I honestly don’t understand how someone who works antisocial hours and will need to spend more on travel alone can be expected to survive on £1300 a month. It would basically cover the bare essentials and doesn’t give anyone any incentive to go to work.
>According to Rightmove, the average rent for a property outside London is now £1,162 per calendar month.
I can’t believe I earn more for sitting on my ass in the comfort of my home while stuffing my fat face and doing admin, than this man gets for saving lives and having no life himself due to unsociable hours. It’s mind boggling and so infuriating
Conspiracy theory time.
I’m sure all the comments that crop up on every article about the cost of living saying things like “get a better job”, “learn to budget,” “cut back on hobbies/netflix/travel/days out” etc are all bot generated in some vain attempt to try and make people NOT want to improve their lot in life by trying to make wanting a living wage, fair working hours etc = layabout, leftie, lazy skiver.
£1300 a month
Pretty sure I took home like 900 working in a warehouse 10 years ago where speaking English wasn’t even required
1300 a month! Get more working in maccy d’s
Absolute joke
I’m glad we’re having this conversation. And I fully support every public sector workers’ right to strike and negotiate higher pay.
However – we need to be having the same conversation across the board.
Salaries in the UK have been stagnant for over a decade. It’s ridiculous. *Everyone* needs to be paid more.
I could go to the US and make three times what I make here – for a very similar cost and standard of living.
Why Brits just roll over and accept such low salaries is really beyond me. We need to start expecting more.
You mean to tell me that clapping and banging pots was not enough for this man.
So ungrateful
Are you telling me that this selfish man wants a decent living wage so he can sustain himself whilst working in an essential role.
He is highly delusional and should be more patient and wait for the wealth to trickle down to him, and may be just maybe he will see a marginally small increase.
And that is why You and he should vote Tory without question. And none of this Woke nonsense about making enough money to feed yourself and heat your home.
£1300 is less than I’m on, that’s shocking for someone that has to go through the extensive testing required to be on an ambulance crew
Edited: He isn’t a paramedic.
That’s disgusting. Teaching assistants who in my opinion are shockingly underpaid get 1300 a month and am ambulance worker is far more stressful
The reason he is paid so little is because of the redistribution of wealth to the multimillionaire/billionaire class. This would previously have been a middle class job. There is an unprecedented wealth squeeze going on against the middle class, and the nation’s wealth is being redistributed to the super rich. On this trajectory we will end up like a developing nation, where everyone basically has nothing and a few have everything. There will be mass deprivation and an extinct middle class… we’re already well on our way IMHO.
Our money is so poorly managed in the public sectors. This is a scraping by wage
When public sector workers (nurses, teaching assistant, paramedics) eventually go on strike (we’re all being balloted currently) can everyone please remember that this is the wage we’re getting?
Teaching assistants are primarily responsible for supporting children with additional needs, the first aid that goes in schools including delivering medicine. Many teach lessons to cover for the fact schools cannot afford enough teachers but they don’t receive any more pay for that. A significant number have degrees in early childhood education or development, making them hugely qualified and vital in supporting children. They typically work with the children deemed “hardest”, yet £1300 a month is at the higher of the wage scale.
Nurses and paramedics are similar; difficult, stressful jobs with people’s lives in their hands, working anti social hours again with degrees that need paying back, larger pension contributions because we all know when we get to the retirement age, the government will have fucked us so we need to prepare now.
We don’t want to leave our jobs, we love our jobs and they are vital for society. But unless we’re paid properly, and we can afford to live then you will see a drastic decrease in staff in hospitals and schools.
So when we go on strike, to get the wages we deserve to live whilst doing these important jobs please support us. The media will do their best to discredit us, but we’re doing this for the right reasons.
Nothing will change unless we have a government in power willing to tax the wealthy and the large corporations who made trillions during covid and have the support to make it legislation, then enforce it rigorously, then somehow find an egalitarian solution to re-distribute the wealth back into society.
I think that’s a pipe dream in a political reality where the masses are influenced by the right wing media and to keep voting blue to keep the “nasty left” out of power.
The Tories have allowed corporations to take more and more wealth from the lower middle and middle classes – I believe this to be a huge mistake. Voting Conservative was always the preserve of those who “had” some wealth and a decent living, now it looks less appealing for those finding their incomes have shrunk in real terms vs increased costs.
It’s anti slave day today. I didn’t think we had slaves in this country, how wrong am I?
For someone who has worked for the ambulance service for nearly 8 years, i would say that we are probably overpaid for 90% of our work and underpaid for 10%.
To put that into context, last week i went to an unresponsive new born who required resuscitation but also someone who hadn’t opened their bowels for 24 hours.
I feel like before getting upset at the £1,300 figure we really ought to know how many hours he’s working no? Theres a pretty significant difference between working 40 hours a week for £1,300 and working 16 hours part time for £1,300, and i have no idea where on that scale he falls.
Love to know where the magical loss of £300 from his pay packet has gone.
