Becoming unstable quickly - at least for Salary Employees - Anonymous Employee Portland General Electric Employee Review

Recent instability- wondering whether this job will be cut in the CAC new year (for Non-union folks). There's huge disparity between engineering and CBA employees. Union Technician (Head)-(SCADA, COMMS, MR, Special Tester): $78.61 currently (2025), slated to rise to $84.11 (2026)- that's 7% raise. They received 45 in 2024, 6% in 2025, 7% in 2026, and another 6% in 2027. All OT is a minimum of double time, and it goes up on the hourly increment. The same career level (Principal Engineer) in these crafts have a midrange salary of $171200. This sounds good, but realize that the company moves the range to match the market, but doesn't change the pay of current employee into the new range. For example, if you were hired a few years ago when the midrange was $145k, and it moves to $160k, the company still only gives you a 3% cola, moving you to 145 + 3%. They do not adjust to the market for current employees at all- only COLA. By the time you pay the increased insurance premiums, the raise is a wash. This has left many of us under the pay range of hourly employees that we are supposed to be SMEs for. No OT for us. They have a PPO Health option that is covered 90/10, and the CDHP that's offered to salary employees is paid entirely by the company. Salary folks will pay $230 per check (bi-weekly x26) in 2026. They also get more in their HSA than we do (if they elect CDHP). Our retirement is pretty solid- there's get's an additional 1%. Union folks drive company vehicles home, and their pay begins when they start the engine in their driveway, then stops when they park in their driveway. We commute to various PDX locations on our dime, in our personal vehicles, including site visits that cover paid mileage, minus our normal commute. We all get a power discount- they dropped it from 25% to 15%. For the first time in history, we are losing folks to the only other adjacent utility. PGE used to be a funny acronym for "PPLs Good Employee". It's starting to go the other way.