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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 788720" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>Hate to disagree, but the lowest payscale, the "B" payscale, starts at just over $14hr. Since there was no raise last year and a 2% this year, no way you can be at $16.80hr after 4 years on the lowest payscale. Also, there's no payscale that tops out at $28hr. Possibly a topped out swing working in the Silicon Valley area is making over $26hr, possibly New York, Alaska, Hawaii, parts of California too.</p><p></p><p>I was rehired at $10.85hr on the B payscale 12 years ago. I've taken hits dropping from swing to courier twice and am at $17.09hr. I wish I lived in a "cheap" area and was at $16.80hr after only 4 years!</p><p></p><p>FedEx doesn't just pay low pay in cheap areas. Just ask people living in places like Jackson, WY, Santa Fe, NM, or Flagstaff, AZ and others. Costs similar to California but paying the second lowest payscale out of 7 payscales. Because these are desirable places to live FedEx always finds people willing to transfer in or locals desperate for a job so they don't feel the need to pay any better. Taking a job there insures you'll live a step above poverty but hey, just look at that scenery! There was a ski area in Colorado, can't remember the name, that they tried to pay the lowest payscale. Kept seeing JCATS postings that kept going up in pay until finally stopped at friend pay. Talked to mgr there who told me that there was such high turnover due to pay that they gas to raise it to keep people. But in a place like Flagstaff, AZ there's a large enough population that they can keep the pay down and always find someone. Important to note that if they knowingly keep pay down when average homes cost $350k+, then what do we think they're willing to do for the rest of us?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 788720, member: 24302"] Hate to disagree, but the lowest payscale, the "B" payscale, starts at just over $14hr. Since there was no raise last year and a 2% this year, no way you can be at $16.80hr after 4 years on the lowest payscale. Also, there's no payscale that tops out at $28hr. Possibly a topped out swing working in the Silicon Valley area is making over $26hr, possibly New York, Alaska, Hawaii, parts of California too. I was rehired at $10.85hr on the B payscale 12 years ago. I've taken hits dropping from swing to courier twice and am at $17.09hr. I wish I lived in a "cheap" area and was at $16.80hr after only 4 years! FedEx doesn't just pay low pay in cheap areas. Just ask people living in places like Jackson, WY, Santa Fe, NM, or Flagstaff, AZ and others. Costs similar to California but paying the second lowest payscale out of 7 payscales. Because these are desirable places to live FedEx always finds people willing to transfer in or locals desperate for a job so they don't feel the need to pay any better. Taking a job there insures you'll live a step above poverty but hey, just look at that scenery! There was a ski area in Colorado, can't remember the name, that they tried to pay the lowest payscale. Kept seeing JCATS postings that kept going up in pay until finally stopped at friend pay. Talked to mgr there who told me that there was such high turnover due to pay that they gas to raise it to keep people. But in a place like Flagstaff, AZ there's a large enough population that they can keep the pay down and always find someone. Important to note that if they knowingly keep pay down when average homes cost $350k+, then what do we think they're willing to do for the rest of us? [/QUOTE]
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