Top Pay Question

[nystripe96]

I've been working PT for two years and always thought that top rate was the max yearly salary a UPS employee can achieve. I never knew that raises continue regardless of achieving top rate. What is the max salary any of you have heard a union employee make? Could it really approach $50+/hr with enough years? I feel kinda dumb for not knowing this, but you live you learn I guess

 

[Bagels]

Top rate is the wage FT employees earn after they've completed their progression; the general wage increase increases top rate each year.

There is no top rate for PT employees. PT employees start out a finite wage, then go through a "progression." After they've completed progression, they earn the same general wage increases -- stacked on their current wage, unfortunately, as FT. The progression requirement is waived when PT stay during a contract year, although they're guaranteed the minimum standards set by the progression scale.

 

[pretender]

I've been working PT for two years and always thought that top rate was the max yearly salary a UPS employee can achieve. I never knew that raises continue regardless of achieving top rate. What is the max salary any of you have heard a union employee make? Could it really approach $50+/hr with enough years? I feel kinda dumb for not knowing this, but you live you learn I guess

I heard that by 2018, drivers will be making $100K...

 

[Bagels]

I heard that by 2018, drivers will be making $100K...

Unlike most people on here, who calculate their pay based upon their paystubs & W-2, I have a calculator and know how to use it. (Actually, I just type in top rate * 40 * 52 into Google.)

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

By the end of this contract a FT driver working very little overtime will gross $80K.

 

[Pickles]

Unlike most people on here, who calculate their pay based upon their paystubs & W-2, I have a calculator and know how to use it. (Actually, I just type in top rate * 40 * 52 into Google.)

​For Triples pay here it would be about $37.20 per hour by the end of the contract.

 

[ibleedbrown]

By the end of this contract a FT driver working very little overtime will gross $80K.

so basically u will be making 80k. i would take it lol but something tells me if i make my 40 days i will be forced to work overtime. guys in my building average 10 hours overtime a week. oh well 100k sounds good to my family and i!!!!

 

[teamsterdan]

they will like $$$ but Y O U will never see them especially in nov. or dec.
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[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

By the end of this contract a FT driver working very little overtime will gross $80K.

so basically u will be making 80k. i would take it lol but something tells me if i make my 40 days i will be forced to work overtime. guys in my building average 10 hours overtime a week. oh well 100k sounds good to my family and i!!!!

There is more to life than money.

 

[Jackburton]

Unlike most people on here, who calculate their pay based upon their paystubs & W-2, I have a calculator and know how to use it. (Actually, I just type in top rate * 40 * 52 into Google.)

Calculate today's check

 

[ibleedbrown]

they will like $$$ but Y O U will never see them especially in nov. or dec.
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i will see them on the weekends plus on christmas and new years eve/day. january - april they won't be able to get rid of me

 

[teamsterdan]

it's nice to have that bright of an outlook but reality proves otherwise see how much patience and energy ya have after 5 yrs...
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[UPSGUY72]

I've been working PT for two years and always thought that top rate was the max yearly salary a UPS employee can achieve. I never knew that raises continue regardless of achieving top rate. What is the max salary any of you have heard a union employee make? Could it really approach $50+/hr with enough years? I feel kinda dumb for not knowing this, but you live you learn I guess

If you started out making $10.00 and go a $.70 each year it would take you 57 years to make $50 hr .

 

[Justaname]

If you started out making $10.00 and go a $.70 each year it would take you 57 years to make $50 hr .

Isn't this the dream?

 

[Brownslave688]

I've been working PT for two years and always thought that top rate was the max yearly salary a UPS employee can achieve. I never knew that raises continue regardless of achieving top rate. What is the max salary any of you have heard a union employee make? Could it really approach $50+/hr with enough years? I feel kinda dumb for not knowing this, but you live you learn I guess

In 30 years it should be $50 an hour otherwise ups drivers then will likely be making less (buying power) than they are now.

 

[Brownslave688]

By the end of this contract a FT driver working very little overtime will gross $80K.

so basically u will be making 80k. i would take it lol but something tells me if i make my 40 days i will be forced to work overtime. guys in my building average 10 hours overtime a week. oh well 100k sounds good to my family and i!!!!

You will work 10 hours alright. Until u hit full scale lol. So u can put in 55 hours a week for something more like 60k.

 

[ibleedbrown]

You will work 10 hours alright. Until u hit full scale lol. So u can put in 55 hours a week for something more like 60k.

i'm red circled at my current pay rate, 23.59 an hour. if i make my 40 days by july 27th, 3 years from now i'll be at scale and 5 years from now, if what i understand is correct, i'll be making 37 an hour. rookies in my center get sent home often so i probably will only make 50k give or take my first year, more than double what i made part-time. i'll take it. lets just hope i make my 40, then i can hate my life like all u guys LOL!!!!

 

[UPSGUY72]

You will work 10 hours alright. Until u hit full scale lol. So u can put in 55 hours a week for something more like 60k.

actually in 5 years an average of around 41.7 hrs a week will give you $80,000 a year

$36.16 * 40 = $1,446.00 * 52 = $75,212.00 + (OT $54.24 * 89 hr =) $4,828.00 = $80,000 +

89 HR / 52 weeks = 1.71 hrs a week of OT.

 

[Brownslave688]

actually in 5 years an average of around 41.7 hrs a week will give you $80,000 a year

$36.16 * 40 = $1,446.00 * 52 = $75,212.00 + (OT $54.24 * 89 hr =) $4,828.00 = $80,000 +

89 HR / 52 weeks = 1.71 hrs a week of OT.

i meant 55 hours for 60k while still in progression.

 

[browniehound]

actually in 5 years an average of around 41.7 hrs a week will give you $80,000 a year

$36.16 * 40 = $1,446.00 * 52 = $75,212.00 + (OT $54.24 * 89 hr =) $4,828.00 = $80,000 +

89 HR / 52 weeks = 1.71 hrs a week of OT.

I Made $80,000 last year and that was with a few unpaid days off