amie068 Wrote:
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> I too have wondered why their shop pay increases
> have been so low compared to previous months. It
> was not uncommon to see a $4 shop go up to $15 or
> more but the end of the month. I used to stalk
> their board the last week of every month because
> the increases were usually worth taking the shop.
> Now, those $4 shops seem to jump only to $7 or so
> at best. Who is taking them for that low??? I took
> them at $4 when I first started shopping and
> before I had much sense, but after a time or two,
> I wised up.
I haven't figured it out exactly, but they use some type of rolling average of the previous job payouts to calculate the rate and amount of increases.
For instance, there are three of their college bookstore shops in my area that I do on a routine basis. IIRC, they hit the board at $6, and I usually pick them up somewhere between $20-25. This past month, there was a new location added in my area. All four hit the board at the same time. It took the new location over two weeks longer to reach that $20 mark than the others, and the first several increases were all rounded to the nearest quarter it seemed ($7.50, $9, $12.50, etc.). I'm assuming because they don't the past history of higher pay, it took longer to hit that mark.
Also, there is a gas station that is literally under a minute from my house, which is in a very lightly shopped area. I've done this audit in 12 out of the last 15 months for upwards of $15. Because of this, the price on this shop increases much more quickly than the same brand of gas station in a more populated area, which usually go off the board at $7-8.