Dollar General pay bands revealed, 87,632 U.S. jobs listed, Breakroom says

For a Dollar General worker trying to gauge the next paycheck, the most concrete numbers are on Breakroom’s updated pay page: sales associates are reported at $10.00 to $15.75 an hour, assistant managers at $13.50 to $18.87, and the site says most workers do not get paid breaks and generally do not get paid sick leave. The page was last updated April 12, 2026, 4,247 Dollar General workers had taken the Breakroom Quiz, and Breakroom said it had 87,632 Dollar General job openings in its U.S. database.

The other role bands fill in the rest of the store ladder. Breakroom lists cashiers at $10.00 to $15.70 an hour, key holders at $11.00 to $15.75, lead retail sales associates at $11.00 to $16.32 and stockers at $10.00 to $14.95. Managers move out of hourly pay and into salary territory, with a reported range of $45.5 thousand to $61.5 thousand a year. The pay spread is not huge at the bottom of the store, which helps explain why a few cents an hour, a cut in hours or a missed break can hit hard when shifts are short and every task falls on a small crew.

Breakroom also says workers are paid by the hour and rarely report unpaid extra work, a signal that matters in a business where store labor is compressed and employees often juggle cashiering, stocking and customer service in the same shift. That context sits inside Dollar General’s much larger footprint. The company said it had 194,200 employees as of January 31, 2025, and reported 20,746 Dollar General, DG Market, DGX and pOpshelf stores in the United States, plus Mi Súper Dollar General stores in Mexico, as of August 1, 2025.

Dollar General’s own employee materials stress advancement, saying 74% of promotions in 2023 came from within and that workers completed 5.5 million training courses that year. For associates comparing a cashier job with a key-holder or assistant manager role, that internal-promotion message matters, but so does the reality that the higher titles bring more responsibility before they bring much financial breathing room.

Safety remains part of the same picture. On July 11, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor said Dollar General agreed to pay $12 million in penalties and make corporate-wide safety changes after an OSHA settlement. The agreement called for more safety management, employee participation on a safety committee, training for managers and non-managers, and faster fixes for hazards such as blocked exits, electrical-panel problems and improper storage. In a chain this large, pay, staffing and safety are tied together on every shift.