Stable Employment - Anonymous employee Septa Employee Review

4.0
Nov 26, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits are better than most anywhere in the private sector. In general, great group of people to work with and I worked on a lot of exciting projects as a project engineer,

Cons

Salaries for long time employees kept low while in order to bring in new people from the outside, those people are being offered salaries more in line with the private sector creating animosity between the new hires and current ones. Pension contributions are being raised to be equal or more than annual merit increases so wages have gone flat from here on. You'll get your money on the back end but you can't send it now for day to day living.

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Cons

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Free rides on public transit

Cons

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