Wages fair pay

[peatff]

I can't see how anybody could live on less.

 

Certainly not old chap, pass the caviar and quails eggs and top up my Bolly would you

[eggsarascal]

Aspirational perhaps, but not in reality which is closer to:

 

http://m.westbriton.co.uk/time-wages-Cornwall-25-average-UK/story-11462320-detail/story.html

 

You'd have to be 200/day to be doing 1000/week. The many "pay" threads on here don't seem to suggest it's realistic for PAYE staff?

 

I'm not disagreeing about the need for that level Eggs, just can't see that it's actually available??

 

It's not available Kevin. I was leg pulling from the outset.

 

If someone was on £30k/year PAYE I think it would be about right. £30k after tax leaves around £24k if my fag packet maths are correct. £2k a month, maybe a van (for business use/to and from work) and paid holidays doesn't sound to far out to me.

 

What da you think?

 

All base on the person in question being copatent at the job they are doing.

Edited October 13, 2015 by eggsarascal

[benedmonds]

If someone was on £30k/year PAYE I think it would be about right.

 

All base on the person in question being copatent at the job they are doing.

 

Not realistic IMO.. 18-24k more likely round here.

 

Maybe top end as your doing long days and in the SE

Edited October 13, 2015 by benedmonds

[Gray git]

Good luck getting that in the north unless on for a top high flyer company with big fixt term contracts with local authorities or military. What Ben said is more likely.

[eggsarascal]

So, the lads out there in all weathers are worth £22k a year, on average.

 

Grey git, John, I've just googled a few jobs in Richmond, Electricians £35-40k/year, plumbers £35-40k/year. Drains man 35-40k/year.

 

What's going on in your industry?

[Joe Newton]

So, the lads out there in all weathers are worth £22k a year, on average.

 

 

 

Grey git, John, I've just googled a few jobs in Richmond, Electricians £35-40k/year, plumbers £35-40k/year. Drains man 35-40k/year.

 

 

 

What's going on in your industry?

 

 

Being poor keeps us humble.

 

For what it's worth I'm an employed team leader/lead climber, and I'm somewhere in the bracket that Ben mentioned. Similar area too.

[Gray git]

So, the lads out there in all weathers are worth £22k a year, on average.

 

Grey git, John, I've just googled a few jobs in Richmond, Electricians £35-40k/year, plumbers £35-40k/year. Drains man 35-40k/year.

 

What's going on in your industry?

 

But they are skilled workers with lots of training and expensive gear aren't they......

Well at least that's what a lot of customers perceive up here still if you get my meaning.

Between being lumped just above a farmer with a saw for logs we struggle with a lot of flare up company's that don't last luckily coming from army leavers starting up without a clue undervalueing the work. Don't get me wrong we do OK and have some very good clients who value what we do and are willing to pay proper rates but unfortunately not every day. If i was to start paying 2 lads 35k each a year + holiday etc I'd have to double my work load which would need more men so more wages so more work etc etc I'd also have to become the boss I don't want to be counting ever minute of brake times start times, chasing people out the yard to avoid overtime, no more we're finished at 2.30 let's go back to the yard and sharpen saws nd was van's it'd be onto another job quick quick.

I've worked for companies like that and got paid for it but it's not sustainable.

[Billy]

So, the lads out there in all weathers are worth £22k a year, on average.

 

 

 

Grey git, John, I've just googled a few jobs in Richmond, Electricians £35-40k/year, plumbers £35-40k/year. Drains man 35-40k/year.

 

 

 

What's going on in your industry?

 

 

We're not any of those trades. Also the industry is plagued with small firms undervaluing the work...For a start.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

It's not available Kevin. I was leg pulling from the outset.

 

If someone was on £30k/year PAYE I think it would be about right. £30k after tax leaves around £24k if my fag packet maths are correct. £2k a month, maybe a van (for business use/to and from work) and paid holidays doesn't sound to far out to me.

 

What da you think?

 

All base on the person in question being copatent at the job they are doing.

 

 

Rascal!

 

I'm not sure I want to think about what a copatent person might spend most of the day doing though!!!

 

😬😷😱

[Gary Prentice]

We're not any of those trades. Also the industry is plagued with small firms undervaluing the work...For a start.

 

If we want to be paid as professionals we need to act as professionals, until then we're one step up from the lad cutting the grass for £10.00 a week.

 

Join the AA, look at compliance and AAAC and raise the profile of the industry to get the better money.

 

Stop topping trees, "cos if I don't someone else will":sneaky2: and doing other butchery because the customer is always right. We do it to ourselves then bemoan the fact that we are undervalued!