Even with minimum wage and only a half time job instead of full time work, you’d be earning more in Germany at this point.
If we translate the German minimum wage of 12 euros to the current exchange rate of £10.45 and apply 9 to 5 hours, the earnings pre-tax would be £1,881 which – under German law – would only have the portion of the annual earnings taxed after a threshold just over £10000, essentially making you keep most of that money.
But even so, why should an AMBULANCE worker be paid minimum wage? Makes absolutely no sense. The job has long hours and incredibly strenuous, stressful and exhausting tasks, just like most of the medical profession (looking at you, Opthalmologists, you comfortable sleepers).
Full solidarity for the services fighting for fair pay and conditions. ✊.
Firefighters out the doors along with the paramedics.
You pay council tax. You pay NI and income tax. These are your services that are being run into the ground by greed and cuts. You are paying more money for less staff doing more work and being stretched to breaking point. You are getting less service but we are being painted as “greedy” for wanting better conditions and pay.
It’s not a race to the bottom ✊
I’m sorry but someone in a job of that nature should not be paid £1300 a month. They are horribly undervalued with such a low salary.
Britain is broken and the government can’t fix it.
Time for the TUC to call a General Strike and bring it down.
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He’s either lying or part time. That’s less than minimum wage he’s claiming to earn.
I was gonna become an ambulance driver / EMT when I was earning £25k as tech support but I didn’t want to study for three years to take a significant pay drop, so I carried on doing something useless
The only way out of this and to make our public services, our pay and our livelihoods in this society better is to deal with the ever growing wealth inequality in this country. The only way to do this is to tax the rich properly.
When Rishi poses yet more austerity on us the ONLY answer is a collective no. No more voting in any political party who doesn’t agree to taxing the wealthy and using that money to re invest in the workers and public services. It is absolutely time up for the rich and anyone not joining that cause is part of the problem.
How the fuck do I earn more than an ambulance worker!? I just input data on spreadsheets ffs, this is disgusting.
Is this right? £1300 a month is less than national living wage if working full time?
I worked on fast ferries from Ireland to Liverpool ten years ago, as cabin crew and I was on more than that. 1,300. Strike away, that is fucking disgraceful!
Imagine doing that job for so little money, I make more working in a bar 4 nights a week.
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I honestly don’t understand how someone who works antisocial hours and will need to spend more on travel alone can be expected to survive on £1300 a month. It would basically cover the bare essentials and doesn’t give anyone any incentive to go to work.
It’s disgusting they’re paid so little.
I assume he means £1300 after tax. This equates to around £17k a year. The starter salary for this role is [£21.7k](https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/job-profiles/emergency-care-assistant). Something is missing…. Does he work part time?
Anyway 21.7k is still pretty crap and needs increasing.
What a pleb, he’s obviously not pulling his bootstraps hard enough.
And I wish him the best of luck with the below..
>https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/uk-rent-record-high-october-2022
>According to Rightmove, the average rent for a property outside London is now £1,162 per calendar month.
I can’t believe I earn more for sitting on my ass in the comfort of my home while stuffing my fat face and doing admin, than this man gets for saving lives and having no life himself due to unsociable hours. It’s mind boggling and so infuriating
Conspiracy theory time.
I’m sure all the comments that crop up on every article about the cost of living saying things like “get a better job”, “learn to budget,” “cut back on hobbies/netflix/travel/days out” etc are all bot generated in some vain attempt to try and make people NOT want to improve their lot in life by trying to make wanting a living wage, fair working hours etc = layabout, leftie, lazy skiver.
£1300 a month
Pretty sure I took home like 900 working in a warehouse 10 years ago where speaking English wasn’t even required
1300 a month! Get more working in maccy d’s
Absolute joke
I’m glad we’re having this conversation. And I fully support every public sector workers’ right to strike and negotiate higher pay.
However – we need to be having the same conversation across the board.
Salaries in the UK have been stagnant for over a decade. It’s ridiculous. *Everyone* needs to be paid more.
I could go to the US and make three times what I make here – for a very similar cost and standard of living.
Why Brits just roll over and accept such low salaries is really beyond me. We need to start expecting more.
You mean to tell me that clapping and banging pots was not enough for this man.
So ungrateful
Are you telling me that this selfish man wants a decent living wage so he can sustain himself whilst working in an essential role.
He is highly delusional and should be more patient and wait for the wealth to trickle down to him, and may be just maybe he will see a marginally small increase.
And that is why You and he should vote Tory without question. And none of this Woke nonsense about making enough money to feed yourself and heat your home.
£1300 is less than I’m on, that’s shocking for someone that has to go through the extensive testing required to be on an ambulance crew
Edited: He isn’t a paramedic.
