The annual salary of a McDonald’s employee ranges from $7.25 to $10 per hour, with the average hourly rate being about $8.50. The average annual salary for a McDonald’s employee is around $15,700.

McDonald’s employees receive paid time off, including holidays and sick days, as well as medical benefits.

It’s no surprise that a McDonald’s crew member earns a relatively low salary. The company has its roots in fast food, and fast food is known for not paying its employees very much.

There are some benefits that come with being a crew member at McDonald’s, however. For instance, you can get free uniforms and shoes from the company, as well as free meals while you’re on the job. In addition to this, you’ll also get paid time off for holidays, which is always nice if you’re planning to travel during the holiday season!

Annual Salary At Mcdonalds

McDonald’s Corporation is an American-based multinational fast food chain, founded in 1940 as a restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald, in San Bernardino, California, United States. They rechristened their business as a hamburger stand, and later turned the company into a franchise, with the Golden Arches logo being introduced in 1953 at a location in Phoenix, Arizona. In 1955, Ray Kroc, a businessman, joined the company as a franchise agent and proceeded to purchase the chain from the McDonald brothers. McDonald’s had its previous headquarters in Oak Brook, Illinois, but moved its global headquarters to Chicago in June 2018.^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]

McDonald’s is the world’s largest restaurant chain by revenue,^[13] serving over 69 million customers daily in over 100 countries^[14] across 37,855 outlets as of 2018.^[15]^[16] McDonald’s is best known for its hamburgers, cheeseburgers and french fries, although their menus include other items like chicken, fish, fruit, and salads. The company has been the recipient of negative backlash because of the unhealthiness of their food.^[17] The McDonald’s Corporation revenues come from the rent, royalties, and fees paid by the franchisees, as well as sales in company-operated restaurants. According to two reports published in 2018, McDonald’s is the world’s second-largest private employer with 1.7 million employees (behind Walmart with 2.3 million employees).^[18]^[19] As of 2020, McDonald’s has the ninth-highest global brand valuation.^[20]

History

Main article: History of McDonald’s

The oldest operating McDonald’s restaurant is the third one built, opened in 1953. It is located at 10207 Lakewood Blvd. at Florence Ave. in Downey, California (at 33.9471°N 118.1182°W).

Siblings Richard and Maurice McDonald opened the first McDonald’s at 1398 North E Street at West 14th Street in San Bernardino, California (at 34.1255°N 117.2946°W), on May 15, 1940. The brothers introduced the “Speedee Service System” in 1948, putting into expanded use the principles of the modern fast-food restaurant that their predecessor White Castle had put into practice more than two decades earlier.^[21]^[22] The original mascot of McDonald’s was a chef hat on top of a hamburger who was referred to as “Speedee”.^[23] In 1962, the Golden Arches replaced Speedee as the universal mascot. The mascot, clown Ronald McDonald, was introduced in 1965. He appeared in advertising to target their audience of children.^[24]

Logo from 1940 until 1948

Logo from 1948 until 1953

Logo from 1953 until 1960

On May 4, 1961, McDonald’s first filed for a U.S. trademark on the name “McDonald’s” with the description “Drive-In Restaurant Services”, which continues to be renewed. By September 13, McDonald’s, under the guidance of Ray Kroc, filed for a trademark on a new logo—an overlapping, double-arched “M” symbol. But before the double arches, McDonald’s used a single arch for the architecture of their buildings. Although the “Golden Arches” logo appeared in various forms, the present version was not used until November 18, 1968, when the company was favored a U.S. trademark.

The present corporation credits its founding to franchised businessman Ray Kroc on April 15, 1955.^[25] This was in fact the ninth opened McDonald’s restaurant overall, although this location was destroyed and rebuilt in 1984.^{[clarification needed]} Kroc was recorded as being an aggressive business partner, driving the McDonald brothers out of the industry.^[26]

Kroc and the McDonald brothers fought for control of the business, as documented in Kroc’s autobiography. In 1961, he purchased the McDonald brothers’ equity in the company and began the company’s worldwide reach.^[27] The sale cost Kroc $2.7 million, a huge sum during that time.^[26] The San Bernardino restaurant was eventually torn down in 1971, and the site was sold to the Juan Pollo chain in 1998. This area serves as headquarters for the Juan Pollo chain, and a McDonald’s and Route 66 museum.^[28] With the expansion of McDonald’s into many international markets, the company has become a symbol of globalization and the spread of the American way of life. Its prominence has made it a frequent topic of public debates about obesity, corporate ethics, and consumer responsibility.

