A local PO here is looking for a Postmaster.
Starting pay: $14.81 an hour. McDonalds pays more.
> Starting pay: $14.81 an hour. McDonalds pays more. <
You are on to something there. I was talking to my mailman the other day. Evidently there are two classifications of workers in the postal service. Permanent employees are paid well. Temporary ones are paid poorly, even if they work full-time.
My mailman was temporary, even though he was with the postal service for three years. He hangs on, he said, because he hopes that some day he’ll be made permanent.
Unlike other Federal employees, post office workers do not receive locality pay adjustments. A postmaster in Loudoun County, Virginia (richest county in the USA) makes the same as a postmaster in McDowell County, West Virginia (among the poorest counties in the USA).
That would likely be a PMR, postmaster reserve or some such. I met a guy doing that job making $10/hour back then.