Target Raises Starting Pay Again After Seeing Better Job Candidates

NEW YORK (AP) – Target is raising its minimum starting pay for workers for the second time in less than a year after seeing a bigger and better pool of candidates.
The Minneapolis retailer, which hiked starting pay to $11 an hour last fall, said all workers this spring will receive a minimum of $12 per hour.
Target said in September that it planned to raise starting hourly pay to $15 an hour by 2020.
On Tuesday, CEO Brian Cornell said that the number of job applicants rose by 60 percent in