CLOSE The West Coast burger sensation In-N-Out pays store managers an average yearly salary of more than $160,000. USA TODAY
The In-N-Out Burger on Sepulveda Blvd and Westchester Parkway in Los Angeles. (Photo: Robert Hanashiro, USAT)
When thinking of six-figure salaries, flipping burgers may not come to mind. But In-N-Out, the cult favorite fast food chain, sees its store managers earning over $160,000 on average.
“In-N-Out is just eons above everybody else,” Saru Jayaraman, director of UC Berkeley Food Research Center, told the California Sun. “On wages and benefits, they really are the best large chain.”
The Sun first reported In-N-Out's eye-popping figure, which the Irvine, Calif.-based chain confirmed to USA TODAY.
In-N-Out workers can start at $13 an hour (minimum wage is $11 for California's larger companies), and work their way up to that $160,000-ish salary without a college degree.
Managers oversee only one location each, according to the Bay Area's KTVU news, and ultimately become responsible for all aspects of the restaurant, from employee training to the cleanliness of counter tops.
The gig's no cake walk, though: A top review of In-N-Out from an employee on Glassdoor, a jobs listing site, notes a "fast-paced environment" with "very hard" work and "no shortcuts."
In-N-Out Vice President of Operations Denny Warnick told the Sun that quality service requires quality employees with quality pay — a vision of the company's founders, Harry and Esther Snyder.
“Paying their associates well was just one way to help maintain that focus, and those beliefs remain firmly in place with us today,” Warnick told the Sun.
See the full report at the California Sun.
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darkwing42 on September 7th, 2018 at 07:15 UTC »
there are only a few hundred stores, so there are only a few hundred managers. If you're a shift manager, you'll make pretty decent money, when I was a 4th manager about 10 years ago, I made about $35k plus bonuses and that's the lowest that a shift person makes.
However, it's VERY competitive and a lot of politics goes into working as a shift manager at INO and I probably worked 60+ hours a week on shifts ranging from as early as 8AM to as late as 2AM and sometimes I even had to do the overnight cleanup if the cleanup guy called out sick.
Purplekeyboard on September 7th, 2018 at 05:30 UTC »
Not all managers. General managers, meaning the person who runs the restaurant.
If you're the night manager, you aren't making $160,000 a year.
Jekyllhyde on September 7th, 2018 at 04:48 UTC »
they work tons of hours a week, and the job is very stressful.