What is the average wage among blue collor workers in the u.k.?
Very little, if you get £5 an hour your doing well. The job I’M qualified to do (FLT Driver) should rake in at least £8-12 an hour but all interviews offer is £5 an hour which takes the “P” and is really down to the employers forcing low wages in favour of higher profits for the share holders. Employers fail to see that it is the low wage earner that makes the money for the company by being employed to do certain jobs, I have tried to explain this in the past but all it does is an A380 air bus on them, right over their heads. Example, stores & warehousing wont pay more then £5.50 per hour Gross wage, yet if all the warehouse staff walked out over pay, the company would lose more money in profit than it would cost them to give a 20% pay increase because they guys may be seen to be moving boxes around, its the fact that those boxes are being moved at all is what makes the company money in the first place. Employers are generally a bit tight fisted and pay a sales guy £25,000 plus a car a
This is not definative figure, but as the minimum wage is some £5.60 per hour, but double that is not unusual for unskilled workers and guessing at 40 hour week, that would be between about £12k and £23k per annum. I suspect that more folks are nearer the top end of that scale, so I will take a stab at an average of around £19k. Less all the taxes of course. Not a fortune these days, but managed correctly, we should have no really “poor” folks on a smaller wage in the UK I know that there are diffences such as part-time or contract folks, and wouldn’t it be great if the UK economy was able to pay all hard-working folks three times that.
