 In 2015, Target followed Walmart in raising its minimum wage to $9 per hour.Two years later, Target announced that the minimum hourly wage would be increased to $11 by October 2017 and pledged to raise it to $15 (referred to as "living wage" by labor advocates) by 2020.By April 2019, the company announced that it was on track to meet this goal, increasing its minimum wage to $13 per hour.