Opinions wanted please - Where are all the arborists?

[krummholz]

The following is crude and imperfect, but it’s just meant to make a broad point.

We can compare the average base salary data for arborists with other manual jobs (requiring a similar level of skill and training IMO) available on another large recruitment site that also serves other industries – I’ll use Glassdoor.co.uk as an example for consistency;

Arborist £28,302

Forester £29,218

Tiler £31,445

Painter Decorator £32,791

Bricklayer £33,222

Rope Access Technician £36,140

Scaffolder £36,952

Given that Arborists and Foresters are more likely to suffer from injuries, fatal and non-fatal, than any of the other professions above, what incentives are there for people to enter into the industry? Or return after recovering from an injury?

Also, as an observation, the benefits offered for salaried arborist positions in job advertisements very rarely go beyond the statutory entitlements all workers have and that employers must legally provide i.e. 28 days paid holiday per annum (for a standard 5 day working week), statutory sick pay (£109.40 per week for a maximum of 28 weeks), enrolment on a pension. These statutory entitlements are often presented as perks.

@CTC Recruitment will have access to much better data on salaries offered for arborist positions, does the above figure seem right to you?

[5thelement]

I think the answer to the question asked is, “They are all working”.

There has never been so many Arborists.
They are either directly employed, provide regular subby roles to several companies or have set up on their own. 
There are no decent climbers/groundies that aren’t working in some form, they certainly aren’t registering on recruitment sites for work.

So the question should really be, “Where are all the unemployed Arborists?” as those are the people you are actually looking for.