Making UPS a career?

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Man i hope i'll be making $30 an hour to deliver packages in the future, i hear they'll be paying less?

Probably a longer progression.

 

[JL 0513]

It seems that unlike the frozen part time pay for most of the last 20 years, driver pay has accelerated faster than inflation.

 

[JL 0513]

Man i hope i'll be making $30 an hour to deliver packages in the future, i hear they'll be paying less?

P.S do you guy's ever deliver to your neighborhood lol?

You'll have to go back in time about 5-7 years to make $30/hr. It will pass $40/hr by the end of the next contract (about 6-7 years from now) perhaps when you're on your way to top rate.

 

[Lucidd]

You'll have to go back in time about 5-7 years to make $30/hr. It will past $40/hr by the end of the next contract (about 6-7 years from now) perhaps when you're on your way to top rate.

Yeah buddy $40/hour to deliver packages? Who needs to be a doctor when you've got UPS!

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Yeah buddy $40/hour to deliver packages? Who needs to be a doctor when you've got UPS!

You won't see $40/hr. There will be a two tiered wage for drivers in 2018.

 

[JL 0513]

You won't see $40/hr. There will be a two tiered wage for drivers in 2018.

Isn't this just speculative? If they do this, who falls under what tier? All drivers already at top rate are top tier, then all drivers reaching top rate during next contract are lower tier? Then how many years until you get into top tier?

 

[Lucidd]

You won't see $40/hr. There will be a two tiered wage for drivers in 2018.

Would i ever see $40/hr at some point? UPS is awesome. Get paid good money to work out. Sounds like my kind of job.

 

[PT Car Washer]

Isn't this just speculative? If they do this, who falls under what tier? All drivers already at top rate are top tier, then all drivers reaching top rate during next contract are lower tier? Then how many years until you get into top tier?

The newer drivers will never see top tier. Just like PT and the top rate for bottom tier will stay the same for the next 20 years.

 

[Lucidd]

The newer drivers will never see top tier. Just like PT and the top rate for bottom tier will stay the same for the next 20 years.

Aww man ): Still not bad though.

 

[JL 0513]

The newer drivers will never see top tier. Just like PT and the top rate for bottom tier will stay the same for the next 20 years.

That would be totally bogus. A complete slap in the face for all future drivers.

 

[cosmo1]

That would be totally bogus. A complete slap in the face for all future drivers.

Are you prepared to walk for future drivers?

 

[Lucidd]

That would be totally bogus. A complete slap in the face for all future drivers.

I should probably not even bother with UPS then huh? lmao

 

[scratch]

Maybe @scratch remembers starting/seniority pay back then?

I got hired as a loader at $4.25 an hour in October '75, minimum wage was $2.10 an hour back then. It seemed like I made top rate in just a few months. I remember getting $1.00 an hour raises which was good money back then. I think it was in 1982 that part-timers got screwed on the National Contract and starting pay was stuck at $8.00 an hour for decades. This is what happens when people don't vote. UPS gives the Teamsters so much money for raises at contract time, they don't care how the union divides it up.

 

[JL 0513]

I should probably not even bother with UPS then huh? lmao

The lower tier would no doubt still be very good pay.

 

[PT Car Washer]

That would be totally bogus. A complete slap in the face for all future drivers.

It was a complete slap in the face to all future PTers in 1982. In truth I never thought the starting wage would stay at $8/hr for the next 20 years and only go up to $10/hr after 30 years.

 

[Lucidd]

Any idea what i should go to college for? Gonna go to college for something simple while i'm doing PT at UPS, just to have a degree. May even just go to trade school and learn a trade or something instead of college.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Any idea what i should go to college for? Gonna go to college for something simple while i'm doing PT at UPS, just to have a degree. May even just go to trade school and learn a trade or something instead of college.

What do you want to do?

 

[BakerMayfield2018]

What do you want to do?

Drink beer......

 

[PT Car Washer]

I got hired as a loader at $4.25 an hour in October '75, minimum wage was $2.10 an hour back then. It seemed like I made top rate in just a few months. I remember getting $1.00 an hour raises which was good money back then. I think it was in 1982 that part-timers got screwed on the National Contract and starting pay was stuck at $8.00 an hour for decades. This is what happens when people don't vote. UPS gives the Teamsters so much money for raises at contract time, they don't care how the union divides it up.

I started in 1977 and that is the way I remember the PT wages. It was good money but you could go to any Union job and make the same or better money.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Drink beer......

Done for the evening. Drinking seltzer.