Do you think Pay should reflect the job you DO ...???

Question

think about it .........policemean starts at £20k

Soldier £20k (ish i think)

Fire fighhter same ish...??


FOOTBALLER up to £25 Milll !!!!!! holy cr@p i can't kick a ball staight just like beck's .... shall i change jobs????

Answer 1

No. Mirrored money would break too easily.

Answer 2

A sad fact about a consumer society is that prices reflect what the market will stand. If you want to employ a policemen, there are plenty of potential candidates and 20K will ensure you get a reasonable number of new recruits. People go in for nursing because they feel they have a vocation so you can treat them like rubbish and pay them peanuts. Go on strike for more pay and you find your industry disappears because it's cheaper to buy coal from Poland or electrical goods from China.

Getting the right footballer, on the other hand can make you loads of money, so the top guys are in huge demand. To make matters worse, it's not necessarily being good at football that gets the punters through the turnstiles, so you get players like Beckham, well past their sell-by date, still earning telephone number salaries.

In the 1960s, I did a recording session and made a few guitar tracks that finished up on various peoples records. That afternoon's work made me more (after allowing for inflation) than I've earned in a year doing anything else - and the royalties are still dribbling in.

It's a lousy system, but every time someone has tried to change it, we've finished up with something worse.

Answer 3

It all comes back to economics and the laws of supply and demand. The demand for footballers is great and the supply is low, therefore they are paid a lot more. Look at how many people go out and watch them, buy jerseys, buy tickets, buy other merchandise.

The demand for firefighters and soldiers, while it may be an in-demand field to be in, there are also a lot of them and thus supply brings the demand down and thus the necessary salary down.

I do not agree that footballers should be paid so much. This is why I do not support sports teams. They are overpaid brats who think that they are better than everyone else.

The real heroes are those policemen, firemen and soldiers...

Answer 4

Ah, but could you put up with the loss of annonimity. These are the things that we take for granted. A walk in the park, going down to the pub for a drink with friends when we like, being able to go shopping without being hassled. Footballers, actors and other celebrities forgo all of this, so perhaps their wages are the wages of fame.

As far as football is concerned, I think the whole system will implode, even before we get to host the World Cup in 2018, as the public cannot afford to go to see a game at current prices. So it's borrowed time for Rooney, Terry, Becks and all.

Answer 5

Should? Maybe, or maybe not. Job pay has more to do with the income the job itself generates for the employer than with the necessity of the job itself. Teachers and firefighters are more important, but how many people pay $50 (or pounds stirling) per event to go to public school or watch firefighters put out a fire? Would you pay for pay-per-view television to watch a 6th grade teacher teach her class? Or care if she was advertising shoes or cereal? Greater income potential for the employer = greater pay for the employee.

Answer 6

The goverment needs to take care of it's employees who put there lives on the line!I totally agree they are way under paid.
But,you and I have a voice in this matter.Writing letters to our local goverment,voting for change!
And we fans,also have a hand in how much the football players and other sportsmen get paid.We attend the games/events .Watch them on t.v.,and or pay to view.And fans purchase every thing from movies down to underwear if their favorite athelte is using them! We, buy their hats ,cups,etc.during the events also!
Take care!

Answer 7

I have always felt that the people with the most dangerous jobs or jobs that actually make a positive difference in society should get paid more. in a perfect world though!



Dru

Answer 8

I have a simple opinion on this… it’s not really answering your question but it is in a way… Sports (ball games) use to be for fun and enjoyment but now… It’s all about money… Kind of takes the fun out of it.

And I believe politicians are paid way to much. =) sorry just my simple opinion.

Answer 9

Yup, I think the sh*tier the job, the more $ to be made after all, it's the low ones on the totem pole that make "most" other jobs possible *^_^*

Answer 10

You said it. Alex Rodriguez (NY Yankees) was making $25+ million PER YEAR. And he wasn't happy there?

Pal, you and me, we're chumps because we can't kick, catch, throw, run well enough.

(Yeah, yeah, market forces.... And what about value? What's the value of a good teacher in a society?)

Answer 11

I think that your Pay should reflect the standard of living in this country and unfortunately alot don't, and the government wonders why there is so much debt !! :)