replace 'blue collor' with 30 percent poorest of population
2007-09-08 20:28:08 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Economics
Median weekly pay for full-time employees in the UK in April 2006 was £447 (23200 per year £11.20 per hr) and the bottom 10% less than £244. (13600 per year £6.10 per hr). I would guess that the bottom 30% would earn less than £9 per hour. When comparing with other countries the official exchange rate is deceptive, the cost of living in the UK is also very high.
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=285
2007-09-08 22:16:18 · answer #1 · answered by meg 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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.
2007-09-09 04:00:16 · answer #2 · answered by Bob the Boat 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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 and they may bring in the sales orders BUT its the man on the ground floor that makes things happen and this is what employers FAIL every time to see when it comes to pay. The sales guy gets paid a fat earner and then sticks his hand out, fact is allot of sales excutives are not needed because I know from working in a warehouse spares department that most of the sales came in by word of mout and not by the head in the clouds anus brained sales guy that was full of himself trying to get into the office juniors knickers.
So until the pay situation is addressed and fair pay is on the table, their will always be inequality.
2007-09-09 03:48:31 · answer #3 · answered by cheek_of_it_all 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
way above usa and austrialia you luck dogs. smart people run england. i dont like the term uk. form gramer school i always called it england. its not in you antyhem. just listen to that playing on the computer. i thin the frnech has heads above the world with an anthem. new zealand is really far out. even the aussies have a cool anthem. amereica clearly chose the worse crappy anthym and would change it. germany has a cool anthym. no what, the nazis had terric march songs and the best one was for the SS! gotta get inspired. Mexico is a gas. Italy is so so. still checking the all out. i am sure nothing will come close to france. us will probably end up ith a rap anthym. we get a black flag with black power fist. i would prefer a skull ad crossbones ;like the sss emploed.r
2007-09-09 04:47:26 · answer #4 · answered by JIM 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Minimum wage is about £5.55 - but the government get their hands in your wage packet before you even see it. There is tax, tax, tax disguised as something else and then a tax on that too.
You can even be charged to use the work place car park then they won't let you smoke in your own car because it's on their property!
Workplaces don't want skilled workers - they'd rather call in agency staff that they can dump at a moments notice with no worry about contracts or unions.
2007-09-09 06:14:57 · answer #5 · answered by Debi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Minimum 12K
Maximam unlimited
2007-09-09 06:24:03 · answer #6 · answered by M.A.W. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are two averages.the government one.and the real one
what people actually get in there wages packets.
2007-09-09 04:10:21 · answer #7 · answered by peter o 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I get £6.25 an hour for selling cigarettes
2007-09-09 04:50:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Between £18000 and £25000. Educated guesswork.
2007-09-09 03:46:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
dont no
2007-09-09 03:39:54 · answer #10 · answered by shonkamur 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