Current:Home > MarketsTikTok users were shocked to see UPS driver's paycheck. Here's how much drivers will soon be making. -Thrive Capital Insights
TikTok users were shocked to see UPS driver's paycheck. Here's how much drivers will soon be making.
View
Date:2025-04-15 15:10:31
A UPS driver has gone viral on TikTok after posting a video breaking down his weekly paycheck in the name of pay transparency.
Skyler Stutzman, an Oregon-based UPS delivery driver with over 244,000 TikTok followers, posted a video in October in which he showed a recent pay stub with his pre-tax earnings of $2,004 for one week of work.
After taxes and deductions, and at a pay rate of $44.26 per hour, Stutzman's take home pay was about $1,300 for 42 hours of work.
The original video has gotten nearly 12 million views and over 11,000 comments since Stutzman posted it, and he's followed up with multiple other posts responding to users' comments. Many of the comments express jealousy, while others were shocked to learn how much money a UPS driver can make.
"40 dollars an hour. Meanwhile me fighting for my life making 15 an hour," one commenter wrote.
"Thats good money for only 42 hours worked," wrote another.
UPS driver salary:Full-time UPS drivers will earn $170,000 a year, on average, in new contract, CEO says
Average UPS driver salary to reach $170,000
The Teamsters union reached an agreement with UPS earlier this year that will see UPS drivers earn an average of $170,000 in annual pay and benefits at the end of a five-year contract.
"When you look at total compensation, by the end of the new contract, the average UPS full-time driver will make about $170,000 annually in pay and benefits," UPS CEO Carol Tomé said at the time. "And for all part-time union employees that are already working at UPS, by the end of this contract, they will be making at least $25.75 per hour while receiving full health care and pension benefits."
The agreement came after months of intense negotiations and Teamsters threatening to enact what would have been the largest single employer strike in U.S. history.
As part of the agreement, UPS agreed to add air conditioning to all larger delivery vehicles, sprinter vans and package cars purchased after Jan. 1, 2024. All cars will get two fans and air induction vents.
Contributing: Olivia Evans and Doc Louallen, USA TODAY Network
veryGood! (1351)
Related
- Olympic women's basketball bracket: Schedule, results, Team USA's path to gold
- Nevada high court orders lower court to dismiss Chasing Horse sex abuse case
- Cardi B Debuts New Look in First Public Appearance Since Giving Birth to Baby No. 3
- Derrick Rose, a No. 1 overall pick in 2008 and the 2011 NBA MVP, announces retirement
- Man charged with murder in death of beloved Detroit-area neurosurgeon
- Gil Ramirez remains on 'Golden Bachelorette' as Joan hits senior prom. Who left?
- 5 women, 1 man shot during Los Angeles drive-by shooting; 3 suspects at large
- Alan Eugene Miller to become 2nd inmate executed with nitrogen gas in US. What to know
- Federal appeals court upholds $14.25 million fine against Exxon for pollution in Texas
- Wisconsin district attorney pursuing investigation into mayor’s removal of absentee ballot drop box
Ranking
- Olympic women's basketball bracket: Schedule, results, Team USA's path to gold
- Moving homeless people from streets to shelter isn’t easy, San Francisco outreach workers say
- Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh says Justin Herbert's ankle is 'progressing'
- Egg prices again on the rise, with a dozen eggs over $3 in August: Is bird flu to blame?
- Will the 'Yellowstone' finale be the last episode? What we know about Season 6, spinoffs
- What to know about Jake Paul-Mike Tyson fight: date, odds, how to watch
- Judges set to hear arguments in Donald Trump’s appeal of civil fraud verdict
- Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh says Justin Herbert's ankle is 'progressing'
Recommendation
Connie Chiume, South African 'Black Panther' actress, dies at 72
Cardi B Debuts New Look in First Public Appearance Since Giving Birth to Baby No. 3
Brian Kelly offers idea for clearing up playoff bubble, but will CFP committee listen?
Rudy Giuliani disbarred in DC after pushing Trump’s false 2020 election claims
NHL in ASL returns, delivering American Sign Language analysis for Deaf community at Winter Classic
New York City Mayor Eric Adams vows to fight charges in criminal indictment
10 homes have collapsed into the Carolina surf. Their destruction was decades in the making
Coach named nearly 400 times in women's soccer abuse report no longer in SafeSport database