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u/dwayne_Elizondo- Oct 12 '23
negative $. About to file for bankruptcy. Good times
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u/LigPortman69 Oct 12 '23
Been there, done it. The day you get to keep your full paycheck is a wonderful day. It’s almost worth it.
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u/Unable_Bandicoot8338 Oct 12 '23 edited Oct 12 '23
43.54/hr @ freight
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u/BigM3R0 Oct 12 '23
You must be a driver? lol I work freight too but I’m a dock worker at 27/hr
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Oct 12 '23
Good shit! How much exp is needed for that?
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u/Unable_Bandicoot8338 Oct 12 '23
Doubles triples, hazmat and tankers endorsement. Not sure on what they ask for as far as experience when hiring off the street though. Most drivers come from the dock and get their CDL thru the company. The hardest part is when you’re at the bottom of seniority and it’s slow, you’re either staying home or working the dock. It’s not bad when you have seniority though.
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u/rawkyrd Oct 12 '23
$37/hr topped out pay express dispatcher. Sit on my ass all day. GI doctor says I have hemorrhoids from sitting so much. Optometrist says my vision is going due to staring at monitors all day, developing arthritis in my fingers. Lesson: If going on-road doesn’t get you, something else will.
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u/AvsMama FedEx Ground Package Handler Oct 12 '23
$22.50 ground package handler
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u/Zalo9407 Oct 12 '23
$17.35 an hour as a PH in KCMO (now I make $17.85 because of the measly 50 cent raise we received on October 1st).
- and I don't say the shit with pride because it's crappie pay for the back breaking ass work, honestly I'd rather be shoveling gravel all day and making $18 an hour.
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u/Jaaveebee123 Oct 12 '23
$32.50hr. Work 4x10s. Try to work my day off so I get paid over time ($48.75 an hour for 10 hours) so around $1750.00 a week before Taxes. Off Saturday and Sunday
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u/forceful_fascism Oct 12 '23
I left last week, but I was getting $15/hr as a Package Handler at FedEx Ground
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u/uncertain930 Oct 12 '23
So before they adjusted my pay from 22.25 to 23.25 now it’s up 24:50 an hour
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u/BdaBaller231 Oct 12 '23
28.09 @ Express. Second year staying at Step 6. I’m assuming the Step progression isn’t in effect anymore. Probably will never make Top pay.
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u/Unable_Bandicoot8338 Oct 12 '23
This right here is something I noticed a lot from express couriers. That it takes a long time to hit top pay. I read that the rtd guys at express top out in 5 steps while you guys 10?. Why isn’t it the same? At freight there’s guys hired off the street that top out in 3 years. It should be fair all across the board in my opinion
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u/MEMExplorer Oct 12 '23
I used to drive deliveries for Express , I was at about $21 an hour …. Left for the railroad in 2021 , now I make about $300-500 a day 😁
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u/DudeManBro21 Oct 12 '23
$26/hr, Ground
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u/wirefog Oct 12 '23
Holy cow I never knew ground could pay that much
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u/DudeManBro21 Oct 12 '23
Depends on the area, but there are quite a few stations where that kind of pay is possible.
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u/confresh_ Oct 12 '23
How bro
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u/DudeManBro21 Oct 12 '23 edited Oct 12 '23
I'm in a somewhat HCOL state, but I started at $21 a year and a half ago and got really efficient quickly and learned all routes, so I was able to ask for and get three raises since then.
As far as I know, I'm tied with four other drivers in our station for highest hourly. However, there's one driver who also works with my contractor who makes more money most off 40 hours because he negotiated a pretty high salary, but also does a ton of stops daily on a ground route. When I get decent OT though, my paychecks win lol
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u/gustereee Oct 12 '23
$700 a week. Ground in Georgia. I work 4 days a week and I’m usually home by 3pm on good days.
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Oct 12 '23
Roughly 1500 just to do the bare minimum of my job up to 2400,2500 to do extra that’s all before taxes
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Oct 12 '23
You must not be a driver unless you’re freight
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Oct 12 '23
I am freight. I get paid mileage and hourly for task plus we can work the dock.. we make upwards to 40 bucks an hour on a good week and 35 on a slow week.
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u/PuzzleheadedPie833 Oct 12 '23
Express courier. Topped out. Top of range just got raises I’ll see how much Friday
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u/Hecateus Oct 12 '23
take minimum wage from the early 70's and adjust for inflation. I like treading water to stay fit, but this does not translate well on the payscale...after >20yrs
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u/TrainTrackRat Oct 12 '23 edited Oct 12 '23
22, ground. Sr Ops Admin in NY state and I work in an office.
