What’s with the ridiculously low salaries for student jobs?

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  1. They usually pay minimum wage, which can even be below the normal minimum wage if you’re less than 18 years old.

    I guess they don’t have trouble filling these positions no matter how little they pay, so they think why pay more?

  2. Paying so low is theft of ur time, unless you like 16 and its ur first job and u got no experience at all … 8€ isnt supposed to be normal, i hated the ppl that paid me 8-9€ for shitty job

  3. That seems to be the wage based on the lowest possible age. Minimum wage for below 18 year olds is a joke like that. It will go up the older you are, though.

  4. I remember my first summer job, got €1000 flat for the month which seemed like a lot to 15 year old me but now I realise I worked for about €6/h, which is kinda ridiculous. The salaries are low because young people are easy to underpay.

  5. If they need to send you a text and you don’t even have to look at their website, then what do you expect? They just need people quickly and they now people who are not bothered to actively look out ob their website or in other companies are easy people to recruit and will mostly accept any salary

    You will find much much higher on their website, but they can do this because they know some are not bothered to even take a look

  6. It’s a shameful salary, especially if you don’t know what kind of goods discharging from the container. I know we used to have goods coming in that wasn’t palletized, filled to the brim with boxes. And we always had 1 or 2 interims coming. I’m certain they got a better pay than what Kovert is offering, but it was a hell of a task. And with these temperatures it’s even worse.

  7. As a 15 year old, I had 160Bfr/hour , thats roughly 4€, and that was all I needed, but nowadays, kid’s want to work one month, and buy all the latest fancy stuff with that salary

  8. That’s fucked up. I made 12-15 euros an hour working in a steel factory when I was 16. That was half a life ago.

  9. My first studentjob was about 6.5/h + 0.5/h shift bonus, I was 15. I think it increased by 0.75/h for every year older you where.

  10. So technically speaking. If you did this 8h/day for 20 days during the holiday, you’d earn €1423 for the month?

    I did this type of job during my summer holidays once (at a toy company, combined with making packages for warehouses). And while yes, it was also one of my lowest paid summer jobs, I still earned more than this… and plot twist: That was almost 20 years ago. You’d think summer students would earn a bit more 20 years later.

  11. It really depends on the sector too. I remember making a lot more money during my student job in a warehouse in the petro-chemical sector, than the student job I did 4 or 5 years later in an R&D department as an extension of my internship when studying ICT.

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