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I've been with my very small company for coming up 8 years and was promoted 2 years ago into a specialist role that was created for me. The industry is very seasonal and a typical year in my current role looks like this:
3 months 35 hours a week
3 months 37.5 hours a week
6 months alternating between 48 hours one week, 60 the next of unpaid overtime
My role is full on during the busy 6 months with stress and out of hours work. My issue is that my salary, while fair for my level of experience, IMO does not reflect the level of input required in the busy period. For example, if you calculate my salary weekly and divide it by a 60 hour week I'm working for less than NMW. Even worse, because I have a company car which is required for visiting different sites, after tax, in a 60 hour week I am taking home just under £6 per hour for what is a management level position with a lot of responsibility.
I am actively looking for a new job but in the meantime I don't know whether to raise this with my boss or not. On one hand it feels petty when it's not all the time but those weeks when I'm working long hours 7 days a week I just feel so demoralised that I've worked my ass off for so little.
Advice anyone?
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MaybesAyeMaybesNo · 15/02/2021 19:18
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