Products

Main article: List of McDonald’s products

French fries, a soft drink, McSpicy Chicken Fillet, and tomato ketchup packet

McDonald’s predominantly sells hamburgers, various types of chicken, chicken sandwiches, French fries, soft drinks, breakfast items, and desserts. In most markets, McDonald’s offers salads and vegetarian items, wraps and other localized fare. On a seasonal basis, McDonald’s offers the McRib sandwich. Some speculate the seasonality of the McRib adds to its appeal.^[29]

In addition, the chain also sells some items within the United States on a regional bases; for example, the Hatch Green Chile Double Cheeseburger, which is topped with New Mexico green chile, is only available in the southwestern state of New Mexico.^[30]^[31]

Products are offered as either “dine-in” (where the customer opts to eat in the restaurant) or “take-out” (where the customer opts to take the food off the premises). “Dine-in” meals are provided on a plastic tray with a paper insert on the floor of the tray. “Take-out” meals are usually delivered with the contents enclosed in a distinctive McDonald’s-branded brown paper bag. In both cases, the individual items are wrapped or boxed as appropriate.

Since Steve Easterbrook became CEO of the company, McDonald’s has streamlined the menu which in the United States contained nearly 200 items. The company has looked to introduce healthier options, and removed high-fructose corn syrup from hamburger buns. The company has removed artificial preservatives from Chicken McNuggets,^[32] replacing chicken skin, safflower oil and citric acid found in Chicken McNuggets with pea starch, rice starch and powdered lemon juice.^[33]

In September 2018, McDonald’s USA announced that they no longer use artificial preservatives, flavors and colors entirely from seven classic burgers sold in the U.S., including the hamburger, cheeseburger, double cheeseburger, McDouble, Quarter Pounder with Cheese, double Quarter Pounder with Cheese and the Big Mac.^[34]^[35] Nevertheless, the pickles will still be made with an artificial preservative, although customers can choose to opt out of getting pickles with their burgers.^[36]^[37]

In November 2020, McDonald’s announced McPlant, a plant-based burger, along with plans to develop additional meat alternative menu items that extend to chicken substitutes and breakfast sandwiches.^[38]^[39] This announcement came after the successful testing of Beyond Meat plant based meat substitutes.

International menu variations

A Croque McDo from France

McDonald’s Menu are different in their countries. Restaurants in several countries, particularly in Asia, serve soup. This local deviation from the standard menu is a characteristic for which the chain is particularly known, and one which is employed either to abide by regional food taboos (such as the religious prohibition of beef consumption in India) or to make available foods with which the regional market is more familiar (such as the sale of McRice in Indonesia, or Ebi (prawn) Burger in Singapore and Japan).

In Germany and some other Western European countries, McDonald’s sells beer. In New Zealand, McDonald’s sells meat pies, after local affiliate McDonald’s New Zealand partially relaunched the Georgie Pie fast food chain it bought out in 1996.^[40] In Greece, the signature hamburger, Big Mac, is changed by adding Tzatziki sauce and packaging in a pita.^[41]

In the United States and Canada, after limited trials on a regional basis, McDonald’s began offering in 2015^[42] and 2017,^[43] respectively, a partial breakfast menu during all hours its restaurants were open. All-day breakfast was phased out from menus during the COVID-19 pandemic.^[44]

Restaurants

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There are over 36,000 McDonald’s restaurants globally. Over a third of these (14,146 restaurants) are in the United States alone – the second highest number is in Japan with 2,975 restaurants, followed by China with 2,700. These three countries make up a majority of global McDonald’s stores.^[45]

Types of restaurants

Most standalone McDonald’s restaurants offer both counter service and drive-through service, with indoor and sometimes outdoor seating.^[46] Drive-Thru, Auto-Mac, Pay and Drive, or “McDrive” as it is known in many countries, often has separate stations for placing, paying for, and picking up orders, though the latter two steps are frequently combined;^[46] it was first introduced in Sierra Vista, Arizona in 1975,^[47] following the lead of other fast-food chains. The first such restaurant in Britain opened at Fallowfield, Manchester in 1986.^[48]

In 1994, McDonald’s attempted Hearth Express, a prototype specializing in homestyle takeout meals. Among the fare offered were meatloaf, fried chicken, and baked ham. This experiment started with a single location in Darien, Illinois, but closed in only one year.^[49]

McDrive

In some countries, McDrive locations near highways offer no counter service or seating.^[50] In contrast, locations in high-density city neighborhoods often omit drive-through service.^[51] There are also a few locations, mostly in downtown districts, that offer a “Walk-Thru” service in place of Drive-Thru.^[52]

