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Not sure what your “herdsman” job entails but the starting pay here for someone with zero experience is £24k. It also includes housing or a housing subsidy and 7 on 2 off schedule.
That’s definitely in GBP not dollars?
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Not sure what your “herdsman” job entails but the starting pay here for someone with zero experience is £24k. It also includes housing or a housing subsidy and 7 on 2 off schedule.
That’s definitely in GBP not dollars?
I make it 12 milkings a week, but there is a lot more to the job than just milking, unless someone else is going to do the record keeping, foot trimming, grassland management, calving, vet work etc,etc etc
I think just leaving doesNo need to fight your corner. Just go somewhere else
All Bill's I'd pay forDoes your house include council tax paid? All bills paid?
Its 9 milking a week, would be 10 but gives me an afternoon to meter the whole farm. I'd do everythingI make it 12 milkings a week, but there is a lot more to the job than just milking, unless someone else is going to do the record keeping, foot trimming, grassland management, calving, vet work etc,etc etc
Herdswoman *That’s definitely in GBP not dollars?
I think just leaving does
All Bill's I'd pay for
Its 9 milking a week, would be 10 but gives me an afternoon to meter the whole farm. I'd do everything
Herdswoman *
Well that's the other thing I have a truck which I use on the farm when other vehicles aren't available, as self employed I never thought to ask for fuel but surely that should come into it now?It's not that far off is it?
Pushing a £30k package. What's the national average £22k and they still have to fund a house.
Throw a truck in as well I say.
On another note I bet the consultant never talks down their fees
Consultant will be looking at cost per litre, if there are no plans for expansion you will only get more if you add value. Work out your hours and demand a living wage i.e. £9/ hours which will likely equate to 26 K.I'm trying to grasp what my worth is as a herdsperson, going from a self employed acting herdsperson. I was finally presented a contract at 24K with a 3 bed house, day off a week and every other weekend off, 230 cows, NZ system. Would of said I was worth a minimum 26K but they insist the advice was from a farm consultan to be 24K. Would like some thoughts before I have to fight my corner.
id ask the farm consultant to take over your job, see how keen he is on 24kI'm trying to grasp what my worth is as a herdsperson, going from a self employed acting herdsperson. I was finally presented a contract at 24K with a 3 bed house, day off a week and every other weekend off, 230 cows, NZ system. Would of said I was worth a minimum 26K but they insist the advice was from a farm consultan to be 24K. Would like some thoughts before I have to fight my corner.
Consultant will be looking at cost per litre, if there are no plans for expansion you will only get more if you add value. Work out your hours and demand a living wage i.e. £9/ hours which will likely equate to 26 K.
Your'e not earning enough if your self employed and doing everything. You might also find that you should technically be employed. The inland revenue are getting quite hot on self employed people working full time for the same client. What sort of hours do you work and are your "employers" trying it on because you are female.Well that's the other thing I have a truck which I use on the farm when other vehicles aren't available, as self employed I never thought to ask for fuel but surely that should come into it now?
I have just screenshot that. Very very true.
Trouble is that the money has to come from somewhere, most people working at the sharp end of dairy farming are being underpaid, until money gets introduced by the consumer paying more for dairy product we get less each point until the person putting on cluster gets only the legal minimum. Until the industry wakes up to this basic point decline in dairy farming numbers is inevitable along with moral.
Well they said themselves they've never had anyone with so much get up and go about the job. But I'm not going to do the goddamn paper work and grass meter every 5 seconds when I'm not getting the herdsperson benefits.. like some well needed holiday pay! So that's there argument.I don't think they are showing you much respect pulling you down by £2k if your doing the complete job, you sound like an asset to the farm