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<blockquote data-quote="Fnix" data-source="post: 245565" data-attributes="member: 10535"><p><strong>quoted from another UPS forum</strong></p><p>"That pay rate is a real surprise to me. I live in California, and have heard that McDonald's workers make $10/hr. I would think that the major difference between the two jobs is that UPS provides benefits. For any employer to provide medical benefits in the USA means less pay to the employees, and if our health care/insurance industry system doesn't get overhauled, it is just going to get worse. My husband is primarily a dishwasher with the job title of "kitchen helper", and he started at $8.25/hr. His raises have brought him up to $11.75/hr over the last couple of years, and the last raise took some effort to get. I believe it is because if we opted in and purchased health insurance, the company would have to pay about $250 more monthly and he would become an expensive employee. Expensive employees are easily replaced by new and cheap hires, and there is no way we will ever opt in to health insurance. The cost is a huge burden to every employer that provides it, and in my opinion is in no way worth the cost."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fnix, post: 245565, member: 10535"] [b]quoted from another UPS forum[/b] "That pay rate is a real surprise to me. I live in California, and have heard that McDonald's workers make $10/hr. I would think that the major difference between the two jobs is that UPS provides benefits. For any employer to provide medical benefits in the USA means less pay to the employees, and if our health care/insurance industry system doesn't get overhauled, it is just going to get worse. My husband is primarily a dishwasher with the job title of "kitchen helper", and he started at $8.25/hr. His raises have brought him up to $11.75/hr over the last couple of years, and the last raise took some effort to get. I believe it is because if we opted in and purchased health insurance, the company would have to pay about $250 more monthly and he would become an expensive employee. Expensive employees are easily replaced by new and cheap hires, and there is no way we will ever opt in to health insurance. The cost is a huge burden to every employer that provides it, and in my opinion is in no way worth the cost." [/QUOTE]
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