McCafé

Main article: McCafé

McCafé is a café-style accompaniment to McDonald’s restaurants. The concept was created by McDonald’s Australia, starting with Melbourne in 1993.^[53] As of 2016, most McDonald’s in Australia have McCafés located within the existing McDonald’s restaurant. In Tasmania, there are McCafés in every restaurant, with the rest of the states quickly following suit.^[46] After upgrading to the new McCafé look and feel, some Australian restaurants have noticed up to a 60 percent increase in sales. At the end of 2003, there were over 600 McCafés worldwide.^{[citation needed]}

“Create Your Taste” restaurants

From 2015 to 2016, McDonald’s tried a new gourmet burger service and restaurant concept based on other gourmet restaurants such as Shake Shack and Grill’d. It was rolled out for the first time in Australia during the early months of 2015 and expanded to China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Arabia and New Zealand, with ongoing trials in the US market. In dedicated “Create Your Taste” (CYT) kiosks, customers could choose all ingredients including type of bun and meat along with optional extras. CYT food was served to the table on wooden boards, fries in wire baskets, and salads in china bowls with metal cutlery at a higher price. In November 2016, Create Your Taste was replaced by a “Signature Crafted Recipes” program designed to be more efficient and less expensive.^[54]

Other

McDonald’s at the Itis Mall in Itäkeskus, Helsinki, Finland

Some locations are connected to gas stations and convenience stores,^[55] while others called McExpress have limited seating or menu or may be located in a shopping mall. Other McDonald’s are located in Walmart stores. McStop is a location targeted at truckers and travelers which may have services found at truck stops.^[56]

In the United Kingdom, McDonald’s restaurants can be found in service stations, petrol stations, McDrive Thru, Asda Superstores and Supercenters, shopping centres, retail parks and high street restaurants. One McDonald’s Drive-Thru in Crawley is located in the car park of a Sainsbury’s store. Other McDonald’s locations named ‘McExpress’ or ‘McDonald’s & Go’ have limited seating and can be found more commonly in railway stations and airports.

In Sweden, Happy Meal containers can be used as goggles,^[57] with the game Slope Stars.^[57] In the Netherlands, McDonald’s has introduced McTrax that doubles as a recording studio; it reacts to touch.^[57] They can create their own beats with a synth and tweak sounds with special effects.^[57]

On the river Elbe in Hamburg, Germany is the world’s only McBoat, a float through service (similar to drive through) for people on the river.^[58]^[59]

Special diet

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A kosher Express McDonald’s outlet in the Malha Mall in Jerusalem

The first kosher McDonald’s was established in 1997 at the Abasto de Buenos Aires mall in Buenos Aires, Argentina. There are many kosher branches in Israel.^[60]^[61]

PlayPlaces

Main article: McDonald’s PlayPlace

A McDonald’s in Panorama City, Los Angeles, California with a Playplace designed to promote a family-friendly image

McDonald’s playgrounds are called McDonald’s PlayPlace. Some McDonald’s in suburban areas and certain cities feature large indoor or outdoor playgrounds. The first PlayPlace with the familiar crawl-tube design with ball pits and slides was introduced in 1987 in the US, with many more being constructed soon after.^{[citation needed]}

McDonald’s Next

McDonald’s Next use open-concept design and offer “Create Your Taste” digital ordering. The concept store also offers free mobile device charging and table service after 6:00 pm. The first store opened in Hong Kong in December 2015.^[62]

2006 redesign

An American McDonald’s in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, in June 2008; this is an example of the “new” look of American McDonald’s restaurants.

In 2006, McDonald’s introduced its “Forever Young” brand by redesigning all of its restaurants, the first major redesign since the 1970s.^[63]^[64] It resembles a coffee shop, with wooden tables, faux-leather chairs, and muted colors; the red was muted to terracotta, the yellow was shifted to golden for a more “sunny” look, and olive and sage green were added. The warmer look has less plastic and more brick and wood, with modern hanging lights for a softer glow. Many restaurants feature free Wi-Fi and flat-screen TVs. Other upgrades include double drive-thrus, flat roofs instead of the angled red roofs, and fiber glass instead of wood. Instead of the familiar golden arches, the restaurants feature “semi-swooshes” (half of a golden arch), similar to the Nike swoosh.^[65]

Smoking ban

McDonald’s began banning smoking in 1994 when it restricted customers from smoking within its 1,400 wholly owned restaurants.^[66]

