How Lowe's CEO Marvin Ellison went from making $4.35 an hour as a Target security guard to running the second biggest home-improvement retailer in the US (LOW)

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• Lowe's CEO Marvin Ellison left JCPenney to take over the home-improvement retailer during the summer of 2018.
• But before he ran JCPenney, he worked for years at major retailers like Home Depot and Target.
• Take a look at how Ellison went from a college-aged security guard at Target to the CEO of a major retailer.

Lowe's CEO Marvin Ellison can draw on his many years of retail experience.

Not only has the longtime executive held plenty of leadership positions over the course of his career, but he also knows what it's like to work as a store employee at places like Target.

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Ellison became CEO of Lowe's in 2018. There, he makes a base annual salary of $1.45 million with $6 million worth of restricted stock options, according to the Charlotte Business Journal. But as a college student, he started out with a part-time security gig at Target, which only paid $4.35 an hour.

Here's a look inside Ellison's career:

Ellison grew up in Brownsville, Tennessee, with his parents and six siblings. Ellison told the Dallas Morning News that as a middle child, he was a "a born peacekeeper."

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Source: The Dallas Morning News

Speaking to the audience at the National Retail Federation's 2019 Big Show, the Lowe's CEO said that growing up in rural Tennessee, "I could go out in my front yard and look to the north, south, east, and west and see nothing that looked like success."

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But Ellison added that his parents, who worked as sharecroppers, encouraged him and his six siblings to "not to allow your surroundings to limit your vision of the future." As a result, Ellison said he "always had the desire to do more."

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