Fred's Myth
Nonhyphenated American
Ad infinitum, ad nauseam, ad mortem.
How much does your Ground Contractor pay you?
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Fred's Myth
Nonhyphenated American
When there are tens if not hundreds of correct answers, a simple answer is not possible.
It's up to the contractor, and the contractor isn't required to have a uniform pay scale. It becomes whatever is required to hire and retain each individual.
So, no, it's not a simple question.
Hahaha!. If my comments causes you so much pain and suffering then why do you continue to read them especially when you get up early in the morning on Christmas Eve just to read them?
fedx
Extra Large Package
This isn't just a problem with Ground. I know where I'm at they can't keep Express couriers either. They have a rotating door of employees. You'll see someone new starting and a couple of months later you'll ask "what happened to so and so" and always get "they quit" as the answer. Nobody wants to be micromanaged with a high stress physical job and earn mid teen hourly pay. They can go get a customer service job in a heated/air conditioned office and make the same pay. FedEx needs to understand that you pay according to how crappy the job is. You have a job that you can't keep people sticking with it, then you need to raise the pay until you find people that are willing to stay at that rate.
McFeely
Huge Member
Ground contractor in my area pays $150/day. But I’m not in LA like the OP asked.
That’s why I suggested looking at local job listings. :shrugs:
That's pretty much the norm nationwide All straight time zero benefits and that rate has changed little over the past 3-4 years. Not to mention 70 hour workweeks are becoming more the norm than they exception.
OrioN
double tap o da horn dooshbag
I guess my contractors pay me just a tad better...
Yeah, with some vehicles under the 10,000 lb. limit, they can ask for more hours from those drivers driving them...
True Orion but it's time and a half after 40 hours.I guess my contractors pay me just a tad better...
Yeah, with some vehicles under the 10,000 lb. limit, they can ask for more hours from those drivers driving them...
Do you know how many times we worked 70 hour weeks this past year including peak?
Zero.
For a guy who hasn’t been in the game for a long time, you seem to spout off a lot about it.
Drivebford
Member
I currently make 50k a year after I got a raise, before that I was around 45k
I don’t get where the 15 dollars an hour comes from no one I know gets paid that low unless they are dumb and don’t know any better
I don’t get where the 15 dollars an hour comes from no one I know gets paid that low unless they are dumb and don’t know any better
Drivebford
Member
nope no pension but after a year we do get a week and my contractor does offer health insurance
It’s not a great job but theres worse out there for less money and I’m HD I would never do ground
ManInBrown
Well-Known Member
Guys didn’t you hear. FedEx ground is just as dead end of a job as UPS. Lolol. Poster on here said so, must be true
Come over to the Brown side
Guys at the terminal i was at during this peak season were working 5-12's and 10 on Saturdays. The truck deployment out in the rural areas is shadow. Come in at 7 AM and struggle to get back in by 7-8PM.. Contractors aren't paying OT just a straight flat per diem and piling the boxes on them because they were so shorthanded.
Offer it but who pays the premiums ? More importantly are you paid OT or what we're seeing more of.... paid by the stop which is a one way trip to permanent disability.
Drivebford
Member
My OT is basically a dollar per stop after a certain number. I have brought home after taxes $1000 a week during peak.
I try to get there early so even if I have 200 stops if I go fast I’ll be home by 8 or 9
