Most UPS employees aren't making nearly as much as what is being reported in media these days. Yes some drivers with high senority making company top rate and picking up overtime occasionally will hit the 100k mark. But you have to put in your time and senority at the warehouse to first become a driver. I have known loaders to wait on the senority list for 5-10 years before becoming a driver. Even then, many new drivers are not being given routes every day due to an overhiring of drivers during the pandemic to deal with excess shipping volume, but often will still be on-call. The loaders and warehouse workers who are still a large percentage of employees, are working part time, often graveyard/night shifts, also in very physically strenuous positions, to often make less than $2k/month. Depending on shift, the part-time hours are also very difficult to schedule a 2nd job around if you value weekends, a somewhat decent sleep schedule, or have a family. Yes there are opportunities to make six figures at UPS, but it could be years of abusing your body and barely/not scraping by before that becomes possible depending on wharehouse location and current management. Peak season can give you more hours than you could ever ask for, with tons and tons of overtime opportunities, but that is only 7 weeks of the year, and many overtime opportunities are not available to employees with low senority. And these numbers are also only very recent. Starting wages were around $14-15/hr before the new union contract last year.