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[waterbuoy]

If the average salary is around £34/35k then more than half the workforce will be below this as those with a higher salary can have significantly higher salaries - ie the distribution is not statistically 'normal'.  Most people with salaries less than £35k are likely to be in a relatively narrow band between (say) £10k and £35k, whereas those above the average can go much higher.

 

The greater the disparity in pay the more skewed the distribution becomes.

 

For example, two people with a salary of £30k and one with a salary of £45k generate an average salary of £35k

 

Whereas six people with a salary of £20k plus one with a salary of £125k give the same average.

 

 

[Johnsond]

18 minutes ago, Steven P said:

that is OK, I will forget oil and gas (UK average £50,000, Forbes), Construction (UK average 38,000 Reed), Welding ( £32,000 Reed), Lifting Ops (£38,000 Glasssdoor), Aerospace engineering (45,800 checkasalary), IT: (£44,733 statistica) and Finance (£48,197 statistica)

 

With the UK average salary around £34,900 (2024, Forbes) most of the people you meet will have a salary of under £100,00 and even £60,000, in fact half of them it will be under £35,000, in fact most couples will be under £60k combined salaries.

 

23 minutes ago, Steven P said:

that is OK, I will forget oil and gas (UK average £50,000, Forbes), Construction (UK average 38,000 Reed), Welding ( £32,000 Reed), Lifting Ops (£38,000 Glasssdoor), Aerospace engineering (45,800 checkasalary), IT: (£44,733 statistica) and Finance (£48,197 statistica)

 

With the UK average salary around £34,900 (2024, Forbes) most of the people you meet will have a salary of under £100,00 and even £60,000, in fact half of them it will be under £35,000, in fact most couples will be under £60k combined salaries.

Do you have much real life experience rather than google and statistics?. Those numbers are crap. I don’t know anyone who does a 35-40hr week, I guess a lot depends on who you associate with in regards most people you meet. Most people I know are grafting hard and making good money, often 100k plus. Are they rich,absolutely not, what they are is hard working people who have trained themselves up and often as not sacrifice time with family etc to pull in good money. Those sacrifices unfortunately are not reflected in the brutal levels of taxation we are hit with. 

[topchippyles]

Load's of the lads I work with in construction earn 100K plus. I do a few shifts for a shop fitting firm it's £400 for an easy night 

Edited March 23, 2024 by topchippyles

[Steven P]

OK If that is what you say then it must be true

[Steven P]

(and noting the average salaries I quoted above are irrespective of hours worked, they include all)

[topchippyles]

7 minutes ago, Steven P said:

(and noting the average salaries I quoted above are irrespective of hours worked, they include all)

Stick to Google 🤣

[Botty Cough]

8 hours ago, topchippyles said:

Stick to Google 🤣

Yeah

 

Arb managers jobs being advertised at the moment for upwards of £50k and that's a basic job.

[Steven P]

2 hours ago, Botty Cough said:

Yeah

 

Arb managers jobs being advertised at the moment for upwards of £50k and that's a basic job.

 

I don't think anyone is disputing that there are well paid jobs out there but they are the minority, a manager on 50k is 1 person, the team they manage could be what, 6 to 12 people? Cannot all be managers, someone has to do the work.

 

 

I have always taken salary, job, workload and lifestyle as a sliding scale. Earn nothing and you have all the time in the world to do what you want (not necessarily the money to do it though), earn 100k and more and you have all the money in the world but no life to enjoy it (OK nice house, but if all you do is sleep in it what is the point). Somewhere in the middle there is a happy point for us all, the trade off between wages and no life, or a life but no wages equalises with job satisfaction. 12 hour days, or working away from home and you never see the kids grow up and develop, you are just a lodger to them, regardless of the cash you bring in.

[Johnsond]

16 minutes ago, Steven P said:

 

I don't think anyone is disputing that there are well paid jobs out there but they are the minority, a manager on 50k is 1 person, the team they manage could be what, 6 to 12 people? Cannot all be managers, someone has to do the work.

 

 

I have always taken salary, job, workload and lifestyle as a sliding scale. Earn nothing and you have all the time in the world to do what you want (not necessarily the money to do it though), earn 100k and more and you have all the money in the world but no life to enjoy it (OK nice house, but if all you do is sleep in it what is the point). Somewhere in the middle there is a happy point for us all, the trade off between wages and no life, or a life but no wages equalises with job satisfaction. 12 hour days, or working away from home and you never see the kids grow up and develop, you are just a lodger to them, regardless of the cash you bring in.

I average 4-5 months a year off at home, I’ve worked on jobs close to  home doing 8-10-12hr shifts. You are up and away before kids are up and back late. Eat sleep work 🤮absolutely crap. As much as it has its disadvantages it’s worked well enough for me. 

[Botty Cough]

3 hours ago, Johnsond said:

I average 4-5 months a year off at home, I’ve worked on jobs close to  home doing 8-10-12hr shifts. You are up and away before kids are up and back late. Eat sleep work 🤮absolutely crap. As much as it has its disadvantages it’s worked well enough for me. 

Finally a sensible worker.

I too manage 4 months a year or so , mostly doing house upgrades.

During the 7 months a year I work full time I make an absolute wad.

Spread it out over 12 months. During my rest months I spend a bit of time repairing kit and pissing off numptys on the internet 😂😂😂😂