Full-time UPS drivers will earn an average of $170,000 in annual pay and benefits at the end of a five-year contract agreement, UPS CEO Carol Tomé said during an earnings call Tuesday.
Full-time UPS drivers will earn an average of $170,000 in annual pay and benefits at the end of a five-year contract agreement, UPS CEO Carol Tomé said during an earnings call Tuesday.
Average 170k in pay -and benefits- isn’t a clear thing at all.
The rest of this is kind of rhetorical, but if anyone knows I’d be happy to learn :)
What are they including in the “benefits” that don’t actually provide material support or savings for the majority of workers?
For example, my company pays for (bundled with some other dumb service nobody uses) a suite of dumb lifestyle “self help” tools that are actually much worse than free tools, access to which they consider a benefit to me and thus part of my benefit package and total comp, even though it definitely isn’t useful in any way.
Additionally, due to churn, they usually have more entry level, so what is the mode pay for drivers? Mean average (what’s almost always used unless specified) can easily be used to make this look a lot better than it is if a few lifers make bank.
Turnover is high. Some guys quit outright, others from injury or to many accidents. Quite a lot are about to retire at my hub. I have about 10 more years left to go before I hang them up, so the next contract will be the last I have to worry about. I’m just glad they finally took care of the unsung heroes: the part timers. The past 20 years, they’ve been neglected. Not with SOB running the show. That was a hill he was gonna die on.
And the number is projected at the end of a 5 year contract!