The medical field pays _terribly_ considering the amount of training, the long hours and the poor working conditions.
No wonder we’re haemorrhaging HCPs to Australia and the US.
Yup and not just nurses, quite a few vital and essential public sector workers are paid a pitiful wage, the nurses always get the headlines though.
Most junior doctors could earn more per hour at ALDI.
When a Nurse can go to the US and start on nearly £80k + bonuses and benefits, it’s madness that so many remain in the UK earning £30k with no bonus, no benefits and no prospect of ever getting a significant pay rise.
I mean, isn’t the rhetoric that they can change to Aldi if they want? Th only way you enact changes is with your wet or a union. From experience though, Aldi workers work very hard for the money they get.
You folks either want a private health service where Nurses wages would triple overnight or a public health service where they get an adequate but not mind -blowing wage. You can’t have both.
So many professions pay shit but this is some of the worse out there
I recently saw the pay slips of an NHS nurse who was working at the local hospital in a very good town from the wealthiest county in England. She was working 37.5 hours a week and was getting £1600 per month in hand after tax. That’s not ok!!!
Same for a lot of professional jobs these days. I know a teacher who is leaving her job this summer to take up an admin job at a private company. Her current salary after 5 years teaching? £22K. I also know a nurse with over 20 years experience – £32K. Her husband earns £28K at a warehouse. After tax she earns about 50 pounds a week more than he does.
Ditto teachers. The government hooked a load of new people into doing PGCEs by promising to lift the starting salary to £30k then rolled back on it to £24k.
A family member is part way through the course now, has taken on yet more debt but is now genuinely considering whether it’s worth the hassle when there are call centre jobs which don’t pay much less (currently the holidays- for childcare purposes – and pension are still just about selling it).
It’s a ridiculous situation for essential workers which needs rectifying immediately.
Whilst I agree the salary is low, why do people apply for jobs when they know they will be underpaid. It’s hardly a bait and switch.
I wanted to quit my corporate job and work as an ECA on ambulances. Starting pay was 18k. Less than my bills. Insane.
This is a pretty common. Theme throughout the public sector though, it’s not just nurses being underpaid.
Saw a job advert for a lead software engineer at HMRC yesterday, 42k max salary. How I laughed.
I’m a band 5 in the NHS, and one of the first lot who had to pay for their training. I can’t afford to live alone, as a qualified professional.
People tell me that with my degree I should get out, but the UK is all I’ve ever known and my parents are getting older.
Same for teaching assistants. We really need to invest in our state sector to keep quality staff.
So…work at Aldi then?
Honestly, it’s a disgrace that people disrespect and belittle a perfectly honest job.
Is there an example of someone earning more at aldi than nursing then?
Thaw average nurses wage in the uk is £33000. Starting wage is £25000.
These are not bad wages. Most jobs don’t pay this much.
My friend earned more as a zero hours carer than a qualified radiotherapist. Ridiculous.
I’m a doctor in the NHS, my other half earns more than me working retail.
Agency nurses get a lot of money. But as a normal nurse, yeah their pay is shit until they become managers
Let’s be real here.
We all know why social services staff get underpaid.
The truth is, if we start paying more. You either tax the poor or tax the rich.
The rich will always have the MP’s, and PM’s on their side.
Additionally the government has the mentality ‘they are doing the job they love, why should we pay them more’.
It’s a sick and twisted mentality. Which just shows how shallow our system is run.
It’s a real shame, we had a chance to fix this system, but we blew it TWICE.
I have a STEM PhD, work in world-leading neuroscience research, would earn about the same if I worked retail lol.
The problem is with this theory is that I work in a supermarket and trust me the hours aren’t usually there. It will be more an hour but it doesn’t mean it’s as much money.
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The medical field pays _terribly_ considering the amount of training, the long hours and the poor working conditions.
No wonder we’re haemorrhaging HCPs to Australia and the US.
Yup and not just nurses, quite a few vital and essential public sector workers are paid a pitiful wage, the nurses always get the headlines though.
Most junior doctors could earn more per hour at ALDI.
When a Nurse can go to the US and start on nearly £80k + bonuses and benefits, it’s madness that so many remain in the UK earning £30k with no bonus, no benefits and no prospect of ever getting a significant pay rise.
I mean, isn’t the rhetoric that they can change to Aldi if they want? Th only way you enact changes is with your wet or a union. From experience though, Aldi workers work very hard for the money they get.
You folks either want a private health service where Nurses wages would triple overnight or a public health service where they get an adequate but not mind -blowing wage. You can’t have both.
So many professions pay shit but this is some of the worse out there
I recently saw the pay slips of an NHS nurse who was working at the local hospital in a very good town from the wealthiest county in England. She was working 37.5 hours a week and was getting £1600 per month in hand after tax. That’s not ok!!!
Same for a lot of professional jobs these days. I know a teacher who is leaving her job this summer to take up an admin job at a private company. Her current salary after 5 years teaching? £22K. I also know a nurse with over 20 years experience – £32K. Her husband earns £28K at a warehouse. After tax she earns about 50 pounds a week more than he does.
Ditto teachers. The government hooked a load of new people into doing PGCEs by promising to lift the starting salary to £30k then rolled back on it to £24k.
A family member is part way through the course now, has taken on yet more debt but is now genuinely considering whether it’s worth the hassle when there are call centre jobs which don’t pay much less (currently the holidays- for childcare purposes – and pension are still just about selling it).
It’s a ridiculous situation for essential workers which needs rectifying immediately.
Whilst I agree the salary is low, why do people apply for jobs when they know they will be underpaid. It’s hardly a bait and switch.
I wanted to quit my corporate job and work as an ECA on ambulances. Starting pay was 18k. Less than my bills. Insane.
This is a pretty common. Theme throughout the public sector though, it’s not just nurses being underpaid.
Saw a job advert for a lead software engineer at HMRC yesterday, 42k max salary. How I laughed.
I’m a band 5 in the NHS, and one of the first lot who had to pay for their training. I can’t afford to live alone, as a qualified professional.
People tell me that with my degree I should get out, but the UK is all I’ve ever known and my parents are getting older.
Same for teaching assistants. We really need to invest in our state sector to keep quality staff.
So…work at Aldi then?
Honestly, it’s a disgrace that people disrespect and belittle a perfectly honest job.
Is there an example of someone earning more at aldi than nursing then?
Thaw average nurses wage in the uk is £33000. Starting wage is £25000.
These are not bad wages. Most jobs don’t pay this much.
My friend earned more as a zero hours carer than a qualified radiotherapist. Ridiculous.
I’m a doctor in the NHS, my other half earns more than me working retail.
Agency nurses get a lot of money. But as a normal nurse, yeah their pay is shit until they become managers
Let’s be real here.
We all know why social services staff get underpaid.
The truth is, if we start paying more. You either tax the poor or tax the rich.
The rich will always have the MP’s, and PM’s on their side.
Additionally the government has the mentality ‘they are doing the job they love, why should we pay them more’.
It’s a sick and twisted mentality. Which just shows how shallow our system is run.
It’s a real shame, we had a chance to fix this system, but we blew it TWICE.
I have a STEM PhD, work in world-leading neuroscience research, would earn about the same if I worked retail lol.
The problem is with this theory is that I work in a supermarket and trust me the hours aren’t usually there. It will be more an hour but it doesn’t mean it’s as much money.