Contracted for 48 hours a week £26,600pa
Anything after that I get nigh on £15ph
Good enough for me and a wage rise every year.
A good wage is one that you are happy with. End of.
If my mortgage was smaller then I could adjust to a smaller wage.
lizard:
after you earn £35000ish a year you pay 40% tax so is it really worth trying to chase the job that pays more than £9 an hour.
Yes because your maths is wrong. You only pay 40% on anything you earn above the threshold, not the whole lot.
below is after paying 45% tax & ins
£10ph £20306
Is completely and utterly wrong. Take home pay for 71hrs a week at £10ph every week for a year is £28060
Only contracted hours are relevant when I hear what someone says they earn a year. Anything else is overtime. If long term sick and maybe lucky to have company sick pay it’ll be at contracted hours which pays your life. When you go on holiday, it’s contracted hours that you receive. When you apply for a mortgage, it’s contracted pay that they ask for. Recent 4/4 thread someone mentioned 32k for 4 on 4 off. Seemed pretty ■■■■ decent for the job.
Boo9729:
Olog Hai:
71 hours IS two weeks’ work for many people. It’s only four hours short of that for me. Therefore £35k on the top line for 71 hour weeks would actually equate to no more than £18.5k on normal hours. Not that good after all is it?71hrs was just the example hrs the op was using in relation to hourly/yearly wage. Climb down off your high horse and take a chill pill.
While your wittering on about 35k and 71hrs a wk ‘work’ I’m pretty sure a huge amount of working class people would swap their 40 hr a wk job on 35k for our 71hrs on 35k based on the fact a huge amount of our time is chilled out, radio on etc etc. Hardly a lot of hard work is it !!
What a knob
If it keep the bailiffs away and my dealer never needs to pay me a visit I’m happy 
Boo9729:
While your wittering on about 35k and 71hrs a wk ‘work’ I’m pretty sure a huge amount of working class people would swap their 40 hr a wk job on 35k for our 71hrs on 35k based on the fact a huge amount of our time is chilled out, radio on etc etc. Hardly a lot of hard work is it !!
That has got to be the most ■■■■■■ stupidest dumb assed comment I have ever read on here, and that is saying something.
Yeh that’s right mate…But only .If they are ■■■■■■ lunatics 
And when did wages have any correlation with hard work anyway exactly, if that was the case a builder’s labourer would be better paid than a politician.
Olog Hai:
71 hours IS two weeks’ work for many people. It’s only four hours short of that for me. Therefore £35k on the top line for 71 hour weeks would actually equate to no more than £18.5k on normal hours. Not that good after all is it?
I wish do almost that most weeks but paid per mile so get many in as I legally can
lizard:
After reading lots of comments on other threads about wage rates I thought I would do a rough estimate of what’s what.
If you were to max your hours weekly doing 3 x 15 & 2 x 13 which works out at 71 hours what would you be taking home after tax and insurance.£7ph £19383
£8ph £22536
£9ph £24921
the above is after paying 25% tax & ins
below is after paying 45% tax & ins
£10ph £20306
£11ph £22337after you earn £35000ish a year you pay 40% tax so is it really worth trying to chase the job that pays more than £9 an hour.
For 71 hpw non of your figures are any good,work to live not live to work.
Some of you really do need to get your head out your arse. You’ve no idea about life beyond your frilly curtains.
lolipop:
lizard:
After reading lots of comments on other threads about wage rates I thought I would do a rough estimate of what’s what.
If you were to max your hours weekly doing 3 x 15 & 2 x 13 which works out at 71 hours what would you be taking home after tax and insurance.£7ph £19383
£8ph £22536
£9ph £24921
the above is after paying 25% tax & ins
below is after paying 45% tax & ins
£10ph £20306
£11ph £22337after you earn £35000ish a year you pay 40% tax so is it really worth trying to chase the job that pays more than £9 an hour.
For 71 hpw non of your figures are any good,work to live not live to work.
Non of his figures are accurate, either.
A good wage is one where a person can do a reasonable amount of hours for a good work/life balance, not have to claim any state benefits and have some disposable income at the end of each week
This is going to be different for each individual depending on their circumstances
Boo let’s get one thing straight - no one on earth has ever said “gosh I do fancy doing double the hours, for half the pay”
But you are right I have met plenty of people who have said they would mind being the open road all day and being a trucker. 5 minutes of listening to me, and their eyes have all glazed over, and they have vomited into their shoe at the thought of driving a HGV as a career.
In all serious though, I love my job.
F-reds:
Boo let’s get one thing straight - no one on earth has ever said “gosh I do fancy doing double the hours, for half the pay”But you are right I have met plenty of people who have said they would mind being the open road all day and being a trucker. 5 minute of listening to me, and there eyes have all glazed over, and they have vomited into their shoe at the thought of driving a HGV as a career.