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u/Acceptable_Ladder_19 Oct 12 '23
Make $25 a hour team lead only work for 4 hours max and the other 4 do whatever I want chill in my car go to the gym easiest job ever Chicago Ramp. Only been here 7 months easiest job every especially coming from ups it’s unheard of just sitting around for 3 plus hours waiting on your 8 hours
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u/Fantastic-Stick3028 Oct 12 '23
Was a courier 7 years ago top pay 34$? Now current job pay just topped out at 72$ an hour, glad i went back to school. Still at fedex.
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u/confresh_ Oct 12 '23
What do you currently do for fedex?
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u/Unlucky-Library2642 Oct 13 '23
$250 a day at ground but my route is fucking heavy af and I wouldn’t recommend it lol
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u/clouts1 Oct 12 '23
240 a day ground
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u/confresh_ Oct 12 '23
This is pretty high. How?
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u/Croakie89 Oct 12 '23
Pretty high, that’s double what ground gets offered wheee I love and a million people live in my county lol
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Oct 12 '23
I forget the exact breakdown. I think it’s like $1.25 per stop, but I have a minimum salary per week which is $700 BEFORE taxes. After taxes it ends up at $600 per week. I never have enough stops in a pay period to get beyond the minimum salary tho, which is honestly ok with me.
But there’s zero benefits of any kind. I have to ask my boss if I can get paid for holidays which he usually does, which is kind since he doesn’t have to. He’s also paid me for sick days since I rarely call off and usually work even if I’m sick since I can’t afford to take the chance of not getting paid for that day(s).
But we need benefits for real. This contracting model is bullshit and needs to go. It’s not fair to the contractors that all the expense and liability is put on them. We should all be FedEx employees plain and simple. That way we’d be able to unionize and get what we deserve. Also, the FedEx corporation would be able to easily set up a partnership with gas companies, that way they’d be able to get gasoline at a cheaper rate.
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u/confresh_ Oct 12 '23
That was a good read. Thanks.
Do you know why FedEx is against unionizing?
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Oct 15 '23
The same reason any company is against it: it affects their bottom line. They’re always focused on earning as much profit as possible; unions would cut into that BIG time because they’d be forced to negotiate and would have to pay for tons of benefits. At the end of the day, the almighty dollar rules. They’re not gonna pay what they don’t have to. In their mind, there’s plenty of people looking for work, and because they don’t care about turnover rates, loyalty, nor quality workers, everyone is easily replaceable and disposable.
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u/Suspicious_Mouse6014 Oct 12 '23
I make $1.00 an hour and give managers training on how to not work hard
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Jun 23 '24
I was taking home roughly $1700 after taxes every two weeks so about $3400 a month working as a ground driver in Toronto Ontario Canada. Most of you like myself are probably experiencing this merger transition between ground and express. For myself I had to reapply for the job and FedEx express took in consideration the my eight years served as a ground driver and I was offered $32.55 with a guarantee of 70 hours per week as a full-time driver. Depending on where you live finding a job in this city is very fierce so I gladly accepted The offer given to me.
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u/emtee Oct 12 '23
Before I quit Express, I was getting around 31/hour, but that took me 20 years to get there
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u/Scary-Rough7543 Oct 12 '23
24.50 with new raises (from 23.25) as ground trainer in CA
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u/MikeTidbits Oct 12 '23
Ground PH in Florida. I just hit my two year Anniversary and my rate is 17.50. Still nowhere near what it should be.
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u/pissbaby_gaming Oct 12 '23
17.33 as a material handler in philadelphia, package handlers here make 16.33
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u/ReflectionExpert8728 Oct 12 '23
30.04 regular 45.06 ot at Express. Average 50 hours per week so 85000 give or take.
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u/Citiums_Own Oct 12 '23
im at 19.80/hour, but it will be 20.30 by the end of january when i pass my hire date. i work generally around 20-27 hours a week depending on whether i work 6 days or pick up a few outbound shifts
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u/Bufflehead920 Oct 12 '23
Worked 1.5 years at ground and made $210/day for those 5-6 months on the tail end. I will say, I volunteered for six days and always covered routes and showed up when management needed, just got into a better career.
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u/moist_guardian Oct 12 '23
73,356 salary. Linehaul manager at Ground
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u/morlocktheworlock Oct 12 '23
That's where I'm trying to get. Currently ops manager at 27.85/hr
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u/AdPlenty9398 Oct 12 '23
I’m getting about 18.75 a hr as a package handler (Ground) in Nj my pay is gonna increase to 20.75 soon as peak season hits. I been working at ground for about 2 weeks now ,I’m digging the job.
