Why are there so many supervisors with only 9 to 12 employees under them? I thought it was suppose to be 30 employees per supervisor? So a 1st level supervisor who makes 80,000 or 90,000 or more to watch very few people.. so maybe this should be looked at.
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I make $90k and had to be moved to a manager because a Senior Engineer can't report to a Supervisor since the Sup makes less than that. I'd say my old Sup made $70k.
Our supervisor just got walked out yesterday. They cut 3 or 4 1st line SROs this week. This is here in Arizona.
From these comments there's definitely a disparity in supervisor pay. In Monroe, our front line supervisors are barely making 50K with 10 or more people and needing more bc of work loads. Yet we're told to figure out how to cut people still. The Level 3 way may be to have your supervisors sit in a cushy office states away, making 80 grand + with only 2 or 3 people to supervise, but the legacy CTL way has always been for supervisors and managers to work in the trenches alongside their people with barely enough resources to do the work and definitely not enough pay to survive on. We have upper level specialists that do good to clear 28k a year while their Level 3 or Qwest counterparts several states away make triple that.
Our supervisor is 100 miles away. I have seen her once in three months and talked to her maybe four times. She supervises maybe 15 Business Techs in two states. She could probably leave and it would take us months to figure out she was gone. We do everything ourselves and someone else approves our time. We def have excess supervisors.
I agree with the view that 1 first line to manage 10 techs is a waste, Hell mine spent the last year heading for home by 1pm.
The quote for salary was in the ballpark. I'd say high 80's low 90's in the city.
I know several first line managers and they routinely use "in charges" to do a lot of their functions. Managing the loads, supplies, dealing with contractors ect. We basically manage ourselves. No need for all the first lines running around with 12 to 15 techs with an incharge doing their work.
To the first reply, your very misinformed my last two 1st level supervisors made $90,000+ maybe you work out in the sticks but in the big city with 30 years service that's what they make.
Someone mentioned "metro pay" and i didn't even know this existed until our group tried to hire a guy who got metro pay. He makes $3hr more than a regular BST because he works in the city. Nice.
There are audits done , upper level management who have no employees are the first ones to be cut. Trick of the trade to keep people on payroll...by putting five to ten employees under a supervisor.
There was a meeting with uppdr management and this very same question was ask. The response was once the layoffs are complete they will be adjusting management. In other words they are next.
Pay is higher in some of the (metro area) western states.
Lol, I think you're a little misinformed about how much a supervisor makes and their (expected) workload.