Average UK Salaries

[mistahclarke]

Garbage Alert

Health professionals are 12th in the list whereas
Health Professionals are 13th

- the capital letter making the difference presumably

Physicists, geologists and meteorologists are at 31

- because as we all know their jobs are pretty much identical.....

Taxation experts at 103 - not very bloody expert then?

367 Customer service occupations 14,741 -1.7
368 Customer Service Occupations 14,741 -1.7

372 Secretarial and related occupations 14,538 -1.0
373 Secretarial And Related Occupations 14,538 -1.0

 

[beorhthelm]

Yesterday on LBC a London tube driver called up to angrily point out their job, in terms of expertise, is far more akin to that of a commercial airline pilot, than a bus driver owing to the number of passengers they carry! That was his attempt at justifying his nearly £50k salary and perks! Greedy FOOL!!!

yeah, because piloting one of the most complex devices man has ever created is the same as pushing a lever and checking the doors a shut properly. something they fail at on an alarming number of occasions. sooner they switch to fully automated the better.

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

I've never really understood why train drivers get paid so well. Accepted you may get the occasional 'jumper' but I would guess that this does not happen to most drivers in their whole career. Many other workers face more stress on a daily basis.

What would you suggest is a suitable wage for a train driver

 

[Washboard Didgets]

I've never really understood why train drivers get paid so well. Accepted you may get the occasional 'jumper' but I would guess that this does not happen to most drivers in their whole career. Many other workers face more stress on a daily basis.

Yesterday on LBC a London tube driver called up to angrily point out their job, in terms of expertise, is far more akin to that of a commercial airline pilot, than a bus driver owing to the number of passengers they carry! That was his attempt at justifying his nearly £50k salary and perks! Greedy FOOL!!!

yeah, because piloting one of the most complex devices man has ever created is the same as pushing a lever and checking the doors a shut properly. something they fail at on an alarming number of occasions. sooner they switch to fully automated the better.

This...

A train/tube train runs on RAILS and can only go or stop along that route. A commercial airliner FLIES through the air, and has complex weather and navigation to contend with for starters.

Surely driving a tube train is no different when the the train is full or empty?! So using the number of passengers as justification is a joke. Go, stop, open doors, close doors, go, stop [repeat]. In fact driving a train has to be a lot less responsibility than driving a bus or HGV. No pedestrians, cyclists, motorists etc to contend with at all.

 

[cheesy77]

This...

A train/tube train runs on RAILS and can only go or stop along that route. A commercial airliner FLIES through the air, and has complex weather and navigation to contend with for starters.

Surely driving a tube train is no different when the the train is full or empty?! So using the number of passengers as justification is a joke. Go, stop, open doors, close doors, go, stop [repeat]. In fact driving a train has to be a lot less responsibility than driving a bus or HGV. No pedestrians, cyclists, motorists etc to contend with at all.

My dad is a pilot, and a plane can now taxi to the runway, take off, fly to the destination, land, and taxi to the gate all AUTOMATICALLY. They have to do a manual landing once in 6 flights or something just to keep their skills up, but most of the time they just sit there incase something goes wrong.

 

[Washboard Didgets]

My dad is a pilot, and a plane can now taxi to the runway, take off, fly to the destination, land, and taxi to the gate all AUTOMATICALLY. They have to do a manual landing once in 6 flights or something just to keep their skills up, but most of the time they just sit there incase something goes wrong.

Fair enough. But if something does go wrong in a plane the pilot has a lot more to do! You can't just pull on the emergency brake and brace yourself/close your eyes and wait for it to stop...

 

[Lady Whistledown]

58k for police officer! f*** me.

Not sure what rank that'd be- Chief Inspector & above I guess.

 

[jakarta]

Not sure what rank that'd be- Chief Inspector & above I guess.

No great surprise - I've heard all about this Overtime business.......

 

[slinky]

135 Buyers and purchasing officers 28,113 0.2

Well bugger me, DO NOT let my boss see that, because if that is the average, i am seriously over paid!!!

 

[Weststander]

Lawyers £44k? Garbage. Difficult to take that list seriously im afraid. It massively underestimates some job salaries.

The survey appears to just have just homed in on salaries of qualified staff lower down the levels, for example, excluding directors/partners/members and associates at Solicitors or Vets, thus excluding 100,000's on big money. Including these would in many professions bring the averages up massively.

 

[Weststander]

This table makes very interesting reading. It lists 422 jobs and the average salary for each one in 2011.
A Train Driver for example earnt on average 42.5k. A vet 33k. A member of the clergy 21.5k. A hairdresser 10k and a school crossing partrol person 3.5k.

Best paid jobs 2011: Tables of official figures for UK salaries | This is Money

Tube drivers currently £46,000, going to £52,000 in negotiated deal over 4 years.

 

[chimneys]

Tube drivers currently £46,000, going to £52,000 in negotiated deal over 4 years.

And that for a 35 hour week and 43 days holiday a year!!

It takes a whole 16 weeks to train as a tube driver!

Power to the people Bob!!

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

And that for a 35 hour week and 43 days holiday a year!!

It takes a whole 16 weeks to train as a tube driver!

Power to the people Bob!!

Chicken feed when compared to being a cop. 55k a year to eat donuts and hassle black people. One wonders why Bushy hasn't applied yet.

 

[chimneys]

Chicken feed when compared to being a cop. 55k a year to eat donuts and hassle black people. One wonders why Bushy hasn't applied yet.

 

[Pot noodles for everyone]

What would you suggest is a suitable wage for a train driver

£25,000 a year.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

No great surprise - I've heard all about this Overtime business.......

Officers above the rank of sergeant don't get paid overtime.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Officers above the rank of sergeant don't get paid overtime.

They do not need overtime on 55k a year.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Fair enough. But if something does go wrong in a plane the pilot has a lot more to do! You can't just pull on the emergency brake and brace yourself/close your eyes and wait for it to stop...

Shouting 'brace brace' as you plummet to earth does not seem much to me.

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

£25,000 a year.

Sad thing is in this race to the bottom,defeatist country of ours,some desperate fucker would probably do it for that.
By the way,how did you come to that figure?

 

[Pot noodles for everyone]

Sad thing is in this race to the bottom,defeatist country of ours,some desperate fucker would probably do it for that.
By the way,how did you come to that figure?

£25k is about the average salary for what is basically a piss easy job. I think that says a lot about train drivers when they think the UK average salary is desperate. Greedy fuckers.