Fair pay for young lad

[Jerry]

I had a young lad, 15 years old, help out for a couple days at shearing.

Hes not from a farming background, Dad's a vet, but hes worked on couple local farms for a few years and knows whats what. He is also desperate to farm......(sheep.....poor lad)....in the future.

He said he did not want paying, wanted the experience, but he earnt a decent days pay for long days and putting the effort in.

He helped gather the ewes, and did all the wool handling.

I did feed and water him but I feel he should get some financial reward as well.

Whats a fair £ for him?

 

[delilah]

He can have the wool chq. Prepare him for his chosen career .

Joshing. £40/day.

 

[Jerry]

He can have the wool chq. Prepare him for his chosen career .

Joshing. £40/day.

Some how I dont think that would put him off.....hes sheep mad!

 

[czechmate]

40/50

 

[Lewis821]

£100 for the 2 days, certainly sounds like he deserves it from his attitude alone, dont see that motivation and work ethic alot these days

 

[dudders]

Make him pay you.

If you pay him, he'll curse you in 20 years' time: "that Jerry made me think there was money in this sheep game!"

 

[Farmer Palmer]

Yeah I think 40/50 a day

 

[4course]

if as said his dads a vet then pay him 1/20 th of the hourly rate his dad would charge that will encourage the keen to work lad to make the right life choices

 

[PSQ]

if as said his dads a vet then pay him 1/20 th of the hourly rate his dad would charge that will encourage the keen to work lad to make the right life choices

Or in other words, £50 a day... ?
- and if his dads taught him to do Cesarians, £60.

 

[4course]

Or in other words, £50 a day... ?
- and if his dads taught him to do Cesarians, £60.

ha ha ,but seriously how much do folks think the take home pay of the average ( if there is such a thing) farmer be paying himself/hour

 

[PSQ]

ha ha ,but seriously how much do folks think the take home pay of the average ( if there is such a thing) farmer be paying himself/hour

If you include the non cash items like not paying domestic rent or mortgage, council tax, commercial vehicle (pickup), phone, fuel, heat and light, farm house repairs etc all through the books, then it’s certainly a lot more than we kid ourselves we ‘take home’ in cash drawings.

£50 a day for the lad would go a long way to building up some goodwill and future work opportunities, and he sounds like he’s a good lad to have around.

 

[CPF]

not £50 for 18 hrs working day =£ 2.77p h I would pay him £5.75 per hr worked .

 

[yellow belly]

Give him the value in ewe then he will learn the economics
if he is keen in 20 yers he will have a lot of sheep

 

[PSQ]

Give him the value in Apple or Berkshire Hathaway shares, and in 20 years he won’t have to think about sheep.

 

[Eiddwen]

If you include the non cash items like not paying domestic rent or mortgage, council tax, commercial vehicle (pickup), phone, fuel, heat and light, council tax, farm house repairs etc all through the books, then it’s certainly a lot more than we kid ourselves we ‘take home’ in cash drawings.

£50 a day for the lad would go a long way to building up some goodwill and future work opportunities, and he sounds like he’s a good lad to have around.

I'm well impressed, how come you're getting away with putting the council tax through the books twice?!!

 

[Dukes Fit]

Pay him what you would pay a man. Simple.

If he did the work of a man then he’s earned the pay of a man and if he’s only 15 then he probably had to work harder for it.

 

[averageguy54]

I agree with that, if you feel he did a man's work, then he is entitled to a man's wages. Age shouldn't matter.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Give him another couple of days work then give him a couple of gimmer lambs to set him off

 

[Jerry]

Give him another couple of days work then give him a couple of gimmer lambs to set him off

He already has a few ewes and a decent ram. Only interested in Texals as a breed though.

 

[Gedd]

£10 an hour if he's done the job of a man if you'd had to hire a man what would you of paid him