Has anyone else noticed the shockingly bad paid positions at the moment?

[Bubblyliquid]

Just that really.

This time last year (minus two weeks) off the cuff I applied to a similar role at a local charity. They were offering 30K and the interview was ‘postponed’ and never rescheduled.

I’m now looking at the similar roles, more responsibility and they’re between 19-23K.

I got paid more coming straight out of uni.

Is it just me, or is anyone else finding it the same?

My first job in a charity was as an admin assistant for a large organisation in Gt London, and earned 18.5k - this was 2002. When I had a role managing a one-woman project I earned about 26k, in 2006.

Almost twenty years on from that first job and wages have barely changed in that sector (although my former employer from 2002 is advertising at 23k for a similar role). To see that they are now going down is utterly appalling.

@colouringindoors

This makes sense of my recent evperience too. Applied for a job in a charity that had a massive remit and responsibility, £30k salary. I know that sounds a lot compared to others mentioned above, but it was a piss take.

Same here. Been browsing jobs in the charity sector in quite a specialist area. Management roles where they are asking for professional qualifications and management experience and with a lot of legal, budgetary and people management responsibility. offered at £25-30k (and in London). These jobs would have been £40-50k a few years ago.

We will be paying to go to work soon I imagine.

This has been going on since the last recessions. In the industry I worked in we’d typically do 6-8 months stints working full time unpaid in the hope of being offered a job. We’d all then be working shifts in the evening to pay the bills. I imagine 6-8 of us working for £10 expenses a day would have save the company a huge amount.

It’s absolutely criminal how large companies are allowed to pay such low wages knowing full well the tax payer will pick up the tab.

Just to echo what others have said, it may not be so bad if the cost of living, rent etc, actually all reflected today's wages, but it doesn't, the cost of living keeps rising and rising... and yet pay doesn't, how are we all supposed to afford not alone to live to survive, but actually live comfortably and be able to enjoy some treats in life.

The government is just picking up the tab, for the employers who don't want to pay reasonable wages.

So many jobs ask for so much out of the employee, but the pay just doesn't reflect that.

Yes totally seeing this, being made redundant and am job hunting, looking at jobs which seem to have loads of responsibilities in the job spec and then it shows a salary that's less than the salary I was on many years ago, so disheartening and stressful isn't it. Good luck to everyone job hunting, it sucks doesn't it!

@Donotfeedthebears

I was thinking this too, the minimum wage has gone up so people in jobs like retail are earning more, the gap between retail jobs and admin jobs has really narrowed. When I left uni, I got an admin job and that paid 17k. This was back in 2005!

Now I am seeing admin jobs around here being advertised on the 17-20k mark. 16 years later.

Wages have been stagnant for so long - I got 17k out of college admin role in the late 90s

Everyone is totally broke plus it’s a buyers market - some employers will be genuinely broke, others taking advantage

@lightand

Good point. And ever more people reliant on a government...

Which is of course THEIR FAULT the lazy benefit scroungers, they need to be whipped to work even harder. What do they think this is, an egalitarian democracy or something? The less than one percent who own half of England need all these lazy bums to start contributing to make "the economy" perform even better, doncha know. (sarcasm, in case anyone's detector isn't working this evening)