Minimum wage for a 9-5 full time job (40 hours a week) is, as of today, £25,396 a year for anyone over 21.
Which is why it's amazing to see journalism jobs requiring a degree, job experience, and driving licence advertised at a "competitive salary" of £22,380. https://tindlenews.co.uk/careers/journalist-south-hams-gazette/
Which is why it's amazing to see journalism jobs requiring a degree, job experience, and driving licence advertised at a "competitive salary" of £22,380. https://tindlenews.co.uk/careers/journalist-south-hams-gazette/
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The tend to be either 0 hours contracts or 40 hours minimum.
(Not defending hideous low salary at all, but i questioned the original calc here)
Is this legal?
This says that median full-time weekly earnings in London is £853, which comes out to £44k annually
10/15 years later, we were pretty fucked
Perhaps if more journos wrote about the actuality of looking for work & how UK Gov uses that to keep wages depressed, you might not be writing about crap salaries.
1.8m official unemployed
1.9m jobseekers 'econ inactive'
est 9m IN WORK looking for work
800k jobs.
Wages are depressed everywhere because employers are using the high level of actual unemployment, and the low number of available jobs, as well as the cycle of low pay meaning more of the employed are looking for alt/additional work.
Not enough jobs = low pay.
If legal minimum breaks (20 minutes), £24,342.
If given hour lunch breaks so 35 hours, £22,222.
I'm sure they'll pay a great overtime rate...
*Runs for cover*
https://www.acas.org.uk/rest-breaks
Except these days they often want you to be a social media, video and probably AI expert on top of everything else. 💀
https://www.devonlive.com/news/property/south-hams-one-uks-most-8380431
https://bsky.app/profile/mattwalshjourno.bsky.social/post/3lfakhpbc2s2f
It’d take a six figure salary to do the same now.
Totally get where you're coming from, though!
Most are right wing knobs working for insane anarcho capitalists
I think it is probably a good thing long term, but it's brutal for high headcount businesses right now.
'Why am I doing so much for so little more than the newbs (who I'm spending unpaid overtime every week supporting)? Oh look, an accountancy ad...'
But then, so are salaries for everyone else, comparatively (I was earning £9.50 an hour thirty years ago, the same job today would be paying c £17 (£6 in 1995 money).
Shit jobs where the boss class is in ya full time are just shite tho
So while the minimum wage is an interesting comparison, the issue might be trying to pay experienced hires 66% of average earnings.
35 hours is classed as full time, now times that by £12.21
Journalists 🙄
*during which I had 57 weeks off sick for cancer treatment, 26 on SSP, the rest on ESA. Fortunately, that changed before my second round of cancer.
(This is not me saying Today's Graduates Should Suffer Too, I fully agree with Jim's point that the salary in the job ad is ridiculous)
Extrapolating from that, I'd expect current grads to be looking in the ballpark of £21,500...