Summer 2027 Corporate Intern: Economist
- Pay
- $25 – $48 per hour
- Location
- (USA) 121 HOBOKEN NJ HOBOKEN Home Office
- Listed
- 2 days ago
What you'll do
The Internship
- Held over an 11-week period during the summer of 2027 for undergrad students graduating between December 2027 and August 2028.
- The paid internship will prepare associates for a career with Walmart Economics team.
- Work on a meaningful project, network with industry experts, and develop your skills while having an epic summer!
Responsibilities
- Designing and analyzing experiments Guide decision making by ensuring we understand the impact of potential changes through careful experimentation
- Performing causal inference Leverage the latest in econometrics and statistics to understand the effect of changes we cannot run experimentally
- Framing and evaluating trade-offs Define and weigh business trade-offs to drive strategic decisions under uncertainty
- Applying behavioral economics Use an understanding of behavioral economics to inform user experience design
Minimum Qualifications
- Must be actively enrolled in a Bachelor's degree program.
- Expected graduation date between December 2027 - August 2028.
- Experience with analyzing large datasets (ideally coding in SQL, R, or Python) is a plus
- Passion for economics or experience assisting with academic research
- You're curious and a self-starter, naturally interested in learning more
- You're collaborative and uplift your team when you partner with others
- You enjoy hard problems
- You have knowledge of experimentation and causal inference methods
- Walmart and Sams Club does offer housing and relocation benefits to students that meet qualifications.
- A successful candidate will not require sponsorship from Walmart for authorization to work now or in the future.
Pay and benefits
At Walmart, we offer competitive pay and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet!
For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.
The hourly wage range for this position is $25.00 - $48.00*
*The actual hourly rate will equal or exceed the required minimum wage applicable to the job location.
Minimum Qualifications
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
Preferred Qualifications
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Primary Location
121 River St, Hoboken, NJ 07030-5989, United States of America
About the Economist Internship
As the Fortune One company, Walmart sells hundreds of billions of dollars a year in merchandise and employs more than one million people. Walmart's scale and the complexity of its problems necessitate careful, sophisticated analysis. The Walmart Economics team is responsible for applying the latest insights and methods from academia to drive Walmart's decision making and continued transformation.
The Walmart Economics team is growing quickly. Economists on the team work with the Chief Economist on projects across the company, including:
- Optimizing pricing
- Growing membership and subscriptions
- Increasing our sustainability
- Developing a thriving marketplace
Interns are fully immersed in the team and can expect to take on a short-term version or a component of a full-time project. You will partner with business and tech teams in our Home Office to use tools from Economics to understand the causal impact of decisions, identify and optimize tradeoffs, and drive strategy using first principles. Interns work on projects with real-world impact while gaining experience working at one of the largest companies in the world.
Equal opportunity and legal notices
Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.
From Wal-Mart's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on November 8, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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The Summer 2027 Corporate Intern: Economist posting at Wal-Mart states compensation of $25 – $48 per hour. Final pay may depend on location, experience, and interview evaluation on Wal-Mart's official career site.
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