Staff salary / hourly wage?

[Weasel]

I’ve posted this before but honestly don’t know why so many of you won’t post about money….


Over two Ltd companies i run I get a combined salary of £45,000, with a free house and utilities out of one buisness and a free car and fuel out of the other.

I employ two members of staff on my side of the farming business (we will forget brothers dairy side for now) both don’t have accommodation as they live locally and are on £15/ hr time and a half after 39 hours. Both work 8-5 m-f with overtime as and when needed.

On the HGV’s it’s a mixed bag depending on experience and age but I would say the average is about £16/hr time and a half after 39 hours and a night out bonus of £30 per night in the truck. And again no accommodation provided, although they do run there digi card out every week and max out there hours.

What do you haul with your lorry's?

 

[ollie989898]

Yep definitely more to life than just high wages, as long as people can get by with what they earn and are happy in what they do.

How much do you get paid for all the farmwork you do between medical training Ollie?

Overtime at a higher rate or flat 18.50.
Seems good depending on the role.

I only rarely do farm work, I feel guilty even being paid for it. Works out at £16/hour although I've had a lot of free firewood etc out of it also in the past.

I can't actually tell you what I get paid for healthcare work, but I can tell you I've had months in the academic holidays where I earned more than I did as an agronomist.

 

[PI Stsker]

What do you haul with your lorry's?

Got several ally body 8 wheel tippers doing anything out of a quarry and the odd bit of muck away, and couple artics, on vac tanker work with a tiny bit of straw haulage in the summer.

 

[Speedstar]

having breakfast this morning in hotel and next table was farm manager of biggish estate
just had new key main man 18.50 an hour plus ot no perks though

did you not ask him for job ?

 

[Bruce Almighty]

I only rarely do farm work, I feel guilty even being paid for it. Works out at £16/hour although I've had a lot of free firewood etc out of it also in the past.

I can't actually tell you what I get paid for healthcare work, but I can tell you I've had months in the academic holidays where I earned more than I did as an agronomist.

Ollie what is your job title/ description in healthcare ?

I ask because my mother is in rehab recovering from a stroke shortly after Christmas and I see different levels of staff doing different work covering different shifts.

I really appreciate the NHS heroes thing from Covid years now.

 

[ollie989898]

Ollie what is your job title/ description in healthcare ?

I ask because my mother is in rehab recovering from a stroke shortly after Christmas and I see different levels of staff doing different work covering different shifts.

I really appreciate the NHS heroes thing from Covid years now.

I only do part time HCA work at present. Though many of these are highly trained in stuff I don't get involved with.

 

[Bruce Almighty]

I only do part time HCA work at present. Though many of these are highly trained in stuff I don't get involved with.

So you really are at the coal face then

 

[ollie989898]

So you really are at the coal face then

When I graduated from Uni the first time around I really had previous little practical experience of anything in the workplace and this really hindered my work and job finding in the years immediately after finishing.

That isn't going to be the case this time around. In fact, I'd say to date I have learnt more from the workplace and the people in it than I have from being at Uni.

 

[Will 1594]

did you not ask him for job ?

What and take a pay cut

 

[Tanker driver]

Mate of mine is a ‘lead operator’ for a contractor. Dosnt make any real decisions just drives one of the choppers then on to a combine so leads a team of people most of the time but he’s on £17.50 for 40 hours then time and a half after that, PAYE paid weekly.. Reckons he does about 2500 hours a year, that’s about 50 hours a week on average.

Just under 40% tax rate i reckon

 

[Blaithin]

1 - People always complaining nobody wants to work these days.

2 - People with a higher turnover because once they’ve trained an employee up they can easily go off and find a higher paying job with their skills.

3 - Fair, market value.

4 - People who are golden employers or just full of sh!t. Hypothetical if they did hire someone wage.

Keeping in mind that this poll was regarding contract work which typically pays MORE than full or part time employees so whatever they say they’ll pay here, they likely pay less. Except that many seemed to miss the contract part so who knows

 

[TelesnaAg]

After working back in ag for few weeks now as a job, its zero surprise to me people dont want to do the job.

I think they may be a very large discinnect in what ag offers and the corporate world etc.

Ant...

 

[ollie989898]

After working back in ag for few weeks now as a job, its zero surprise to me people dont want to do the job.

I think they may be a very large discinnect in what ag offers and the corporate world etc.

Ant...

I was told that wages in Australia are rather greater than in the UK, pro rata. Granted the cost of living I guess is a bit more but apparently Baristas in Australia are paid handsome money by UK standards? I guess everything has to revolve around the sort of money paid in the mining job and the other big hitters Australia has.

That said, I do know people who earned very good money on the contracting round in Aus.

 

[TelesnaAg]

If any fatmer whinges about staff shortage, id be very interested to look at there business because i bet 99 times out of a 100 the reasons will be obvious, not to them but to outsiders.

Ant..

 

[TelesnaAg]

I was told that wages in Australia are rather greater than in the UK, pro rata. Granted the cost of living I guess is a bit more but apparently Baristas in Australia are paid handsome money by UK standards? I guess everything has to revolve around the sort of money paid in the mining job and the other big hitters Australia has.

That said, I do know people who earned very good money on the contracting round in Aus.

Yes you can earn good money, but chances of good conditions accompanying that are low, suited to a gun ho 18 year old...if they want to retain staff its only the stupid who stay or move into management etc.

I started in ag, its was all normal to me, step outside it for 20 years and come back as a short term fill for a couple of months and its like i never left, woeful.

The custom harvest crew i worked for 28 years ago is still miles in front of contractors and farms i see in oz today.

Ant...