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What is the average Benefit Rate/PTO rate? Friends I talk to - are getting between 9 and 10. SM


Posted: Dec 05, 2012

Their way of figuring it is so convoluted.  I wonder if they keep us all low like that. 

And it is okay to say here. *They* wont know who you are. This needs to - be brought into open so we know what is going on.

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It changes every 6 months - varied

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One time I was in the 19 range, then dropped down to 13, then back up to 16, now down to 13 again...

Yeah, it does flucuate but was wondering how bad I was getting - scr3wed. Any others willing to say? TIA

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more than that - see message

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I don't think it's so mystical - I thought it was just an average of what you made over the past 6 months. Since my cpl is probably higher than you, my PTO average is higher than yours.
yeah, and if you bounce around a lot and production is low - then PTO pay will be low
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Also varies for part time versus full time if I am remembering correctly.

i average between 16-18 hour. - radMT

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but this time it will be more like bare minimum 13/hr this next 6 months as I became so unwilling to work hard after my pay decrease. I have to pump out the constant work for almost the entire hour to make 19/hr. but its typical and unlikely to achieve a 40-hr week. nja

In the past 2 years mine has fluctuated between - 19.66 and 20.78. NM

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