Salary check
What actually earns a DHL package messenger?
High time pressure, physical stress, zero self-realization: DHL package messenger is a bone job. But what do the deliverers actually earn with their work?
Shopping online is wonderfully comfortable. Hardly any effort or delivery costs, unlimited selection, and if the ordered does not like it, just send it back.
Only the moment of delivery can be uncomfortable for a short time. If it is warm, it comes sweaty, it is cold, with a red nose: the stressed DHL package messenger that takes over our efforts for payment. But how high is it?
What does a parcel messenger earn at DHL?
Long -wing and working conditions can be read in current: In Cologne, for example, as a new adjoining package broth full -time (38.5 hours per week) you get 17.60 euros per hour. That is 2710.40 euros in four weeks. There is also a 13th content as a Christmas bonus. From the 2nd year, DHL pays a vacation allowance of 332 euros.
However, the hourly wage differs from city to city: in Duisburg it is 17.05 euros. That is 3.1 percent less than in Cologne. The other conditions are the same.
DHL package plates are paid for. This was last closed between Deutsche Post AG and the Verdi union in March 2023 and is valid until March 31, 2026.
Parcel deliverers therefore belong to the pay group 3 and at the beginning the monthly reason for level 0. In this way, the salary in level 1 increases to 2832.14 euros. After ten years you get 3166.98 euros.
Subcontractors rarely pay according to tariff
In addition to DHL, there are five other large parcel services in Germany: Amazon, DPD, GLS, Hermes and UPS. According to the Federal Network Agency, DHL has a market share of more than 40 percent, the others between 5 and 15 percent.
According to Verdi, more than half of the German parcel deliverers are not directly employed by the large logistics companies. They work for subcontractors where the collective agreement does not apply. This leads to grievances such as 14-hour days, dumping wages or unpaid overtime.
At DHL, only two percent of employees are employed by subcontractors. For the company, over 116,000 deliverers in the post and package segment worked for the company at the end of 2023. According to the Federal Association of Package and Express logistics, around 260,500 people were employed in the courier, express and package industry in 2023.
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Source: Stern
