I worked at Radioshack last summer.
You could make 8 dollars an hour, depending on how busy of a store it is. However, the fact that you're being paid 5.25 and not 5.15 I believe means that it's a little store and you won't be paid as much. You'll get $5.25, plus the $25 for selling wireless and other items, and you'll also get the "monthly sales gain bonus." If the store had a percentage gain of 5% or more from the corresponding month of the previous year, you receive the percentage sales gain as a bonus in 5% increments.
If it's a store like that, I'd expect to make between $6.50 and $7.00 once you get in the swing of things. You can do much better if it's a store that pays real commission. Larger stores will give you a certain percentage of every single sale you make as comission. If the hourly average of this is greater than 5.15, you get paid the commission amount. This can be much better than $7.00 in a big store.
Take the job. It's easy. As long as the people in the store are decent human beings, you'll have a good time.
As for the person wondering about being a manager at Radioshack, don't do it! At the little store I worked at, the manager made about $22,000 a year for working a 60 hour week, before he was overcharged for insurance and other benefits. He actually got paid a very similar amount as the employees, only with much more responsibilities and duties.
Feel free to PM if you have any questions. Oh, and the employee discount as a whole sucks, but the wireless discounts are very nice. I'm still on the Verizon plan, it's $20.00 a month for 750 anytime minutes and 500 night and weekend, with lots of text messages, mobile internet, and the works. The Sprint employee plan is even better, if Sprint is better than Verizon in your area. You can stay on the employee plan after you quit indefinitely, too.
You could make 8 dollars an hour, depending on how busy of a store it is. However, the fact that you're being paid 5.25 and not 5.15 I believe means that it's a little store and you won't be paid as much. You'll get $5.25, plus the $25 for selling wireless and other items, and you'll also get the "monthly sales gain bonus." If the store had a percentage gain of 5% or more from the corresponding month of the previous year, you receive the percentage sales gain as a bonus in 5% increments.
If it's a store like that, I'd expect to make between $6.50 and $7.00 once you get in the swing of things. You can do much better if it's a store that pays real commission. Larger stores will give you a certain percentage of every single sale you make as comission. If the hourly average of this is greater than 5.15, you get paid the commission amount. This can be much better than $7.00 in a big store.
Take the job. It's easy. As long as the people in the store are decent human beings, you'll have a good time.
As for the person wondering about being a manager at Radioshack, don't do it! At the little store I worked at, the manager made about $22,000 a year for working a 60 hour week, before he was overcharged for insurance and other benefits. He actually got paid a very similar amount as the employees, only with much more responsibilities and duties.
Feel free to PM if you have any questions. Oh, and the employee discount as a whole sucks, but the wireless discounts are very nice. I'm still on the Verizon plan, it's $20.00 a month for 750 anytime minutes and 500 night and weekend, with lots of text messages, mobile internet, and the works. The Sprint employee plan is even better, if Sprint is better than Verizon in your area. You can stay on the employee plan after you quit indefinitely, too.