That’s disgusting. Teaching assistants who in my opinion are shockingly underpaid get 1300 a month and am ambulance worker is far more stressful
The reason he is paid so little is because of the redistribution of wealth to the multimillionaire/billionaire class. This would previously have been a middle class job. There is an unprecedented wealth squeeze going on against the middle class, and the nation’s wealth is being redistributed to the super rich. On this trajectory we will end up like a developing nation, where everyone basically has nothing and a few have everything. There will be mass deprivation and an extinct middle class… we’re already well on our way IMHO.
Our money is so poorly managed in the public sectors. This is a scraping by wage
When public sector workers (nurses, teaching assistant, paramedics) eventually go on strike (we’re all being balloted currently) can everyone please remember that this is the wage we’re getting?
Teaching assistants are primarily responsible for supporting children with additional needs, the first aid that goes in schools including delivering medicine. Many teach lessons to cover for the fact schools cannot afford enough teachers but they don’t receive any more pay for that. A significant number have degrees in early childhood education or development, making them hugely qualified and vital in supporting children. They typically work with the children deemed “hardest”, yet £1300 a month is at the higher of the wage scale.
Nurses and paramedics are similar; difficult, stressful jobs with people’s lives in their hands, working anti social hours again with degrees that need paying back, larger pension contributions because we all know when we get to the retirement age, the government will have fucked us so we need to prepare now.
We don’t want to leave our jobs, we love our jobs and they are vital for society. But unless we’re paid properly, and we can afford to live then you will see a drastic decrease in staff in hospitals and schools.
So when we go on strike, to get the wages we deserve to live whilst doing these important jobs please support us. The media will do their best to discredit us, but we’re doing this for the right reasons.
Nothing will change unless we have a government in power willing to tax the wealthy and the large corporations who made trillions during covid and have the support to make it legislation, then enforce it rigorously, then somehow find an egalitarian solution to re-distribute the wealth back into society.
I think that’s a pipe dream in a political reality where the masses are influenced by the right wing media and to keep voting blue to keep the “nasty left” out of power.
The Tories have allowed corporations to take more and more wealth from the lower middle and middle classes – I believe this to be a huge mistake. Voting Conservative was always the preserve of those who “had” some wealth and a decent living, now it looks less appealing for those finding their incomes have shrunk in real terms vs increased costs.
It’s anti slave day today. I didn’t think we had slaves in this country, how wrong am I?
For someone who has worked for the ambulance service for nearly 8 years, i would say that we are probably overpaid for 90% of our work and underpaid for 10%.
To put that into context, last week i went to an unresponsive new born who required resuscitation but also someone who hadn’t opened their bowels for 24 hours.
I feel like before getting upset at the £1,300 figure we really ought to know how many hours he’s working no? Theres a pretty significant difference between working 40 hours a week for £1,300 and working 16 hours part time for £1,300, and i have no idea where on that scale he falls.
Love to know where the magical loss of £300 from his pay packet has gone.
Even with minimum wage and only a half time job instead of full time work, you’d be earning more in Germany at this point.
If we translate the German minimum wage of 12 euros to the current exchange rate of £10.45 and apply 9 to 5 hours, the earnings pre-tax would be £1,881 which – under German law – would only have the portion of the annual earnings taxed after a threshold just over £10000, essentially making you keep most of that money.
But even so, why should an AMBULANCE worker be paid minimum wage? Makes absolutely no sense. The job has long hours and incredibly strenuous, stressful and exhausting tasks, just like most of the medical profession (looking at you, Opthalmologists, you comfortable sleepers).
Full solidarity for the services fighting for fair pay and conditions. ✊.
Firefighters out the doors along with the paramedics.
You pay council tax. You pay NI and income tax. These are your services that are being run into the ground by greed and cuts. You are paying more money for less staff doing more work and being stretched to breaking point. You are getting less service but we are being painted as “greedy” for wanting better conditions and pay.
It’s not a race to the bottom ✊
I’m sorry but someone in a job of that nature should not be paid £1300 a month. They are horribly undervalued with such a low salary.
Britain is broken and the government can’t fix it.
Time for the TUC to call a General Strike and bring it down.
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He’s either lying or part time. That’s less than minimum wage he’s claiming to earn.
I was gonna become an ambulance driver / EMT when I was earning £25k as tech support but I didn’t want to study for three years to take a significant pay drop, so I carried on doing something useless
The only way out of this and to make our public services, our pay and our livelihoods in this society better is to deal with the ever growing wealth inequality in this country. The only way to do this is to tax the rich properly.
When Rishi poses yet more austerity on us the ONLY answer is a collective no. No more voting in any political party who doesn’t agree to taxing the wealthy and using that money to re invest in the workers and public services. It is absolutely time up for the rich and anyone not joining that cause is part of the problem.
How the fuck do I earn more than an ambulance worker!? I just input data on spreadsheets ffs, this is disgusting.
Is this right? £1300 a month is less than national living wage if working full time?
I worked on fast ferries from Ireland to Liverpool ten years ago, as cabin crew and I was on more than that. 1,300. Strike away, that is fucking disgraceful!
Imagine doing that job for so little money, I make more working in a bar 4 nights a week.