COVID-19 pandemic

A curbside pickup at a McDonald’s drive-thru during the COVID-19 pandemic

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, McDonald’s closed most seating and all play areas in its United States restaurants.^[67] It transitioned to drive-thru and curbside orders at locations and online food ordering delivery services.^[68] The re-opening of McDonald’s restaurants for drive-thru in the United Kingdom generated significant queues of traffic throughout the country.^[69]^[70]^[71]^[72]^[73] In July 2020, for the years’s second quarter, McDonald’s reported earnings of 66 cents per share. Compared to the same period of last year, it represented a fall of 68%.^[74]

Treatment of employees

A kiosk for placing orders at the Denton House McDonald’s in New Hyde Park, on Long Island, New York

Automation

Since the late 1990s, McDonald’s has attempted to replace employees with electronic kiosks which would perform actions such as taking orders and accepting money. In 1999, McDonald’s first tested “E-Clerks” in suburban Chicago, Illinois, and Wyoming, Michigan, with the devices being able to “save money on live staffers” and attracting larger purchase amounts than average employees.^[75]

In 2013, the University of Oxford estimated that in the succeeding decades, there was a 92% probability of food preparation and serving to become automated in fast food establishments.^[76] By 2016, McDonald’s “Create Your Taste” electronic kiosks were seen in some restaurants internationally where customers could custom order meals. As employees pushed for higher wages in the late-2010s, some believed that fast food companies such as McDonald’s would use the devices to cut costs for employing individuals.^[77]

In September 2019, McDonald’s purchased an AI-based start-up Apprente for replacing human servers with voice-based technology in its US drive-throughs.^[78]

Wages

On August 5, 2013, The Guardian revealed that 90 percent of McDonald’s UK workforce are on zero-hour contracts, making it possibly the largest such private sector employer in the country.^[79] In April 2017, due to employee strikes, they gave all employees the option of fixed contracts instead.^[80] A study released by Fast Food Forward conducted by Anzalone Liszt Grove Research showed that approximately 84 percent of all fast food employees working in New York City in April 2013 had been paid less than their legal wages by their employers.^[81]

From 2007 to 2011, fast food workers in the U.S. drew an average of $7 billion of public assistance annually resulting from receiving low wages.^[82] The McResource website advised employees to break their food into smaller pieces to feel fuller, seek refunds for unopened holiday purchases, sell possessions online for quick cash, and to “quit complaining” as “stress hormone levels rise by 15 percent after ten minutes of complaining.”^[83] In December 2013, McDonald’s shut down the McResource website amidst negative publicity and criticism. McDonald’s plans to continue an internal telephone help line through which its employees can obtain advice on work and life problems.^[84]

Liberal think tank the Roosevelt Institute accuses some McDonald’s restaurants of actually paying less than the minimum wage to entry positions due to “rampant” wage theft.^[85] In South Korea, McDonald’s pays part-time employees $5.50 an hour and is accused of paying less with arbitrary schedules adjustments and pay delays.^[86] In late 2015, data collected anonymously by Glassdoor suggests that McDonald’s in the United States pays entry-level employees between $7.25 an hour and $11 an hour, with an average of $8.69 an hour. Shift managers get paid an average of $10.34 an hour. Assistant managers get paid an average of $11.57 an hour.^[87] McDonald’s CEO, Steve Easterbrook, earns an annual salary of $1,100,000.^[88] His total compensation for 2017 was $21,761,052.^[89]

Strikes

Occupation

Workers at the McDonald’s franchise at Saint-Barthélémy, Marseille, occupied the restaurant, in protest against its planned closure. Employing 77 people, the restaurant is the second-biggest private sector employer in Saint-Barthélémy, which has an unemployment rate of 30 percent.^[94] Lawyers for Kamel Guemari, a shop steward at the franchise, claimed an attempt was made to kill him when a car drove at him in the restaurant car park.^[95]^[96]

Working conditions

In March 2015, McDonald’s workers in 19 U.S. cities filed 28 health and safety complaints with the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration which allege that low staffing, lack of protective gear, poor training and pressure to work fast has resulted in injuries. The complaints allege that, because of a lack of first aid supplies, workers were told by management to treat burn injuries with condiments such as mayonnaise and mustard.^[97] The Fight for $15 labor organization aided the workers in filing the complaints.^[98]

Animal welfare standards

In 2015, McDonald’s pledged to stop using eggs from battery cage facilities by 2025. Since McDonald’s purchases over 2 billion eggs per year or 4 percent of eggs produced in the United States, the switch is expected to have a major impact on the egg industry and is part of a general trend toward cage-free eggs driven by consumer concern over the harsh living conditions of hens.^[99]^[100] The aviary systems from which the new eggs will be sourced are troubled by much higher mortality rates, as well as introducing environmental and worker safety problems.^[101] The high hen mortality rate, which is more than double that of battery cage systems, will require new research to mitigate. The facilities have higher ammonia levels due to faeces being kicked up into the air. Producers raised concerns about the production cost, which is expected to increase by 36 percent.^[102]

