What determines the market level of a station?
But there are very expensive cities, primarily out West, where the economy is mostly tourism based so they pay usually the bottom two payscales. This is because there's a steady stream of people waiting tables, driving cabs, etc who'll take anything to stay in those towns and FedEx looks attractive compared to local options.
Fred obviously likes to keep his workforce poor. It certainly does cost him more doing so with a revolving door of employees but his out of control ego won't allow him to do it any other way. It makes him look more powerful, at least in his own mind.FedEx doesn't bother trying to do much to help retain people in these areas. It isn't unusual for couriers to live many miles from the stations because they can't afford to live in the cities where they work. The only thing I ever heard our DM talk about as far as helping those employees out was getting them gas cards when gas prices first started going over $3 a gallon. When asked about having higher market levels for these areas (ie, the price of doing business) he just shrugged his shoulders and said that's not how it works. They would rather ask for volunteers, use cartage agents, spend countless $$$ hiring, training and losing people than pay them a wage that actually retains people. The oil and gas producing communities are having the same problems retaining employees. It seems incredibly short-sighted when you consider the fact that most of these stations are on the small side so it isn't as though FedEx would be shelling out a lot more money on those locations.
Not even close otherwise the "oil boom" states ND SD WY UT and others would have better $$ they lose people every day to the oil fields...Turnover
Not even close otherwise the "oil boom" states ND SD WY UT and others would have better $$ they lose people every day to the oil fields...
Nope, contractuallyDoes UPS follow "Market Level" scale or do they pay their employees equally?
Does UPS follow "Market Level" scale or do they pay their employees equally?
I saw on the FedEx.com website under "careers" recently that they were starting couriers in western North Dakota at almost $23hr. That's how insane that area has become.
~$23 pr/hr is basically what our sta. top-out is.
And, we're in the middle of the market levels and on the extreme W. coast. Ocean view for me everyday on my rte.