Driver getting paid more than someone coding at Blizzard to fix bugs lol
In all seriousness, I’m glad they’re getting the attention they deserve, no one really appreciates when you get your packages rushed/on time
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The devil is in the details instead of a click bait title. I doubt they are getting that amount fully paid out. It’s probably a calculation of benefits and retirement as a total package.
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As a software engineer, I would rather be paid less working from home than be a UPS driver.
No traffic, no customers, no weather, no peeing in bottles, no lifting boxes all day, etc…
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Currently they make 90k salary and 50k in benefits. Good for them if they are getting raises.
Comparing an outdoor physical sweaty job with someone who works inside coding on the computer is basically apples and oranges.
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This is click bait.
They get a max of like 80k/year base.
And no software engineer is going to get mad over it even if they did make 170k base. Engineers like their chicken tendies delivered to the door and buying in bulk at Amazon means someone needs to deliver it. It’s like that communist meme with the two muscle arms joining hands 
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Ask a coder if they would want to work outside in record high heat and record high traffic.
“You couldn’t pay me enough to do that, I’ll just work from home”
Hmmmm
Clickbait. It’s pay and benefits and the first idiotic comment is base pay. Not worth breaking down further when they don’t even tell you where.
If you think they aren’t paying Devs in Irvine 170k, you aren’t looking for a job there. QA always gets overlooked and maybe outsourced, and that’s unfortunate. Expensive job markets, like the Bay Area, New York, Boston have to pay decent wages. But they have a hard time supporting new engineers or QA or folks that aren’t getting high pay.
UPS has to pay in a city too. 170K in the bay area total is maybe 130K base? I’d hate to live there on that, and in fact moved out of that many years ago.
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Courier services have always been important to society, and that has dramatically amplified in the last decade or so. They got many of us thru the pandemic… they also get medical supplies to those in need on a timely basis. You can “overnight” important documents in certain emergency situations. It’s a job worthy of respect. I’m glad they are paid well. 
I have a good friend that does medical courier work. She makes it sound miserable tbh - can never plan anything because you might get a call to drive something three hours away at any time.
manual labor jobs making more than a cozy sitting at a desk drinking coffee and playing polo ball in the office and doing the odd code here and there? say it aint so
Well, at least that blue-collar UPS delivery driver actually provides something of value on a DAILY basis (physically delivering packages directly to people’s doorstep)
Meanwhile… Blizz devs fix major bugs maybe once or twice a year (and a similar fix cadence for class imbalances), they sure are “working hard” 
In the case of some of the more niche areas of the game like casual PvP/casual battlegrounds, they do a major balancing pass/bug fixing patch maybe once every 3 years or so
This is what Unions are for. Every corporate’s nightmare. Although dunno what Tech Workers are complaining about but w/e.
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a game director would make bank because they are the punching bag of the video game, these tech andys should aspire for that. maybe one will make better wow than ion in 10 years.
I work as a delivery driver for FedEx and I’m currently trying to get into the UPS union. We are absolutely over worked and underpaid here. We don’t even work for the company, we’re contracted with no benefits, no hourly pay and bearly any time off. Delivery drivers absolutely deserve every single penny they’re making. The $49.95 salary cap for UPS drivers is merely keeping up with inflation. All things considered with the job and the tole it takes on your body, it’s fair in my opinion.
I am reminded of an ancient king, one of whose inscriptions bragged about the swiftness and dedication of his couriers. He was so proud of this, he demanded that someone literally carve it in stone.
I wouldn’t want the job at any pay level, but I’m mighty glad someone does. Hat’s off to them — those guys and gals keep us going.
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My younger brother worked at FedEx last year before he burned out about 8 months later, they hired him “no questions asked” at $20/hour (with no prior experience) which he was excited about initially… until he found out why once he got into it lol
He says it was a revolving door of new dudes coming and going, and he frequently had to pick up the slack for people that called in sick/etc. Plus some of the packages he got were fairly heavy (40+ pounds) and walking up and down flights of stairs at 3-4 story tall apartment complexes with said packages left him tired as a dog end of the day.
He quit around a year ago, turned in his uniform and such and is now working a more easy/less physically-demanding job
its not about the money its about sending a message
(I actually worked as a driver assistant for UPS during the holiday rush a while ago… I don’t speak ill of people that drive a truck for a living. It is a lot harder than it seems. My neighbor drives a school bus and while I chuckle about it, I know that it’s actually a reasonably difficult job with a lot of responsibility)
That does sound miserable. I hope she’s paid really well! If she’s carrying organs, especially, she’s saving a lot of lives.
Not sure if she’s done organs before - she does a lot of medications for nursing homes and such, though.
so does your plumber, without him you would be dying of cholera