I’ll be transparent as hell here
I work at a school bus yard as the dispatcher. Drivers get paid according to a sliding pay scale of how long they’ve been here.
Brand new drivers get $24.50 an hour. I have enough experience that I would be making $26 an hour as a driver.
Instead, I’m making $22 to be an office staff and take on way more. I’m told I get less per hour because I’m gaurenteed 40 hours a week year round while drivers only get 25 to 30 hours a week. The kicker, I have to drive almost every single day if we are short staffed and I still only get paid $22 even though I’m doing the exact same job as someone else getting more than me.
I also just found out I get a 2 percent raise max every year. I was also told I should be happy I got a raise at all because “I came in so high on the pay scale”.
I was originally offered $20 an hour and negotiated $22.
Drivers get a 3 and a half percent raise every year regardless of performance. I get a 2 percent raise only if I “earn it”.
So the longer I work here, the further behind I’ll be.
I explained to my boss why I was unhappy with a 2 percent raise. It would take 50 years to double my pay. In the last 50 years, things have more than doubled.
So yah. Every single year I stay here, I’ll actually have less buying power