. I control my destiny in one of the two.