CHARLOTTE – Charter Communications, the Connecticut-based broadband company and cable operator behind the Spectrum products, is hiring more employees in North Carolina. The starting wage will be no less than $18 per hour for all roles, the company announced yesterday, and the company will raise its minimum wage to $20 per hour in 2022.
The new hire target total is 270.
“Virtually all current and newly hired salaried and hourly employees will now earn at least $18 an hour, including target commissions,” the company said.
Charter established a $15 per hour minimum wage in 2018 and had previously announced last April that it would increase the hourly wage to at least $20 per hour for all employees in 2022.
The company has some 11,200 employees in NC.
The job openings are listed online.
Charter announced last week that it will expand high-speed internet to approximately 128,000 homes and small businesses in North Carolina where broadband is not available as a part of a multi-year $442 million project.
That project, which is receiving $142 million from the federal government as a part of the FCC’s Rural Digital Opportunity plan, is set for completion within the next six years. According to the North Carolina Broadband Infrastructure Office, approximately 5 percent of households in the state lack access to broadband.
According to Charter, its program will reach 83 of the state’s 100 counties, including 12 not served currently by the company, and 83% of the sites in areas selected for the FCC plan. Service will be expanded in 67 rural counties. Half of the sites to be reached are located in 38 of the state’s 40 “most economically distressed counties,” Spectrum noted.
