Pay

[Mountain man]

Is it the employers keeping wages down in the Arb industry or is it the mass amount competition out there!

 

I feel that it is the most underpaid trade for the skill and effort it takes to carry out good tree work!

 

Yes they all get together and have meetings to laugh about how little to pay climbers.

 

It's called a free market economy.

[benedmonds]

I feel that it is the most underpaid trade for the skill and effort it takes to carry out good tree work!

 

I think that's pretty good money for on the books. It is down here in Dorset anyway. Works out at roughly £24k a year for a climber with 2 years experience which is not bad.

 

I have posted this before in one of these threads, but if your on 24K a year with two years experience I think you are doing very well! Graduate nurses start at £22K and you have what 4 weeks training and a few years experience.. Not knocking you.. just compare that to the time a nurse has put in..

 

Compare to other jobs

 

Secretaries £16,384 (+1.1%)

Cabbies £16,416 (+4.6%)

Customer service £16,525 (+9.5%)

Undertakers £16,526 (0%)

Packers £16,820 (-0.4%)

Tele sales £17,362 (-1.1%)

Chefs £17,391 (+0.3%)

Gardeners £17,595 (-1.3%)

Street cleaners £17,616 (-3.8%)

Butchers £17,681 (+1.2%)

Hospital porters £17,748 (+5.8%)

Farm workers £17,925 (+4.9)

Traffic wardens £18,065 (-4.2%)

Travel agents £18,344 (+10.7%)

Van drivers £18,744 (+2.9%)

Tyre & exhaust fitters £18,888 (-4.2%)

Bank clerks £19,908 (+9.3%)

Youth & Community workers £20,240 (+2.6%)

Civil servants £20,330 +1.2%

Council administrators £20,351 (+2.9%)

Vicars £20,568 (-3.6%)

Security guards £20,841 (+2.2%)

Plasterers £21,155 (+0.1%)

Lab technicians £21,168 (+0.2%)

Fork lift drivers £21,444 (+0.3%)

Musicians £21,492 (+6.8%)

Roofers £21,921 (-1.5%)

Bricklayers £22,476 (-7.0%)

Painters £22,700 (+1.9%)

Ambulance staff £22,854 (+5.6%)

Housing officers £23,001 (-0.6%)

Bus & coach drivers £23,095 (+3.0%)

Posties & messengers £23,178 (+17.5%)

Librarians £23,940 (-0.3%)

Carpenters £24,029 (+1.4%)

Photographers £24,242 (-4.8%)

Farmers £24,520 (+5.5%)

Estate agents £24,783 (-8.2%)

Publicans £25,222 (+10.7%)

Mechanics £25,238 (-0.7%)

Lorry drivers £25,602 (+1.4%)

[Jammydogg]

£24k...two years experience..on the books...DREAM

[TIMON]

£24k...two years experience..on the books...DREAM

 

 

Glad it's going well for you!

[Jammydogg]

Glad it's going well for you!

 

 

Hahaha Timon I'm not on that...was quoting the thread topic, it would be a dream! £19,742for me I'm afraid.

 

I mus get that cheque to u pal 👍

[devon TWiG]

Ben Edmonds ..... a lorry driver might make 25k per annum but that will be for 55-60 hour weeks and stupid o clock start times !!

[TIMON]

Hahaha Timon I'm not on that...was quoting the thread topic, it would be a dream! £19,742for me I'm afraid.

 

I mus get that cheque to u pal 👍

 

 

No worries!!

[stuartc44]

Ben Edmonds ..... a lorry driver might make 25k per annum but that will be for 55-60 hour weeks and stupid o clock start times !!

 

But no more than 90 hours in two consecutive weeks. So nearer to 45 a week.

[AlexB]

But no more than 90 hours in two consecutive weeks. So nearer to 45 a week.

 

 

Ummm close but no cigar, that's just driving. A shift can be upto 15 hours long.

[Mark Bolam]

It shouldn't be about the money, but when you get older with more responsibilities it's all about the money.

I was lucky that I bought a house in the 90s. I couldn't afford a bedsit now.

 

My SE groundie Stevo does his own bits and is a proper switched on grafter. He probably pulls about £30k.

Second kid on the way, he'd like to buy a 3 bed house, but they're going for about £220k minimum round here, so the maths doesn't work.

 

It's the same for a lot of trades as Ben points out, not just ours.

 

I disagree about musicians though.

£21k?

I was chatting to Sir McCartney the other day in his private jet and he reckons he's on more.

 

 

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