Cashiers in our area start between $6-7 per hour. I should know, my wife works for our local Wal-Mart in the accounting office.
It's worked well for us because she works nights on weekends so we haven't had to put the youngest in child care. She's leaving there to go back to teaching part-time this fall.
But from our experience, Wal-Mart has been an excellent company to work for.
Great - so I have to subsidize Wal-Mart with my taxes that go to their employees via the EIC.