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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What should a "fair" wage for UPS drivers be?  A lot of posters think it's too much but nobody has said what they should earn.  And do they provide more value to our economy than most of the folks sitting behind a desk basically pushing papers that use absolutely zero of their college degree to do their job?  I'd argue yes.[/quote]

$50-70k.  Pretty much the average between fedex, Dhl, usps, Amazon, etc.  they’re about $19-28 /hr, while the union is extorting UPS for $49/ hr.    There’s no way ups drivers work that much harder or[b] better than Amazon delivery guys.[/b]  They’re bring hugely overpaid. [/quote]

You are looking at it the wrong way. Amazon drivers are getting paid TOO little and being exploited (so we can all have a constant stream of cheap crap from China). We should not try to bring people down to the lowest level. [/quote]

Wrong.

If Amazon drivers were getting paid to little then no one would do the job, yet people do do the job.  UPS management are idiots allowing themselves to be extorted for gross overcompensation while Amazon has shown it can pay a fraction of the cost and be worth over a trillion dollars. [/quote]

Amazon is not paying any full-time drivers. It's gig work, no benefits. Is that the direction you think all jobs should head? Lowest-bidder, zero-protection, zero-accountability temp workers for everything?[/quote]

Again, if the job were so terrible and compensation so bad, then no one would do the job. Yet people still do the job.  That just goes to show you how vastly over compensated UPS drivers are.  Amazon drivers do the same job for a fraction of the cost.

Do you have a point?  In our at will economy, people drive trucks for Amazon. So obviously the compensation is still fine. [/quote]

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