Warning to other adjusters---(new or experienced) you should be paid more than Worley pays - Independent Adjuster Alacrity Solutions Employee Review

Worley began with pay rates significantly lower than other agencies were paying for the same work on the same deployment. When that fact became common knowledge Worley attempted to misrepresent it by multiple methods. Worley informed us that our health insurance rates were increasing due to obamacare but that they were giving us a $2 raise to make up the difference. What actually happened is that Worley subtracted a portion of their employer contribution to our insurance and added it to our pay instead. Our insurance rates did not go up because of obamacare and Worley did not give us a raise. Every one knows that is not a raise. Worley told us the gap between our pay and the other agency adjusters' pay was probably a rumor which was being investigated. A little over a month later Worley presented a merit increase they should have been embarrassed to even offer. Their justification for that was that Worley offers benefits and none of the other agencies do. That is not true. Some of the other agencies do offer benefits packages and the benefits do not even begin to close the pay gap, regardless. Worley was paying an average of 35% less than the highest paying agency on this deployment and the merit increase was an average of 2%. The team's morale and productivity dropped to an all time low and Worley did respond with a less insulting increase which brought our pay up to the lowest starting rate for inexperienced adjusters with the other agencies. The pay rates are still lower than the other agencies and some simple math shows how relatively inexpensive the benefits package is.