article_snippet.sent: The world's highest-grossing fast food chain will be sharing a little more of The world's highest-grossing fast food chain revenue with The world's highest-grossing fast food chain workers, as McDonald revealed plans to raise wages at McDonald restaurants across the US.
article_snippet.sent: McDonald announced Wednesday that McDonald will increase starting wages for full- and part-time employees to a dollar over the minimum wage where company-owned restaurants operate.
article_snippet.sent: McDonald said it will increase starting wages for full- and part-time employees to a dollar over the minimum wage where company-owned restaurants operate will be instituted starting July 1.
article_snippet.sent: McDonald expects the average wage to be more than $10 an hour by the end of 2016, up from the current rate of $9 an hour.
article_snippet.sent: Fattening paychecks: McDonald announced Wednesday that McDonald will raise starting wages at McDonald restaurants to a dollar over minimum wage beginning July 1 .
article_snippet.sent: McDonald's USA owns about 10 percent of the more than 14,300 McDonald's restaurants across the country, with the rest operated as franchises that will not be subject to the pay increases.
article_snippet.sent: The burger brand joins other large corporations raising basic pay against a backdrop of an improving economy and public pressure to increase wages.
article_snippet.sent: McDonald's USA President Mike Andres told the Associated Press that only a handful of McDonald's employees joined the demonstrations and that only a handful of McDonald's employees didn't affect the company's reputation.
highlights_snippet.sent: The fast food chain will pay a dollar over minimum wage at The fast food chain company-owned restaurants .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: The pay hike will not affect franchise restaurants, which account for 90 percent of McDonald's locations .
  