(Reuters) – Best Buy Inc <BBY.N> said on Tuesday that it would raise hourly wages for its employees by 4%, replacing its short-term incentive pay it introduced during the pandemic, from Aug. 2.
The company also said it would raise the starting wage to $15 per hour.
Best Buy said that quarter-to-date sales rose about 2.5% from a year earlier, driven by strong demand for computing, appliance and tablet categories.
(Reporting by Praveen Paramasivam in Bengaluru; Editing by Ramakrishnan M.)
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