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.
The media keeps publishing this headline as if I’m supposed to be upset by it?
They want to drive a wedge between the working class.
Bet the salary is still bad and they label some benefit aa being “worth” 150k
It isn’t salary. We get paid per hour.
So… Full time then refers to 24/7/365? That’s ~60k hours, at that point I believe when they say they’ll earn 180k (or $3/h)
Why would 24/7 be full time? Lol
This is the land of the free, why wouldn’t it be? Workers always get screwed.
Not if you have a Union 😉
There is strength in numbers.
One stick is weak. Many sticks are a mighty faggot.
As a tech worker I am pissed… that they weren’t earning that much already. Thats hard ass work that deserves a good high pay.
Everyone should be earning more… there was an article awhile back that said the rich have siphoned off $50 trillion in wealth since the 70s. That’s why wages haven’t kept up with productivity.
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!
Benefits is usually a little under a third of salary, ~$115k is good for the job.
5 years from now?
Good for them!
Good for them!
I’m sure the CEO is full of shit though.
You might just collect that for a year before your knees and spine fuse together.
Been doing it 20 years. You just have to eat semi right, hydrate, lift properly, and not try to be the Hulk.
Oh, and get good boots. I use Chippewas. Fantastic boots.
By “Full-time” they have to mean 24/7, right?
Edit: Didn’t think an explicit /s was necessary ;)
