As pressure from labor groups builds, Target followed in the steps of TJX and Walmart and announced that it would raise its base wage for employees to $9 an hour. This wage increase is well above the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. Target employs over 347,000 workers within the United States.
See "Target Plans to Raise Pay to at Least $9 an Hour", Hiroko Tabuchi, The New York Times, March 18, 2015