How's the job as a bank escort?

Disadvantages: high strength, continuous rotation, poor living and low salary.

generally, a car is equipped with four escorts and two shotguns, each with three or four bullets. We often see escorts wearing camouflage uniforms and shotguns by ATM machines on the roadside. More or less, we all "walk around the point". Compared with the general security personnel, they give people a more "mighty" feeling. "In our eyes, escort is a mysterious industry." The head of a joint-stock bank office told reporters when talking about the strike of Zhongshan escorts.

The only task of bank escorts is to safely take back the money (put it in the vault) and deliver it safely (for example, put it in the ATM). It can be said that they are more likely to be dissatisfied with their "low income" after dealing with huge amounts of cash for a long time. The media also used the headline that "the army of money carriers spends hundreds of millions of dollars a day on cash with a monthly salary of only 2, yuan" to compare the mismatch between their income and the industries they are exposed to.

If the escort with a gun is a little bigger, he still looks dignified.

On the one hand, people can enhance their self-confidence by holding guns; On the other hand, long-term immersion in the banking industry may stimulate the desire for wealth. These two aspects affect "our income is low" and "our life is not decent", which will only worsen our understanding.

However, according to the "market" pricing, bank escorts can only get so much at present.

Judging from the recruitment information of various escort companies, they are recruiting the most common security guards.

Taking the largest security service enterprise in Beijing as an example, the conditions for Beijing Zhenyuan to recruit bank escorts are: 1. Male, aged 19-35, able to accept closed militarized management, and veterans are preferred; 2, junior high school education or above, can speak Mandarin; 3. He is over 1.68 meters tall, with regular facial features, good health, no obvious scars and no tattoos; 4, no mental illness, personality disorder, no history of chronic diseases and infectious diseases; 5, no misdeeds, no criminal record.

this recruitment condition can be summed up in four words: "male, young". This is no different from the requirement of any enterprise to recruit security guards. As for "veterans first", this is an expectation of escort companies, and such people are often valued in escort companies, and the upward path is relatively smooth. However, according to an industry insider in Guangzhou, "many years ago, escorts were basically veterans. Now it is difficult to recruit veterans because of the salary problem."

According to the person in charge of Zhongshan Escort Branch, which also went on strike last year, nearly half of the company's escorts are recruited from social youth, and they can take up their posts with guns after 6 days of training.

From the point of view of occupational hazards, they are not even more dangerous than ordinary security guards, as advertised.

As long as a certain type of work is associated with maintaining "safety", we often think that such work is "unsafe". But statistics may not support this understanding.

When the media reported the strike, it was generally mentioned that the escort business was risky, which was intended to show that it was even more unreasonable for escorts to have "low income". But are bank escorts in China really high-risk? Judging from the two attributes of holding a gun and protecting money, it does give people this feeling. However, there are only a handful of cases in which China robbed a bank cash truck in recent years. After combing, from 23 to now, there have been only four cases in which the escort was shot and died (incomplete statistics), two of which were the Guangzhou escort's gun fire incident on February 8 this year and the Chengdu China Bank escort's gun fire incident in 211; Another case was that both the escort and the driver of a bank in Handan were shot dead last year, but the result of the investigation afterwards was that the escort committed suicide after shooting the driver because of personal contradictions. Only in 23, Hubei Qianjiang robbed a bank with a gun, resulting in the death of two bank escorts on the spot.

Generally speaking, there is no evidence to support that bank escorts belong to high-risk occupations. In the big field of security, they are not necessarily more dangerous than the security guards in the community. For example, the security guards in the community have to work night shifts, and they may encounter "dangerous sources" such as thieves and fights that escorts are not easy to encounter.

judging from the labor intensity and living conditions, the security practitioners as a whole are "strong, working around the clock and living poorly".

In addition to complaining about low income, bank escorts are also dissatisfied with the labor intensity and living environment (welfare) under low income. "Accommodation is very poor, with 2 people living in a dormitory of about 2 square meters and 1 bunk beds; There are 5 beds in the dormitory for 1 people, only about 1 square meters. I have to get up at 6 o'clock in the morning and get off work at 8 o'clock in the evening, and I can only rest for a little time. "

however, in the security industry, the overall rule is to get up early and be greedy for the dark, work in two shifts and live in collective dormitories, which is determined by the characteristics of the security industry as a service industry. We certainly haven't seen security guards in China who work from nine to five, have weekends and have company dormitories. It is not that security guards in China should not be treated like this, but in a fully competitive market environment, due to your substitutability and relatively cheap manpower, it has gradually evolved into such an industry mechanism.

under the above circumstances, the overall income of bank escorts has been higher than that of security groups, and there is not much room for growth.