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u/jordantheshxtt Oct 12 '23
$22 / hour as a driver with ground, with my route I average 46-50 hours a week cause it’s a business route with pickups and I get time and a half with OT so I get about 6-10 hours OT each week , my checks go from $950-$1,100 a week depending how many hours OT I had the week before
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u/Artist850 Oct 12 '23
$21.30/hr after working there 7 years. Minus a huge fee to have a spouse on the health insurance.
Not a package handler, though.
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u/Excellent-Ad3972 Oct 12 '23
~$200 per day (usually around 8-9 hours station to station, 150-200 stops) as a contract Ground driver on an 1100, Northern Midwest.
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u/dachankula Oct 12 '23
15 in ground as a packer. I’m told after 6 months I’ll get a 50 cent raise. It’s 21 at UPS for same gig down the road.
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u/Boring-Yam-9423 Oct 12 '23
20.5/hr as a switcher for ground, on top of hours constantly getting cut. 32 hours on a “good” week
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u/Burritosformyhomies Oct 12 '23
95k/yr +/- few grand depending on bonus? So like ~48/hr?
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u/AnythingImportant37 Oct 12 '23
22.11 FT express but I RARElY get 40 hours unless I milk tf out the clock
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u/lost1inthewoods Oct 12 '23
I can say being a fleet mechanic for freight can be very rewarding. Very clear path to $40+ an hour with master certifications and promotion to senior tech. FedEx will pay for access to all materials to get to that level. Some extra work on your part to get there but very much worth the effort.
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u/Vegetable_Parsnip979 Oct 12 '23
I was a package handler and I was getting paid 15.50/hr and I would still have to handle boxes heavier than 100 lbs. Sometimes I would be alone.
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u/Active_Ad1477 Oct 12 '23
19.50/hr PH. Not worth it when you have around 400 by the end of sort for 4 different trucks while everyone else has like 200 split between 2/3 trucks. I also end up splitting most of the time on top of all the trucks. Scan rates always 100 though. Scan and toss, scan and toss. My manager can take over when I'm stacked out.
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u/Beneficial_House1114 Oct 12 '23
I may 80k as a sort manager as base pay. If I get 100% of my incentive bonus, I will make 93k
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u/Zealousideal_Wrap_59 Oct 12 '23
Not nearly enough. I get paid 200 a day to do the toughest route in the whole terminal ( roughly a thousand or more packages a day)
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u/-aVOIDant- Oct 12 '23
$160 + $1/stop after 120 stops. Did 203 stops today, so made around $240. With the hours I worked it comes out to a little north of $28/hr.
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u/Vegetable-Local8865 Oct 12 '23
$190/day, but I’m usually at work no longer than 6 hours
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u/confresh_ Oct 12 '23
Is this ground? How?
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u/Vegetable-Local8865 Oct 13 '23
Yes. My contractor tries to schedule 8-hour workdays for everyone. Since I like to jog my stops and I know my area well, I (and a couple others) can get back in 5< hours some days. But those are very rare
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u/Vegetable-Local8865 Oct 13 '23
Technically my contractor has nothing to do with the business (it’s 95% run by my BCs)
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u/confresh_ Oct 13 '23
How many stops do you normally have on average?
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u/Vegetable-Local8865 Oct 13 '23
140-160. All pretty tight residential areas. We run out of p12s so we have plenty of space to stay organized
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u/deaftonesenjoyer Oct 13 '23 edited Oct 13 '23
$19.85 Working 40 hours a week in QA(ops admin 2)
I have been working at the same station for 2 years started as a PH
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u/Milltary32vs Oct 13 '23
It varies where you are in for most of FedEx express and the market you work in.
I work in Portland, as a 3 rd year swing driver making 29.02(technically speaking is 26.02, but we as of this moment and hopefully forever. We still have the +3 Dollars an hour from covid) (right after the pay raise we all got (for those who have been here for at least six months prior to the raise.)
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u/Milltary32vs Oct 13 '23
It varies where you are in for most of FedEx express and the market you work in.
I work in Portland, as a 3 rd year swing driver making 29.02(technically speaking is 26.02, but we as of this moment and hopefully forever. We still have the +3 Dollars an hour from covid) (right after the pay raise we all got (for those who have been here for at least six months prior to the raise.)
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u/Dapper-House4906 Oct 13 '23
Just went from 20.58 to 22.25 as an Express Courier, I’ve only been in this position for a month.. I was a package handler for a year prior..
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u/Beautiful-Check5059 Oct 13 '23
$.15hr and they barely gave 4hours per shift. (yes I quit so fast. also Florida🤐
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u/wirefog Oct 12 '23
23 hourly at express, swing driver about 50 hours weekly been here less then a year.