Bank of America says it plans to raise its minimum wage to $24 per hour making the minimum salary nearly $50,000 per year. The company says it marks the seventh consecutive year of pay increases and that it plans to go to $25 an hour next year. This year’s pay increase goes into effect in October for all full-time and part-time employees.
Woody is a Charlotte native who came to WFAE from the world of NASCAR where he was host of NASCAR Today for MRN Radio as well as a pit reporter, turn announcer and host of the NASCAR Live pre race show for Cup Series races. Before that, he was a news anchor at WBT radio in Charlotte, a traffic reporter, editor of The Charlotte Observer’s University City Magazine, News/Sports Director at WEGO-AM in Concord and a Swiss Army knife in local cable television. His first job after graduating from Appalachian State University was news reporter at The Daily Independent in Kannapolis. Along the way he’s covered everything from murder trials and a national political convention to high school sports and minor league baseball.