Originally Posted by Sir James (Post 512)

FedEx Fred Smith:
2004 Salary + Bonus = $3,886,300
% change from 2003 = 74.5%
Stock option gains = $30,963,500
Stock option grants = $6,740,000
Total shareholder return 1 year = 15.4%
FedEx 2004 revenues = $24,700,000 (4.8% profit margin)

UPS Michael Eskew:
2004 Salary + Bonus = $1,362,500
% change from 2003 = 12.2%
Stock option gains = $1,665,300
Stock option grants = $679,800
Total shareholder return 1 year = 16.4%
UPS 2004 revenues = $36,582,000 (9.2% profit margin)

sources: WSJ, company reports

Originally Posted by AerisArmis (Post 763621)

six year old data?

Originally Posted by chignutsak (Post 763672)

Don't know about the FedEx managerial culture, but at UPS you are a dirtbag anew every morning. Fear, intimidation, sudden moves and reassignments are all part of the game.

Originally Posted by Chuck Turpen (Post 745184)

They do it because they need someone they can rely upon to make it to move the plane without getting a deviation failure, or checking in for their trip that leaves from Denver while they are still snowbound in Detroit. They also need people that are smart enough to get rest whenever they can so that they can safely operate past when most of you would be whining to go to the hotel or stop the jet because you didn't get what you ordered on your catering.

These people in Haiti aren't going to be late on their house payment because of poor planning and 4A2b. They don't have homes. They aren't worried about what their daughters are going to drive to the preppy college this year. They are digging them out from under a pile of rubble.

When you need the TD you give the ball to the ones that perform.