UPS Drivers make HOW much????

My father works for UPS, he drives tractor-trailors full of packages on the interstate although he did deliver packages many years ago. His salary is in that range; however he has been with the company 30 years and works about 55 hrs per week. I don't know his hourly rate but the OT is what pushes his annual salary so high. Other senior UPS drivers work that many hours. It seems to me that article misrepresented what an average package car driver with a few years experience makes. UPS is also unionized and maybe that contributes to the salaries? I have heard it's also hard to go full-time with UPS; they keep people to the max part-time hours and let the people with more seniority go full-time and get the extra hours.

I agree with the basic point of your thread . . . nurses are underpaid for what we do!!! I think that other jobs deserve whatever they've been able to fight for . . . in my area, the municipal transit bus and streetcar drivers can make $100K/yr and we've all heard the stories about the average auto worker salary being over $75K/yr . . . the only way that they got these salaries was through union representation/negotiation.

RN's in my area make $50-55/hr average because we're mostly union!! Go Union!!

It is discouraging...my husband went to Vatterott college for one year and received some sort of HVAC/R degree and currently makes $3 more an hour than what I will make with 4.5 years of nursing school

My DH works for FedEx as a driver they don't pay anything near what UPS pays. But he used to work for UPS as a package handeler (sorting) and he says now in order to even become a driver you have to be a package handeler FIRST. That position doesn't pay anything. So many of the UPS drivers work years at minimum wage first before getting to be a driver.

Please. This is reported by the same news outlets that report that nurses can make above 100K a year.

My sister drives for UPS, for about the last year. While she does have fabulous benefits, her actual salary is right at about 40K. Hardly 75K. Be discerning in your media consumption.

I mentioned in a post yesterday that I work with a former UPS driver turned nurse. She makes more money as an RN. Don't believe everything you hear.

Please. This is reported by the same news outlets that report that nurses can make above 100K a year.

My sister drives for UPS, for about the last year. While she does have fabulous benefits, her actual salary is right at about 40K. Hardly 75K. Be discerning in your media consumption.

Um.

Some nurses, bedside, do make 100K.

I know of a few.

More than a few actually.....

UPS just happens to be an incredibly well-run company, with state-of-the-art training tools, strong incentives and internal promotion, competitive hiring, and good compensation. I think that many hospital systems could learn a lot from them!

Good points. I did not think of this being the same media that tells us there is a nursing shortage. We all know what a joke that is! My husband also brought up about the high salary might be due to lots of OT. I bet somewhere out there a group of angry UPS drivers are cursing that media report, just like we do when we hear yet another report of how "recession proof" nursing is :)

Thanks for talking me off the ledge...I won't put in my application yet. Besides, I look terrible in brown :)

Um.

Some nurses, bedside, do make 100K.

I know of a few.

More than a few actually.....

That is not the norm, though, and I know you know that, right?

At any rate, plenty of jobs pay a lot of money that doesn't seem justifiable (pro athletes and actors, anyone?) and I don't really think about it. It's not something I can change, that's for sure. So much of healthcare wages are how much profit a facility can bring in, and when many (most? I don't know) hospitals, like mine, are not-for-profit, and when they can't turn people away (EMTALA), they lose money. Can't get blood from a stone. It is what it is.

a guy i went to high school with is ups driver. i have not spoken with him in about 5 years, but he told me that ups drivers are "self contracted". they are only payed for delivery, so if there is a slow season, slow wages.. i believe he may have told me you have to buy or rent the truck for yourself too...

being a self contractor can sound nice, but all of the bs that comes along with it is not so great.