Worker-Submitted Data Shows Trader Joe's Pay Ranges in 2026

A crowd-sourced profile of Trader Joe’s pay and benefits on the employment site Breakroom was updated on Jan. 2, 2026, presenting aggregated responses from about 597 current and former employees that shed light on pay scales and workplace practices at the grocery chain.

The page lists reported hourly pay ranges for common roles: crew members at $18.50 to $28.67 per hour, managers at $27.55 to $44.90 per hour, and assistant managers at $29.12 to $42.37 per hour. The profile also notes a staff discount of roughly 20 percent, that pay is delivered hourly, and that breaks are “Sometimes” paid. Multiple fields on the profile carry recent timestamps, including updates on Jan. 2, 2026 and Dec. 31, 2025.

Breakroom’s profile is unclaimed by Trader Joe’s and is an aggregation of worker-submitted answers rather than an official company disclosure. That makes it a practical snapshot for employees and job seekers but also one with important caveats: the figures reflect self-reported experience from several hundred respondents and can reflect regional differences, tenure, store-level policies and the mix of full-time and part-time roles. Because the profile is user-run, individual pay at any given store may fall outside the ranges shown.

The page’s entries on paid sick leave underscore a key workplace concern. Breakroom reports “No. Most people don’t get paid when they’re sick at Trader Joe’s” based on user responses, suggesting a pattern of unpaid sick days or inconsistent sick-pay practices as experienced by respondents. For workers, the combination of hourly pay, uneven break pay and limited paid sick leave can affect both household finances and on-the-job decisions about coming to work while ill. Those dynamics also have implications for staffing flexibility and store operations during illness spikes.

For employees and prospective hires, the profile provides an accessible yardstick to compare offer letters and to gauge whether local pay aligns with peer reports. For managers and corporate leaders, the data signals where employees perceive shortfalls or inconsistencies in treatment across locations. As a worker-facing resource updated at the start of 2026, the Breakroom page functions as a decentralized barometer of compensation and workplace norms at Trader Joe’s, even as its unclaimed, user-compiled nature requires careful interpretation.