In all serious though, I love my job.
Take on board what you say. Just gets my goat that so many people on here bleat on about 60/70 hrs work etc etc but we are not paid enough for the work we do !!
Everyone has a level of pay and hrs they are happy with and those that think they are worth more should ‘do one’ and find something in life they are happy with.
Based on the mindset of a lot of people on here how much should a nurse be paid per hr for a 12hr shift, working non stop dealing with death, trauma, distraught members of the public etc ■■ Should be a dam sight more than an lgv driver, but guess what it’s not.
What the dickens have nurses got to do with anything, pop singers earn more than us as do politicians, even the traitors, but then builders labourers earn less but work far harder, so what.
Not all lorry drivers are badly paid, there are good jobs out there, it’s a case of finding them…oh and having a good enough record and work history to land one of them, as well as a bit of luck…then its a case of keeping the job once you’ve got it.
Then doing your share of making sure the company stays profitable by doing your level best, and not taking the ■■■■ or the job for granted, something far too people can’t help themselves doing.
Boo9729:
Take on board what you say. Just gets my goat that so many people on here bleat on about 60/70 hrs work etc etc but we are not paid enough for the work we do !!Everyone has a level of pay and hrs they are happy with and those that think they are worth more should ‘do one’ and find something in life they are happy with.
What about the ones that started the job when it was …actually good and for good pay, why should they ‘do one’ from the job they have done for years for people like you who think that just because the entire 70+ hours are not spent working your ■■■■■■■■ off you should be content to be paid next to ■■■■ all
Sorry mate but you lost all credibility on here when you came out with that b/s about people clambering to work 70 hours to drive a ■■■■■■ truck when they can earn the same for working 40 for the SAME money …I mean ffs!
Juddian:
What the dickens have nurses got to do with anything, pop singers earn more than us as do politicians, even the traitors, but then builders labourers earn less but work far harder, so what.Not all lorry drivers are badly paid, there are good jobs out there, it’s a case of finding them…oh and having a good enough record and work history to land one of them, as well as a bit of luck…then its a case of keeping the job once you’ve got it.
Then doing your share of making sure the company stays profitable by doing your level best, and not taking the ■■■■ or the job for granted, something far too people can’t help themselves doing.
There are good jobs out there for lorry drivers and like yourself ( I presume ) I have one.
The reference to nurses was just an example, don’t read so much into the profession I mentioned.
There’s an awful lot of people on here who think because they have an lgv licence they deserve top dollar and should automatically be well into double figures for their hourly rate. I think these people will always be on the lower £7ph figure purely because they don’t have the work ethic or know how to find and secure the jobs they really want.
robroy:
Boo9729:
Take on board what you say. Just gets my goat that so many people on here bleat on about 60/70 hrs work etc etc but we are not paid enough for the work we do !!Everyone has a level of pay and hrs they are happy with and those that think they are worth more should ‘do one’ and find something in life they are happy with.
What about the ones that started the job when it was …actually good and for good pay, why should they ‘do one’ from the job they have done for years for people like you who think that just because the entire 70+ hours are not spent working your ■■■■■■■■ off you should be content to be paid next to [zb] all
Sorry mate but you lost all credibility on here when you came out with that b/s about people clambering to work 70 hours to drive a [zb] truck when they can earn the same for working 40 for the SAME money
We are having a slight misunderstanding me thinks 
you shouldn’t be content to be paid f*** all for 70 hrs. The 70 hr figure was only used as that’s the example the op originally started with.
A more realistic working wk is probably between 50 and 60 hrs. I’ve not said people are clambering to drive a truck. There are people out there who have changed from a stressful 40 hr wk in one profession to let’s say a 55hr wk driving lorry’s for similar money & now have a better quality of life.
We can agree on some things and disagree on some things, that’s life and opinions.
Boo9729:
Juddian:
There’s an awful lot of people on here who think because they have an lgv licence they deserve top dollar and should automatically be well into double figures for their hourly rate. I think these people will always be on the lower £7ph figure purely because they don’t have the work ethic or know how to find and secure the jobs they really want.
Much truth in that, a test pass for the licence is just the basic requirement, it’s the most basic qualification to be allowed out in a lorry and has nothing whatever to do with skill, competence, pride in the job or work ethic, it’s bare minimum standard on the day in question, nothing more.
A certain amount of luck is required in the search for the best jobs, you can make your luck better, whatever your profession, perfecting your skill and taking a pride in doing the job well and forging a good work record makes you a desirable employee.
Being a miserable incompetent unreliable damage and accident prone claimsRus moaning minnie won’t see you welcomed with open arms into good companies, who never need advertise for staff.