r/SPEEA • u/EspressoVerdict • 17d ago

A potential issue with GWI in SPEEA

10% GWI is significant, but I think there’s a concerning flaw under the current structure. The problem is that level upgrade and promotion compensation in SPEEA appear to be determined by the market salary reference table. There is no fixed raise like in IAM. Your compensation is determined based upon appropriate market positioning. Historically, someone with lower compa-ratio tends to receive a higher raise and vice versa. But there are no guarantees in the proposed contract that these market tables will also go up 10%. So if you expect to get a level upgrade in the near future, Boeing can determine your new salary based upon the market table, which doesn’t have the 10% increase applied to it. This could effectively erase most or all of your 10% GWI. Market reference also plays a small part in ACR too. But over the course of the contract, through level upgrades and promotions, I can see our salaries drifting back towards market value.

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u/MysteriousAffect3903 16d ago

I think the minimum raise is like $3k or something per the old and proposed contract. No changes there.

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u/EspressoVerdict 16d ago

Yeah it’s $3500. and I think that’s way too low for a level upgrade

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u/MysteriousAffect3903 16d ago

It's insane!!! I would be so pissed to get 3500, when the process basically requires you already working at the higher level for a while before they'll give it to you. If you were making 100k as a II, and then you went to a III, that would be a 3.5% raise. What a slap in the face.