Supporting our partners with competitive pay, shared success incentives and industry leading benefits and opportunity
Our success starts and ends with our coffeehouse partners. Through our “Back to Starbucks” transformation plan, Starbucks continues to invest more than $500M in partners and coffeehouses, strengthening pay, benefits, and partner-first tools that support their work.
Back to Starbucks: investing in our partners
Starting in July, baristas and shift supervisors will have more ways to share in the company’s success. This new program, at the approximately 5% of U.S. locations where partners have a union, will be subject to collective bargaining as required by federal law.
Taken together, these steps provide the potential for partners to receive an extra 5-8% on average, on top of what they receive today.
These updates build on one of the strongest total compensation and benefits packages in retail — available at just 20 hours per week or more—and valued at an average $30 per hour for an hourly role.
Starbucks position on unions
At Starbucks, we are committed to all our partners, and we believe the best way to support them is by listening, responding to their feedback, and making investments that improve their day-to-day experience in our coffeehouses.
Today, approximately 5% of Starbucks U.S. coffeehouses are represented by a union, and Starbucks values its relationship with these partners. Where partners have chosen union representation, we engage in good faith collective bargaining regarding all terms and conditions of employment.