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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 1451309" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>Very, very modestly. I'm on the 2nd lowest payscale, at starting pay, which just went to $16hr with the latest raise. Before you get after me about just starting out, I'm a rehire, 3rd time with FedEx. I left after almost 15 years last year, making $18.17hr. A lot of midrange employees are in a similar situation. 2% and 3% raises, with the promise of 4% and 5% raises once we pass the midpoint of the pay range. Problem is they keep raising starting and/or top pay, so the midpoint and other points keep getting higher. So we're chasing better wages that might take 25 years or more to catch, and that's just the midpoint of the range. How would you feel if you are, after 15 years, working next to people who make $9k-10k more than you annually on 40 hrs with no hope of ever doing as well? Or a newhire who's making $19k less on 40 hours, watching topped out employees pulling further and further away each year, while he's mired in 2% raises, or 3% if they raise starting pay that much like they've done for the last couple of years? There's no getting there, just a lifetime of living modestly if you stay at FedEx. With benefits that are stripped to the nub, and no hope of a decent retirement or the ability to decently fund your 401k. The only real solution is to leave for something better if you can find it, but too many people are out there looking for too few something betters. My proposal would at least get couriers to reasonable pay in 10 years, far better than the current system, and certainly within the company's ability to pay.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 1451309, member: 24302"] Very, very modestly. I'm on the 2nd lowest payscale, at starting pay, which just went to $16hr with the latest raise. Before you get after me about just starting out, I'm a rehire, 3rd time with FedEx. I left after almost 15 years last year, making $18.17hr. A lot of midrange employees are in a similar situation. 2% and 3% raises, with the promise of 4% and 5% raises once we pass the midpoint of the pay range. Problem is they keep raising starting and/or top pay, so the midpoint and other points keep getting higher. So we're chasing better wages that might take 25 years or more to catch, and that's just the midpoint of the range. How would you feel if you are, after 15 years, working next to people who make $9k-10k more than you annually on 40 hrs with no hope of ever doing as well? Or a newhire who's making $19k less on 40 hours, watching topped out employees pulling further and further away each year, while he's mired in 2% raises, or 3% if they raise starting pay that much like they've done for the last couple of years? There's no getting there, just a lifetime of living modestly if you stay at FedEx. With benefits that are stripped to the nub, and no hope of a decent retirement or the ability to decently fund your 401k. The only real solution is to leave for something better if you can find it, but too many people are out there looking for too few something betters. My proposal would at least get couriers to reasonable pay in 10 years, far better than the current system, and certainly within the company's ability to pay. [/QUOTE]
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