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<blockquote data-quote="Ricochet1a" data-source="post: 924875" data-attributes="member: 22880"><p>I kind of had a feeling that you were right at the "middle"....</p><p></p><p>Sorry you didn't make the cutoff.</p><p></p><p>I had a typo for Market level B, the cut off is $17.98 instead of the $17.88 I typed. </p><p></p><p>This should all be "in the open" with your managers now. It went official a day after I got the information (I held off posting over the weekend), I just wanted to wait to make sure my source was accurate - which they were. </p><p></p><p>If you're in Market level B, you'll hit the 3rd quartile with the next go around in 2013. You'll hit $18.14 this March, and next March you'll hit $18.68 after the standard 3% raise - which will put you a few cents into the 3rd quartile and qualify you for the additional 2% bump (assuming the same system is used in 2013). </p><p></p><p>If you are in Market Level A, you're out of luck. The magic number to qualify for the additional 2% bump this year is $18.98 as current pay. With $18.14 in March, you'll hit $18.68 in March 2013 (still too low). In March 2014, you'll hit $19.24... still too low; you need $19.56 after the standard increase to qualify for the 2% "bump".</p><p></p><p>In March 2015, you'll be at $19.82 and qualify for the bump.... as long as the top end of the pay scale doesn't increase. </p><p></p><p>Since I know you've stated that you only have 3 years or so left, you'll never get anything more than a 3% per year pay increase.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I knew this was coming, but was caught off guard regarding how they were going to do it. They were tossing around the 5-6% number, but everyone that was talking to me thought that the 5-6% would be at the LOW end of the pay scale - the bottom 2 quartiles. Express isn't worried about "catching up" the bottom half of the Couriers (all part of the Master Plan), they are worried about holding off the high end Couriers, RTDs and Ramp Agents from signing union cards, so that is why the upper end is getting the 5-6% and the lower end is only getting 3%. </p><p></p><p> For all the Kool-Aid drinkers out there, this just proves that Express doesn't give a damn about the lower end Couriers and Ramp Agents. Simple logic would've been to allocate the funds for pay raises to the BOTTOM end of the pay scale, and shrink the gap between those that are topped out and those who have less than the 10 to 12 years needed to be right at the 50% point in progression or higher. Isn't going to happen. </p><p></p><p>Express is now raking in the cash as a result of all the cuts and changes that have been made since the economic "crisis" started in late 2008. Are those that held on through that going to get anything??? Well, those that Express fears the most that will sign union representation cards will be getting a little extra "bonus" - everyone else can munch on the turd sandwich that Fred is offering up. </p><p></p><p>All the time I was a regular poster here, I constantly harped on one thing...</p><p></p><p>SIGN UNION REPRESENTATION CARDS!!!</p><p></p><p>Until and unless there is a grassroots movement within Express to do just this, the execs in Memphis will be laughing it up over what they are getting away with. </p><p></p><p>There is a growning corporate trend (Mr. FedEx brought this up in a thread which I saw prior to writing this) about the trend to two-tiered compensation systems. Pay the "upper tier" the better compensation system to keep them happy and (in Express' case, to keep them from unionizing) and pay the "lower tier" just enough to keep a labor supply which isn't too costly to have to constantly train newhires replacing those who walk after they get tired of the turd sandwich.</p><p></p><p>With the new system Express is about to roll out, a de facto two tiered pay system is going to go into effect. One pay raise for those who are already half way in progression, and a lower pay raise for everyone else. The gap between the top half and the bottom half will grow even more rapidly under this system.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ricochet1a, post: 924875, member: 22880"] I kind of had a feeling that you were right at the "middle".... Sorry you didn't make the cutoff. I had a typo for Market level B, the cut off is $17.98 instead of the $17.88 I typed. This should all be "in the open" with your managers now. It went official a day after I got the information (I held off posting over the weekend), I just wanted to wait to make sure my source was accurate - which they were. If you're in Market level B, you'll hit the 3rd quartile with the next go around in 2013. You'll hit $18.14 this March, and next March you'll hit $18.68 after the standard 3% raise - which will put you a few cents into the 3rd quartile and qualify you for the additional 2% bump (assuming the same system is used in 2013). If you are in Market Level A, you're out of luck. The magic number to qualify for the additional 2% bump this year is $18.98 as current pay. With $18.14 in March, you'll hit $18.68 in March 2013 (still too low). In March 2014, you'll hit $19.24... still too low; you need $19.56 after the standard increase to qualify for the 2% "bump". In March 2015, you'll be at $19.82 and qualify for the bump.... as long as the top end of the pay scale doesn't increase. Since I know you've stated that you only have 3 years or so left, you'll never get anything more than a 3% per year pay increase. I knew this was coming, but was caught off guard regarding how they were going to do it. They were tossing around the 5-6% number, but everyone that was talking to me thought that the 5-6% would be at the LOW end of the pay scale - the bottom 2 quartiles. Express isn't worried about "catching up" the bottom half of the Couriers (all part of the Master Plan), they are worried about holding off the high end Couriers, RTDs and Ramp Agents from signing union cards, so that is why the upper end is getting the 5-6% and the lower end is only getting 3%. For all the Kool-Aid drinkers out there, this just proves that Express doesn't give a damn about the lower end Couriers and Ramp Agents. Simple logic would've been to allocate the funds for pay raises to the BOTTOM end of the pay scale, and shrink the gap between those that are topped out and those who have less than the 10 to 12 years needed to be right at the 50% point in progression or higher. Isn't going to happen. Express is now raking in the cash as a result of all the cuts and changes that have been made since the economic "crisis" started in late 2008. Are those that held on through that going to get anything??? Well, those that Express fears the most that will sign union representation cards will be getting a little extra "bonus" - everyone else can munch on the turd sandwich that Fred is offering up. All the time I was a regular poster here, I constantly harped on one thing... SIGN UNION REPRESENTATION CARDS!!! Until and unless there is a grassroots movement within Express to do just this, the execs in Memphis will be laughing it up over what they are getting away with. There is a growning corporate trend (Mr. FedEx brought this up in a thread which I saw prior to writing this) about the trend to two-tiered compensation systems. Pay the "upper tier" the better compensation system to keep them happy and (in Express' case, to keep them from unionizing) and pay the "lower tier" just enough to keep a labor supply which isn't too costly to have to constantly train newhires replacing those who walk after they get tired of the turd sandwich. With the new system Express is about to roll out, a de facto two tiered pay system is going to go into effect. One pay raise for those who are already half way in progression, and a lower pay raise for everyone else. The gap between the top half and the bottom half will grow even more rapidly under this system. [/QUOTE]
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