How to Read Your FedEx Ground Schedule C Rate Card

Your Schedule C is the pricing engine of your FedEx Ground contract: the document that says what you get paid for each kind of work. It is also the single most useful piece of paper for checking a weekly settlement — and one many contractors haven't looked at since signing. This article walks through what's on it, how the charges are structured, and how to put it to work.

What it is

The Schedule C (you may see it as an attachment, e.g. an "Attachment C-1") is the rate card inside your Independent Service Provider Agreement. Where Schedule A defines your service territory and other schedules cover terms and conditions, Schedule C lists the specific charges FedEx pays you: the charge name, how it's triggered, and the rate. Every fixed dollar figure on your weekly settlement traces back to a line on this document. When your contract is amended — a renegotiation, a MESO acceptance, an added supplemental — the rates change here.

The charge types you'll see

• Per-stop charges. Paid per stop serviced. Because a stop can involve one package or ten, stop-based compensation rewards route density.
• Activity-based / per-package charges. Paid per unit of activity — packages handled, pickups performed, and similar. Your settlement's volume lines multiply against these rates.
• E-commerce charges. Separate rates for e-commerce-classified volume, which is why your statement breaks those packages out from the rest.
• Fixed and recurring items. Weekly or periodic amounts that don't vary with volume — service charges, brand-related items, and other flat components, each with a stated frequency (weekly, daily, per-occurrence).
• Peak or surge components. Seasonal additions with their own effective windows, if your agreement includes them.

One formatting note if you pull the document from the MyBizAccount portal: the printed layout can run the charge label, its frequency, and the rate together into one dense line. Read carefully — the frequency matters as much as the rate. A daily charge and a weekly charge with similar names are very different money over a year.

Getting a current copy

The copy that matters is the one currently in force, not the one from onboarding. If you've amended your contract since signing, rates on the original are stale. Download the current version from the FedEx portal or request it from your Business Support Manager, and note which CSA it belongs to — if you operate multiple entities, each CSA has its own rate card, and comparing a settlement against the wrong entity's card is a classic source of false alarms.

Using it to check a settlement

The core reconciliation is simple in concept: for each volume line on the settlement, divide dollars paid by units performed and compare the effective rate to the Schedule C rate for that charge, for that CSA. Three cautions from doing this on real statements:

• Match entity to entity. Settlement CSA code to rate card CSA. Cross-entity comparisons produce phantom discrepancies.
• Skip the fuel line. The fuel rate floats by design and has no fixed Schedule C reference to check against.
• Treat mismatches as questions. A difference is something to flag for review with your Business Support Manager — there may be an amendment, a reclassification, or a timing explanation you don't have in front of you.

Keeping the card on file

This check is only useful if it happens every week, against the current card. That's the workflow Route Impact automates: upload your Schedule C once and the platform keeps it on file, compares every settlement's effective rates against it line by line — matched by CSA code — and flags anything that doesn't line up for your review, with the evidence attached. Doable by hand in a spreadsheet; the platform just never skips a week.