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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bagels" data-source="post: 1090135" data-attributes="member: 43436">So what?  With few exceptions, the starting pay -- which places most PTers at $10/hour after 90-days employment -- is competitive for the type of workers employed here (low/no skill).  And after four years, with the current pay progression, they're banking more than they could in similar jobs elsewhere.  Chalk the benefits, and generous time-off, as a bonus.Nearly all companies offering low wages suffer from heavy turnover; it isn't a concept unique to UPS.  Now that benefits have been deferred 12-18 months, I doubt UPS cares anyway -- first-year employees are dirt cheap and the company no longer has to worry about people working 6-months, then having expensive surgery that keeps them out indefinitely (which was commonplace at one time).</blockquote>