hi some advice needed on what is the norm for earnings if tramping all week as i have being offered a job its agency work and its in dewsbury
and there offering £100 plus nightout money of £20 hours im unsure but seems a bit low in my opinion i live in york and looking to earn some decent money .
as ive got kids and a spendhappy missus needing a good paid job if working away all week any idea,s welcome
Not bad. If you can get 10 quid an hour and max out your hours plus your night out money (25quid for me) you’d be doing ok.
You WILL max your hours out EVERY day on this job … UPS Logistics aka Haulfast. If you are ok doing 15 hrs for this ££.
I did this job for 3 yrs on agency about 8 yrs ago … on the same money as NOW 
Have you tried revis??
£555.48 after tax per week, including nights out.
not bad, not the best.
limeyphil:
£555.48 after tax per week, including nights out.
not bad, not the best.
Can’t be that much, it’s £600 max before tax, gotta be about £460 take home surely
selby newcomer:
limeyphil:
£555.48 after tax per week, including nights out.
not bad, not the best.Can’t be that much, it’s £600 max before tax, gotta be about £460 take home surely
My mistake, night out tax free, so about £480 take home
Income Tax depends on your allowance, but for a single man a gross wage of £500 means a net wage of £388.69, four nights out at £20 makes a total weekly take-home pay of £468.69 which I would say was about average.
selby newcomer:
limeyphil:
£555.48 after tax per week, including nights out.
not bad, not the best.Can’t be that much, it’s £600 max before tax, gotta be about £460 take home surely
i based it on a 6 day week.
t29sab:
hi some advice needed on what is the norm for earnings if tramping all week as i have being offered a job its agency work and its in dewsbury
and there offering £100 plus nightout money of £20 hours im unsure but seems a bit low in my opinion i live in york and looking to earn some decent money .
as ive got kids and a spendhappy missus needing a good paid job if working away all week any idea,s welcome
Have you considered swapping the spendhappy mrs for a more economical model? 
Harry Monk:
Income Tax depends on your allowance, but for a single man a gross wage of £500 means a net wage of £388.69, four nights out at £20 makes a total weekly take-home pay of £468.69 which I would say was about average.
Average? Really? And here’s me working for that low paying firm.
axletramp:
Have you considered swapping the spendhappy mrs for a more economical model?
Indeed! Or even cutting back her allowance and suggesting she gets a job for herself 
Harry Monk:
Income Tax depends on your allowance, but for a single man a gross wage of £500 means a net wage of £388.69, four nights out at £20 makes a total weekly take-home pay of £468.69 which I would say was about average.
Don’t want to come across all I wouldn’t get out of bed for that as I would as its still better than thfiddle or the famous shelf stacker earns. But is that seriously an average wage for a tramper which I’m assuming you would be max hours every week?
Well, it’s certainly a lot more than I pay myself. 
But yes, I’d say £100 a day was average or even better than average for a tramping job paid by the day.
Over or around the £600 mark, I’m my hand, including 4 nights out plus bonuses.
Don’t forget, while you are out ‘tramping’ you’re still paying for that house and family you’ll never see.
Not bad for twenty quid tax free…
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There’s a lot of assumptions you’d be maxing your hours out for that.
You can only ‘max out your hours’ at certain times. You’ve got to find somewhere safe to park up, so chances of doing that bang on 15/13 is slim, you can only reduce 3 times per week, you can only WORK an average of 48hrs per week and only drive 90hrs per fortnight.
£100 per day through agency seems a little low, but if it was advertised as £500 per week + night out money, doesn’t sound so bad does it?
I’d see what hours it’s based on too, I’ve been for a job that was £350 per week, but it was only based on 39hrs and after that it was overtime rate, the amount of people who wouldn’t go for that job because it said £350 per week, and they were like ‘maxing your hours out for that’ etc.
Agency I’m currently on is £9 per hour, time and half after 8. But, they deduct 45 mins for lunch, so it’s actually 8.75hrs before you hit the overtime. 8 x 9 = 72, 28 / 13.5 = 2 and a bit. So, to earn £100 I’d actually be doing nearly 11hrs. And £9 / hr isn’t a bad paying agency either, see MUCH worse.
So, 580 quid a week, and you’re not sure if you could manage on that because the missus might spend it, I agree with the other lads, time she went and earned her own.
£100 for 15 hours is rubbish. £500 gross for a 48 hour week is pretty average, £10ph agency is achievable for weekday nights in plenty of places, not just down south. Trafford park springs to mind, along with the golden triangle. Avonmouth area is also “boom town” for the time being as well.
With kids under 16, and some travelling distance to the depot of work there are always other options when working as a temp rather than full-time.
Why do 5x11 hours for £500, less tax & insurance leaving you with about £360 when you can do 2x15, book 28 hours of it as paid (assuming same hourly rate and paid POA), then offset just over £100 in mileage & meal & night out allowances, leaving you with £280 takehome for 2 shifts rather than £360 for 5?
That’s 3 days more with your family per week for a drop in takehome pay of a mere £80. You’ll probably spend that less in commuting alone! Over the course of the whole year, your gross taxable pay will be around the £8000 mark, meaning you’ll not pay tax at all, and probably qualify for some other top-ups, assuming you’ve got kids under 16 as well.
The reduced “gross pay” as a result of offsetting will reduce the whole gross taxable pay for ALL purposes, not just income tax you see.
You’ll need a non-abusive agency who don’t expect you to take on everything they throw at you as well. There’s no shame in being a part-timer, although many others will say otherwise. Quit moaning the rest of you who think busting up your family, and taking home less for more hours out is a more honourable way of living one’s life. Leave the family friendly working patterns to those that actually care about their family & marriage like I do! 
I’ve done overnight work (2 day blocks, single night out) and I’d go as far to say that it’s as good as it gets - providing you max that 28 hours of paid time whilst you do it, then sit the rest of the week out! Firms that don’t pay POA hours are of course a non-starter here, as you’re going to be spending a lot of hours each round turn at the remote pickup point waiting for your backload. 
Harry Monk:
Income Tax depends on your allowance, but for a single man a gross wage of £500 means a net wage of £388.69, four nights out at £20 makes a total weekly take-home pay of £468.69 which I would say was about average.
You have got to be kidding. Is that all you get trampers for being away all week? I get home every night and i earn roughly £470 a week. Roughly i do 60hrs a week. It has got to be some kind of a sick advert 
…That’s tramping!
Great if you’re paid for maxed out hours, but lousy if you’re not, because you’re laid up for upto 16 hours per day unpaid.
Many employers do indeed pay more for weekday nights than what trampers get. The plummy agency tramping of which I spoke seems damned hard to come by these days - probably because employers don’t like the idea of paying a through-rate!