According to Xie Qiang, a escort of this strike, if he only takes four days off every month, his monthly salary is about 3,1 yuan. According to the survey data of a recruitment agency in Guangzhou at the end of 213, the average salary of security guards in Guangzhou is 2525 yuan/month.

According to the statistics of a recruitment agency in Guangzhou, at the end of 213, the monthly income of security guards in Guangzhou was between 2, and 3,.

Look at the data of Beijing and Shanghai. According to the recruitment information of large-scale classified websites nationwide, the starting salary of bank escorts in Beijing is between 3,5 and 4,5 yuan, which is at least higher than that of security guards in the same city.

Looking at the data of a large human resources institution in China in 213, we can find that the escort is in the highest position by comparing the income of the Bank of Beijing's escort and other security groups (security guards, supervisors, captains, etc.) after three years' work.

based on the escort company's low requirements for the recruitment of escorts, the danger of escorts is not as great as imagined, the security groups to which escorts belong are generally high-intensity and low-welfare, and based on the fact that the income of escorts has exceeded the average level among security groups at present, it is not difficult to find that there is not much room for a salary increase for escorts, judging from the whole industry.

even if the monopoly of local government departments on the escort industry is liberalized, it may not be able to increase the income of escorts.

There is only one escort company in one place, so the escorts have less bargaining space.

most financial escort services in Guangzhou are undertaken by suibao escort. According to the official website of Suibao Escort, the company currently provides services for 16 professional banks including China, agriculture, industry, construction and communications, with a market coverage rate of 9% in Guangzhou, and provides escort services for expressway toll stations, gas stations and dozens of enterprises and institutions in and around Guangzhou.

what's the background of suibao escort, which covers the financial escort business in Guangzhou? Official website of the company shows that Suibao Escort is an escort agency directly led and managed by Guangzhou Public Security Bureau.

In fact, at present, most of the escort companies in China are self-run enterprises of local public security systems, and corporate legal persons are generally the heads of public security departments of local public security systems. Another example is Zhenyuan Guard Center in Beijing, which is under the direct leadership and management of Beijing Public Security Bureau. It is the only enterprise in Beijing that provides professional armed escort and guard services.

China's banks have implemented the market-oriented reform of custody business for more than ten years, but according to Ma Weihua, president of China Merchants Bank, the effect is little. He believes that "the public security background of escort companies is still profound. Although the Regulations on the Administration of Security Services clearly stipulates that public security organs should withdraw from the escort business, allow qualified escort companies to operate across regions, and open the escort service market to various types of capital, at present, the operation mode of the escort market in most areas is still that public security organs at the prefecture or county level set up escort companies to take charge of the escort work within their respective jurisdictions, and the application of social capital to participate in the new escort company has basically not been approved."

In the case that there is only one escort company in one place, the escorts who are familiar with the escort business can only "hang themselves from a tree", which reduces the chances of job-hopping and the bargaining space.

However, increasing the number of escort companies will also dilute the company's profits, which will also affect the bargaining power of escorts.

Then, will the market-oriented reform of the escort industry benefit the income of escorts? Not necessarily. Because Ma Weihua once complained that "there is only one escort company in one place" makes banks "suffer from the disorderly increase in the fees of custody services". That is to say, if the escort industry is market-oriented, the bargaining power of banks will be improved, and the profits of escort companies will be less. So, although employees have more job-hopping opportunities, they will jump to companies with low profits everywhere, and there is not much room for income growth.

If "voting with your feet" fails, "voting with your hands" becomes a means.

in addition to the market, you can also "vote by hand" to increase your income.

Job-hopping is the most direct way for employees to express their dissatisfaction with enterprises, commonly known as "voting with their feet", which is a market-oriented means; Putting pressure on the management to raise wages and benefits by means of go-slow, stop work and strike is called "voting by hand". Worldwide, workers generally rely on "hands and feet" to increase their income. This escort strike, which ended with a general wage increase in 6 yuan, shows the effectiveness of "using both hands and feet".