RCA Pay

bazkitcase5 · Jul 10, 2018

Can somehow explain to me about how the pay for RCAs is determined? I was hired on at $15.84 per hour, yet now RCAs are being hired on at $17.78 per hour, which is what I am finally now making after 4 years of working hard and doing everything that is asked of me.

I complete understand that it is a government job, but is there really no benefit to being a loyal employee for multiple years? RCAs that were hired 4 years before me make more than I do, but now anybody hired after me automatically makes the same rate, even with no experience and it just doesn't seem fair.

faceindawind · Jul 10, 2018

At $15.84 what where you hired as? That is not an RCA pay I am aware of.

If you are an RCA you should be making $25.59 or $21.81 to $17.78 depending on date of hire.

If you now make $17.78 you are table 4 RCA. Hired after 8/11/2012. Experience served has no reflection in your pay to those who were hired after you.

Welcome to the Machine and real world.

LouSainus · Jul 10, 2018

RCAs do not get raises/steps like regulars and PTFs do. All RCAs are paid the same depending on when hired as above.

Regulars are paid the same as well if they are on the same step(raise) and same route size.
Again like RCAs there are two different tables. Table two regulars make around 15% less than table one across the board.
Table two regulars get a raise once every 52 weeks where table one regulars get raises on a staged timeframe which is longer early and shorter closer to retirement.

43K 43J and 43H is the same pay as well it just determines the amount of days off

I believe ARCs are paid the same 17.78 as the RCAs. There is no fairness in the post office. The worst get the best and the best get the worst it seems.

bazkitcase5 · Jul 11, 2018

I was hired on as an RCA at 15.84...

so it sounds like I was just hired on at the wrong time

What about RCAs who get an Aux route, is their pay the same as other RCAs?

HardearnedTan · Jul 11, 2018

Still an RCA. Still the same pay rate. After a set period of serving the route, their classification can change to Designation 79, which means they become a leave-earning substitute. They can then earn annual and sick leave based upon their days serving only that aux. route. Filling in for other routes, or providing assistance after completing the aux rt., does not go toward their leave earnings.

gotstamps · Jul 11, 2018

Just to throw one more something to think about...
There is no difference in pay from one area of the US to another no matter the "cost of living". A carrier in New York makes the same as a carrier in Texas although most everything is more expensive in New York (so I'm told). A friend bought a 2-story house in Texas for the price he paid for a very small apartment in New York.
Not fair but it is what it is.

bazkitcase5 · Jul 12, 2018

ouch that is brutal... I am practically begging for as many hours as I can get just to barely get by in a state with a low cost of living.. I couldn't imagine trying to live off the same amount of pay in a state like New York