Are all cards-in jobs now basically slave labour?

[Electrics]

For you guys out in the trenches, are electricians being paid less?

I look through job postings regularly and it seems now even in bigger cities like Manchester and London that electricians are being paid rubbish salaries. They seem to actually be going down. £15-18 an hour for people with every qualification going? £35k a year pre-tax? Some as little as £28k a year.

These wages are rubbish but i've yet to see a single cards-in job on the likes of Indeed that are £40-50k a year +. I mean yeah if they're paying for all your gear, testing equipment, PPE, workwear, van etc then fair enough, but they're not.

Where have all the higher paying jobs gone? Or are they now solely the reserve of the self-employed?

 

[Dustydazzler]

my lad chucked his job of 6 years the other week. (skilled electrical work on 34 tonners, cabs and trailers, wiring cameras, tail lifts, electronics etc.). pay was just under £10/hour. he's now on his own, private domestic jobs and some subbing, earns in 2 days what his job paid him a week. ( he's still not getting my 1721. MFT while I is still breathing though. he''l have to manage with the 1553) . ?

HE will have your veto pac and epic screwdriver collection if you arent careful ?

 

[Electrics]

A mate of mine is the main electrician cards for a leisure company that has a bunch of gyms, pools, sports halls etc
He is cards in on £18,000 (he even uses his own car to get from job to job and just claims mileage)

Been with them since he was 17 he is my age 43

He is a good sparks who I have used to help me do some rewires years ago

I keep telling him he is a mug and could earn 3 times that out on his own in the domestic market

but he has some weird bling loyalty to the company which i will never understand

That is absolutely scandalous. You literally get more on the dole if you've got a wife and kids and work minimum wage.

He's being treated like that because he's happy being treated like that. Fair play to him if he's happy with his lot but for me, it just drags down the rest of the industry as soon as anyone agrees to work for that little money.

 

[Electrics]

Like do a calculation at entitledto. If you work 40 hours a week on an apprentice's wage of £4.30 an hour and have a wife and 2 kids, the govt top you up to £26k a year AFTER TAX.

 

[LukeD]

That is absolutely scandalous. You literally get more on the dole if you've got a wife and kids and work minimum wage.

He's being treated like that because he's happy being treated like that. Fair play to him if he's happy with his lot but for me, it just drags down the rest of the industry as soon as anyone agrees to work for that little money.

This !!! Most domestic cleaners in london are on £15 cash a hour and can do 8-10 hours a day every day. I know one that has been for 4 years and is having a 6 bedroom / 5 bathroom very nice house built in a good part of Romania . If someone has trained or studied and wants to take home peanuts , then thats their issue

 

[Electrics]

This !!! Most domestic cleaners in london are on £15 cash a hour and can do 8-10 hours a day every day. I know one that has been for 4 years and is having a 6 bedroom / 5 bathroom very nice house built in a good part of Romania . If someone has trained or studied and wants to take home peanuts , then thats their issue

It boils me though because if everyone refused the crap wages they'd have to put them up.

 

[rapparee]

A mate of mine is the main electrician cards for a leisure company that has a bunch of gyms, pools, sports halls etc
He is cards in on £18,000 (he even uses his own car to get from job to job and just claims mileage)

Been with them since he was 17 he is my age 43

He is a good sparks who I have used to help me do some rewires years ago

I keep telling him he is a mug and could earn 3 times that out on his own in the domestic market

but he has some weird bling loyalty to the company which i will never understand

I assume he spends half the week twiddling his thumbs and the other half sitting about drinking tea