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30th June 2022, 14:43 | #11 | |
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Hopefully you and I can find middle ground. There are wages that are on the face of it ridiculous but how do you compare an office cleaner to a surgeon when it comes to pay? A loaf of bread and a tube of toothpaste costs the both the same 15k seems low, what do they do and how many hours do they work? We have professions that we under value. We have people that make it into the top 5% of wealth by hard work and being careful and not by being high earners and I hope you will appreciate their efforts and not look to take it away. macafee2 |
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30th June 2022, 16:15 | #12 | |
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Well done for that mate. I'm helping a niece who is going through a messy divorce, not on the same scale though. Respect man, respect. |
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30th June 2022, 16:16 | #13 | |
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The technician's published pay is around £19k pro-rata for an official 35-37 hours per week (excluding lunch break etc.) So in reality a 40-hour week. But the pay is reduced pro-rata because of the summer break down to 38-40 weeks, reducing the actual pay to £15k. The same occurs with teacher's pay - it's similarly reduced from the published pay scales. As a wealthy nation we have no excuse for not paying a living wage to anyone - this is probably around £12 per-hour i.e £23k PA. Your surgeon or CEO of say an education trust or a university vice-chancellor earning £100k to £120k max would be paid a premium of a 4-5 multiplying factor to account for the education and skill level. As it is, vice-chancellors often earn £400k to £500k PA! Overall, we are suffering from an industial scale mutual appreciation at senior management levels resulting in excessive pay increases. It was announced last week that Birmingham Airport's Chief Executive received a 49% pay increase to take his salary to a mere £595k PA - at a time that these airports are unable to provide basic services to their customers!
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30th June 2022, 16:21 | #14 |
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Number of my former colleagues earned somewhat in excess of £100k. Boy they worked for it and if they made a mistake people could get killed. Besides some folk need to be motivated and sadly for them it's money.
As for the original point, I don't think it's right. We're looking at properties around the country and the odd one pops up that has a clause in the sale that it must go to a farm worker? Not sure of the solution though, it's their money. |
30th June 2022, 16:27 | #15 | |
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I know many people who have earned over £100k PA and worked extremely hard for it. Equally, I also know many professionals who earn between £15k and £35k and work at least as hard. As for the sale to a farm worker, this will be due to a covenant on the use of the building. It is not unknown for farmers to sell farm worker cottages off and then a few years later apply to build a house on the land to provide accommodation for a farm worker!
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