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If the comments in here are to believed and it's not just people trolling, it makes me pretty ashamed of our industry: https://www.autoblog.com/2023/08/09/ups-d
by neom 3y ago
If the comments in here are to believed and it's not just people trolling, it makes me pretty ashamed of our industry: https://www.autoblog.com/2023/08/09/ups-drivers-land-a-170000-a-year-contract-and-tech-workers-are-incredulous/ https://www.autoblog.com/2023/08/09/ups-drivers-land-a-17000...
"This is disappointing, how is possible that a driver makes much more than average Engineer in R&D?" a worker at the autonomous trucking company TuSimple wrote on Blind, an anonymous jop-posting site that verifies users' employment using their company email. "To get a base salary of $170k you know you need to work hard as an Engineer, this sucks."
USP driving is taxing both mentally and physically. Sweltering heat, freezing cold winters, people screaming at you, manual labour.
- matwood 3y agoThey also don't understand the difference between total comp and base salary.
- sevenseventen 3y agoTotal comp as a metric is almost always used to exaggerate the amount of compensation by adding things to salary/rate. - Pension/401k/profit sharing contributions - Employer contribution to health insurance/life insurance - Vacation/sick time compensation These aren't nothing, and you do want to have it available for the basis of total-comp to total-comp across employers, but they're _not_ the same as direct comp. The people quoted in the article are making the category error of comparing salary to total comp. If an engineer is making 170K in direct comp, they're almost certainly making _way more than that_ in total comp. Insurance might be 10K. Profit sharing/401k could be up to another 15%. Other fringe benefits like health club membership could be thousands of dollars. You people who get options -- that counts, too.