[OHPatriot]

Your statement is not all that far off. When you look at hourly rate, head to head the “engineer” is slightly ahead. The real kicker is OVERTIME and BENEFITS.

I had relatives in UAW, /spit/ who would tell about how they all gamed overtime. It was not uncommon to get a 40-60% “bonus” EVERY OTHER YEAR. Almost like it was planned out wink wink.

Don’t forget cops and firefighters game overtime in last few years before retirement to goose their retirement pay which is usually based on high 3-5yrs.

SCREW UNIONS

[joe fonebone]

I’m a retired engineer.
I was into automation.
We installed stuff for the big 3.
I got paid hourly ( my insistence).
They made as much as me hourly.
I made up for it in overtime.
When I was in the field, it was 15 to 18 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Was on overtime by Wednesday, double time on Sunday.

[Svartalfiar]

Don’t forget cops and firefighters game overtime in last few years before retirement to goose their retirement pay which is usually based on high 3-5yrs.

I've never understood that. What idiot in management first thought to base retirement pay on anything other than the base pay rate? And almost every company/gov does that too. OT should be a side benefit that has no bearing on your pension or such.