McDonald’s continues to source pork from facilities that use gestation crates, and in 2012 pledged to phase them out.^[103]^[104]

Corporate overview

Facts and figures

Corporate logo used from 1960 until November 18, 1968

Corporate logo used from November 18, 1968, until 2003

Corporate logo used from 1993 to 2010

By 1993, McDonald’s had sold more than 100 billion hamburgers so two-digit signs were left at “99 billion”.^[105]

The McDonald’s in Northport, Alabama commemorates U.S. President Ronald Reagan‘s visit.

McDonald’s restaurants are in 120 countries and territories and serve 68 million customers each day.^[106]^[107] McDonald’s operates 37,855 restaurants worldwide, employing more than 210,000 people as of the end of 2018.^[15]^[16]^[106] There are a total of 2,770 company-owned locations and 35,085 franchised locations, which includes 21,685 locations franchised to conventional franchisees, 7,225 locations licensed to developmental licensees, and 6,175 locations licensed to foreign affiliates.^[15]^[16]

Focusing on its core brand, McDonald’s began divesting itself of other chains it had acquired during the 1990s. The company owned a majority stake in Chipotle Mexican Grill until October 2006, when McDonald’s fully divested from Chipotle through a stock exchange.^[108]^[109] Until December 2003, it owned Donatos Pizza, and it owned a small share of Aroma Café, from 1999 to 2001. On August 27, 2007, McDonald’s sold Boston Market to Sun Capital Partners.^[110]

McDonald’s has increased shareholder dividends for 25 consecutive years,^[111] making it one of the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats.^[112]^[113] The company is ranked 131st on the Fortune 500 of the largest United States corporations by revenue.^[114] In October 2012, its monthly sales fell for the first time in nine years.^[115] In 2014, its quarterly sales fell for the first time in seventeen years, when its sales dropped for the entirety of 1997.^[116]

In the United States, it is reported that drive-throughs account for 70 percent of sales.^[117]^[118] McDonald’s closed down 184 restaurants in the United States in 2015, which was 59 more than what they planned to open.^[119]^[120] This move was the first time McDonald’s had a net decrease in the number of locations in the United States since 1970.^[120]

The McDonald’s on-demand delivery concept, which began in 2017 with a partnership with Uber Eats and added DoorDash in 2019 (with select locations adding Grubhub in 2021), accounts for up to 3% of all business as of 2019.^[121]

The $100 billion in sales generated by McDonald’s company-owned and franchise restaurants in 2019 accounts for almost 4% of the estimated $2.5 trillion global restaurant industry.^[122]

Finance

For the fiscal year 2018, McDonald’s reported earnings of US$5.9 billion, with an annual revenue of US$21.0 billion, a decrease of 7.9% over the previous fiscal cycle. McDonald’s shares traded at over $145 per share, and its market capitalization was valued at over US$134.5 billion in September 2018.

Year	Revenue in million US$	Net income in million US$	Total assets in million US$	Price per share in USD$	Locations^[123]	Employees	Ref.
2005	19,117	2,602	29,989	31.88			^[124]
2006	20,895	3,544	28,975	36.79	31,046		^[124]
2007	22,787	2,395	29,392	50.98	31.377		^[124]
2008	23,522	4,313	28,462	58.06	31,967		^[125]
2009	22,745	4,551	30,225	57.44	32,478	385,000	^[126]
2010	24,075	4,946	31,975	70.91	32,737	400,000	^[127]
2011	27,006	5,503	32,990	83.97	33,510	420,000	^[128]
2012	27,567	5,465	35,387	92.53	34,480	440,000	^[129]
2013	28,106	5,586	36,626	97.26	35,429	440,000	^[130]
2014	27,441	4,758	34,227	96.38	36,258	420,000	^[131]
2015	25,413	4,529	37,939	100.28	36,525	420,000	^[132]
2016	24,622	4,687	31,024	120.14	36,899	375,000	^[133]
2017	22,820	5,192	33,804	148.76	37,241	235,000	^[134]
2018	21,025	5,924	32,811	166.06	37,855	210,000	^[135]
2019	21,077	6,025	47,511	198.27	38,695	205,000	^[136]
2020	19,208	4,731	52,627	200.89	39,198	200,000	^[137]
2021	23,223	7,545	53,606	234.69	40,031	200,000	^[138]^[5]

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