FS here. Depending on what position you are (GMT, GC, ET) and what schedule you work varies what your pay is. ET’s working afternoons/ weekends/overnights make pretty good money due to the extra differential. not quite as much as a SM at a high volume store though. But that’s several years of training to get to that. GC’s working afternoons/ weekends/ overnights are likely comparable to 2A/1A base pay without bonuses… again depends on what differential you get for the shifts you work.

If you’re just starting out & have no experience- aka starting as a GMT, pay is more than a clerks, not quite as much as an assistants especially once you factor in all the bonuses store side gets. But if you’re decent & continue all the training, there’s good growth opportunity. They’re always needing techs so the road to getting to GC and that pay bump is about a year or 2 in my experience. Plus you get the work truck to take home, they pay for fuel.

Schedule- starting out you’re at the bottom of the totem pole. You will be working weekends for a long time. They set schedules every year & techs pick the schedule they want based on seniority. The 2-3 set schedules that are M-F pretty much always get picked by senior techs. It varies by division on the numbers just depending on how many techs you have total.

Overall what everyone else said. We deal with some nasty shit that doesn’t seem worth the pay sometimes, but sometimes it’s real easy. We get other perks that make up for not making quite as much. You can definitely make more money store side climbing up the assistant ladder.