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UK jobs - average pay

Posted by Dan Frazer Gardening on December 10, 2011 at 12:54pm in Careers

Has anyone else seen this? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/news/article-2067258/Best-paid-jobs-2011-Tables-official-figures-UK-salaries.html

They have employed gardeners down at £17k, less than car park attendants and farm workers. I guess this accounts for general staff for councils, horticultural businesses, landscape/gardening labourers, parks and gardens etc.

Electronics engineers come in at top tradespeople, although the numbers do in general seem very low compared to figures that I know and hear about.

It's interesting but I question the raw data and why the salaries appear to all be lower than I'd expect (well, maybe train drivers at £42k is higher than I thought!).

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  • Graeme @ BGS December 10, 2011 at 1:32pm

    Well it is from the Daily Mail!! :-)

    Sadly I think the figures are about right and does show how much some jobs within the public service pay very well which comes out of our taxes.

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    Gary RK December 10, 2011 at 1:41pm

    The source of the figures is stated as HMRC & PAYE systems - I wonder how these salaries been normalised or standardised?

    Anyone that runs a business (ie such as us on LJN)  - from a sole prop. to a ltd company works far in excess of a standard working week with a large percentage unpaid. That is what frustrates me about 'employed' people - they work their allotted hours and go home and them complain about what bosses earn....

    Without "well paid" Bosses and Entrepreneurs, who have the ability to generate employment, opportunities and wealth for the county we would all be much poorer....

    Saturday morning, grumpy old man rant over.,....;-)

  • Colin Hunt December 10, 2011 at 1:59pm

    Taxi drivers at £13.5K - little devils!!

  • David Cox December 14, 2011 at 4:13pm

    But we all know that one - cash in Hand all the way!

    As for gardeners, could alot of the stats be skewed by people paying themselves in Dividends as and when their company is doing well, with alot of 2-3 man Ltd companies, that could mean 1/3 of the workforce taking their pay quite legally, outside of the scope of PAYE.



    Colin Hunt said:

    Taxi drivers at £13.5K - little devils!!

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