4th January 2012, 12:54 PM
Quote:There are plenty of people who have to live on the national minimum wage!!
Very few graduate jobs though...
Quote:a pay level that couldn't be 'undercut' in terms of competitive practice or 'overlooked' in terms of arguing that it is was too high in achieving its desired result - staff with minimum training, but training that was particularly profession specific.
What, this is your 'fantasy' for the profession? Its not really very fantastic.
In the real world, salaries are generally determined by levels of responsibility, rather than time served. This is how the BAJR and IfA payscales are determined. If you want to give site assistants a massive pay cut to teach them a lesson about how shit the industry is, than eveyone will get that pay cut. Maybe if you've got a few years experience you might get another five or ten quid a week extra. No one is going to pay an old lag 25 grand just to dig if all the new graduates on site are doing it for 12 grand.