This is what your worth an hour

markis · Post by **markis** » 15 Oct 2008, 16:39

I,ve been on RM web site and looked at the Xmas recruitment and they're paying £5.95 per hour , this is what RM think you should be paid just above the minimum wage.

Post by **lew1275** » 14 Dec 2008, 14:09

Yeah, that's what im earning currently!

Paid by the hour, doing typically 8 hours a day over this xmas! Doing 6 days a week.

Jennifer · Post by **Jennifer** » 17 Dec 2008, 20:37

Post by **baldrick** » 17 Dec 2008, 21:09

I believe it's £7.50 ph for Xmas casuals in London.

Spedley · Post by **Spedley** » 17 Dec 2008, 21:31

baldrick wrote:I believe it's £7.50 ph for Xmas casuals in London.

I still don't understand why you get payed more in London?

Post by **baldrick** » 17 Dec 2008, 21:39

London Weighting - higher cost of living, especially housing costs.
Even with London Weighting we are relatively worse off than postal workers in other parts of the country.

Spedley · Post by **Spedley** » 18 Dec 2008, 20:19

baldrick wrote:London Weighting - higher cost of living, especially housing costs.
Even with London Weighting we are relatively worse off than postal workers in other parts of the country.

Surely if you didn't pay people more they wouldn't be able to spend more and there wouldn't be a higher cost of living?

Post by **baldrick** » 18 Dec 2008, 21:25

Perhaps we should all take a pay cut then?
Oh I forgot - :lfo and :cfo are already doing that to us.

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 19 Dec 2008, 14:55

Spedley wrote:
baldrick wrote:London Weighting - higher cost of living, especially housing costs.
Even with London Weighting we are relatively worse off than postal workers in other parts of the country.
Surely if you didn't pay people more they wouldn't be able to spend more and there wouldn't be a higher cost of living?

Having lived in quite a few different parts of this country (West Yorkshire, London, Herefordshire, South Wales, Rutland, Basingstoke, North Yorkshire and Ulster/Northern Ireland) I can see why there is a London waiting allowance. In fact its something that most national companies, and government agencies and departments give as an allowance to their employees.

In London there are loads of benefits to living and working there, but the one inescapable things is its a lot more expensive place to live.

k979aaa · Post by **k979aaa** » 22 Dec 2008, 19:23

Spedley wrote:
baldrick wrote:London Weighting - higher cost of living, especially housing costs.
Even with London Weighting we are relatively worse off than postal workers in other parts of the country.
Surely if you didn't pay people more they wouldn't be able to spend more and there wouldn't be a higher cost of living?

You would not get any staff to do the job or any job but try liveing down there i'd rather have my teeth extracted without painkiller's!.

Post by **pcb** » 22 Dec 2008, 20:40

I think you are missing the point. Read some Marx and learn a few things.

Spedley · Post by **Spedley** » 23 Dec 2008, 22:33

pcb wrote:I think you are missing the point. Read some Marx and learn a few things.

What point am I missing? I am aware that the proportion of higher earners in London is much higher and therefore the spending power of a significant proportion of the population is greater and so items can be more expensive, however that does not mean that a postman should be paid more in London than anywhere else in the country.

Do postmen in London also get a greater pension so they can retire to another part of the country and be better off?

Don't get me wrong, I can see why there could be a London weighting but I don't agree that there has to be a London weighting.

BELIAL · Post by **BELIAL** » 24 Dec 2008, 00:37

Cost of living

should equally apply to the rest of the SE

DGP1 · Post by **DGP1** » 24 Dec 2008, 01:00

BELIAL wrote: Cost of living should equally apply to the rest of the SE

TBH every area has suffered from increased cost of living, in Belfast you couldn't buy a one bedroom flat for less than £200,000 and at £3/hour for parking nobody could drive in and it's £5/6 per day on public transport (not to mention the leaving the house at 7.00 just to get in by 9.00 and after finishing at 5.00 getting home for 7.00).

Must go and breathe, in for the count of 7 and out for 12 and repeat

BELIAL · Post by **BELIAL** » 24 Dec 2008, 01:11

disgruntledpostie1 wrote:
BELIAL wrote: Cost of living should equally apply to the rest of the SE
TBH every area has suffered from increased cost of living, in Belfast you couldn't buy a one bedroom flat for less than £200,000 and at £3/hour for parking nobody could drive in and it's £5/6 per day on public transport (not to mention the leaving the house at 7.00 just to get in by 9.00 and after finishing at 5.00 getting home for 7.00).

Must go and breathe, in for the count of 7 and out for 12 and repeat

Thats London prices

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