Why does tree work pay so bad in comparison to other trades?

[RexPayne]

Just taken a full time gardening job on a permanent contract. Salary + overtime + sick pay + holiday pay + pension. Less hours, less stressful, easier work than the tree work i have been doing for past 6 years. So how come it pays £4000 more per year? Just doesnt make sense to me.

[Mick Dempsey]

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Supply and demand.

[Stephen Blair]

didnt think gardeners got £14k a year!

[RichieR]

Hi Rex you haven't tried managing a holiday park then

[simonm]

Level of pay in any job depends on your qualifications, your own personal motivation and so on. I've worked with lads who would moan about how little they were getting paid, but refused to put themselves out to gain more skills which in turn would lead to better pay!

[Tree Man Tom]

You were obviously doing something wrong. I earn a good living from tree work.

[Starscream]

Level of pay in any job depends on your qualifications, your own personal motivation and so on. I've worked with lads who would moan about how little they were getting paid, but refused to put themselves out to gain more skills which in turn would lead to better pay!

 

Oh mate, they're in abundance! There's one lad at work who can drive but won't drive for the firm, which would put his wage up by at least £50 a week instantly... Yet he's always telling us how skint he is! Just doesn't want any responsibility I suppose. But then again, we need people like him.. Too many chiefs and all that.

[Joe Newton]

Oh mate, they're in abundance! There's one lad at work who can drive but won't drive for the firm, which would put his wage up by at least £50 a week instantly... Yet he's always telling us how skint he is! Just doesn't want any responsibility I suppose. But then again, we need people like him.. Too many chiefs and all that.

 

 

Sod paying him extra, tell him he'll drive of you'll find somebody else who will!

 

Should you pay people extra because they drive the work vans?

[Will C]

like mick said its supply and demand and there is always a plentiful supply of lads thinking they will earn twice as much going it alone and giving up after 6 months cause they can't make a go of it in the mean time they all undercut the established people keeping prices lower. That said most of us started like that, it's only the driven few that make it, most of them will admit they didn't charge enough when they started out.

[simonm]

Oh mate, they're in abundance! There's one lad at work who can drive but won't drive for the firm, which would put his wage up by at least £50 a week instantly... Yet he's always telling us how skint he is! Just doesn't want any responsibility I suppose. But then again, we need people like him.. Too many chiefs and all that.

 

Suppose it depends what you want out of life, some people are happy earning nowt as they don't want the responsibility, i was called allsorts at 1 place i worked for passing my hgv and getting hiab ticket, because if meant while all the plonkers were getting piss wet through on £6.50 an hour i could load up and disappear for a few hours on £12 an hour. Some of it comes down to the firm also not everyone wants to train lads up because they only want a branch dragger on minimum wage.