You'll likely start out at $7.35 an hour and it will be part time. I believe the only full time positions in produce include the position of produce department head and the back-up to the department head. How many hours you will be scheduled will fluctuate depending on how many people work the department (and if they are currently severely understaffed), your availability versus the availability of your co-workers, the size of the store itself (Signature or Marketplace) as well as store sales. You can go from twenty-something odd hours to forty back down to twenty or anywhere in between, especially when you're new and depending on the needs of the department (such as, if someone goes on vacation, that may give you a bump in hours). You can possibly pick up extra hours by talking to your produce department head, as well as the department heads in other areas of the store (if your produce department head says it's "okay" to work other departments, and if you're willing to be cross-trained for front end/grocery/drug gm/dairy), and management (some co-managers will give you extra hours if they believe you to be a good worker and will assign you tasks like go backs (if there are a lot piling up), or helping with displays or working backstock or performing minor touch up tasks to improve the appearance of the store and improve the customer's shopping experience).

If you have a good department head/store management team, the best way to pick up extra hours is to come in, do a good job, show up when you're scheduled, show an interest to learn more, be great with the customers and come in when they call you on your day(s) off. Eventually, you may be scheduled a steady thirty plus hours a week (as long as your division isn't enforcing a hour cap on part time workers), and it will be easy to hit forty or close to it (but Kroger doesn't want full time people, so achieving full time status isn't easy).