To all you bosses - How much would you pay a day for a groundie?

[testcricket01]

a good groundy should be on the same as a good climbers salary if you ask me, climbers job may well be more skillful sometimes and more risky but working on the ground is just as hard work. i think it should be upwards of £100 any less and your doing it for peanuts which i think is just like slave labour, its a physically hard job. i treat people how id liked to be treated, i wouldnt work for nothing so i dont expect anyone else to simples.

[eggsarascal]

My question is this, to all of you who say £60 a day, could you live on this if you had a mortgage wife and kids? i have a couple of lads that help me out on the logs in the winter months on £60 a day but they have made their money doing ground work through the dry months and just want beer money to keep them through the winter when their work is slow, but theres no way anyone could live on that sort of money all year round.

[Billy]

This is why there ae various benefits and schems to help low earners, surely?

[Andy Collins]

If an acceptable living wage was paid to all workers, we wouldn't need anyone in this country to require benefits at all. If a sensible wage is paid, then more PAYE is taken, more NI is taken, but less is paid out, surely the country would actually get back up off its backside. Those who really need the money, elderly and real disabled, woudnt have to fight for every penny, as there would be more in the country's coffers.

[mal]

This is why there ae various benefits and schems to help low earners, surely?

 

there is but you have to be earning very little to apply, and you only get enough to pay rent and council tax, not a great quality of life, might aswell go work at tesco and earn more.

[eggsarascal]

This is why there ae various benefits and schems to help low earners, surely?

 

Ok so lets say your a single lad in your mid twentys with rent to pay on a flat, council tax, gas, electric and day to day living, you would'nt get any benefits. How do you survive on £60 a day?

[timtree81]

£80 to £100

 

That is crazy money £100 for a ground worker ..£500 a week ?£2000 a month

[farmer_ben]

Ok so lets say your a single lad in your mid twentys with rent to pay on a flat, council tax, gas, electric and day to day living, you would'nt get any benefits. How do you survive on £60 a day?

 

you dont, well not for very long

[Billy]

Ok so lets say your a single lad in your mid twentys with rent to pay on a flat, council tax, gas, electric and day to day living, you would'nt get any benefits. How do you survive on £60 a day?

 

So lets say yuour running a business with a truck, chipper, various saws, climbing gear, lowering gear,PPE,fuel, insurance and so on to pay along with the above...How are are you meant to pay an employed groundy £100 a day and stay in business...and live a decent quality of life...Whch is why we set up in business, to earn more than you do at Tesco's and buy nice things. Its hard times and everyones taken a hit with their earnings, just th way it is imo.

[eggsarascal]

That is crazy money £100 for a ground worker ..£500 a week ?£2000 a month

 

believe it or not tim £500 a week is probably the least most people would need to live on (without benefits). What are your domestic outgoings each week?