What's your DH/DP salary?

[emptythelitterbox]

To go with the other thread.
What's your DH/DP occupation and salary?
I'll go first.
Plumbing assistant £48000

Less than some, more than others.

hth

How awful to try and demean somebody's job. Do houses not need to be built? Is there not a housing shortage? Have you never needed a boiler replacing or plumbing?

Unless you're saving lives nobody's job makes them a martyr.

Are you just picking on this job because it's predominantly carried out by men? Or will you go as far to also say that bin collectors should be on less than a teaching assistant because in your eyes your job is better?

Plumbers have to go through a lot of training and qualifications. Working in construction is very risky, I know men who have lost fingers, two people who have lost their lives. They work extremely long hours and weekends.

So. Get. Off. Your. High. Horse!

Pennies just under 50k a year after pension and tax etc.i know this as I was worried about the child benefit threshold and we were only discussing it yesterday

@determinedtomakethiswork Construction pays extremely well, especially in London. Senior managers are on circa 6 figures, most have company cars and big bonuses/shares.

And the tradesmen are in high demand most of the time and with labour shortage and their specific skill set they and their employers can demand high rates. This is just commercial build, private residential build demand increased ridiculously during Covid where everybody was doing renovations.

You seem to be implying that you don't see that job as deserving of that salary?

Plus overtime of course 😉

DH earns a lot less than I do. His job is stressful, hard and very few people want to do it. He should be on a lot more than £35k

Dh is a Logistics Administrator for a charity 31k

I'm not on any high horse. Dh is a ta and earns peanuts. As a society it's Interesting that we value building houses more than educating the next generation of plumbers.

Im really curious how you read so much vitriol into my post.

Dh trained as a teacher but works as a TA because it gives us a functional family life. He is v experienced and highly qualified.

Couple of grand less than me. We do the same job but I was promoted first.

£20k less than me.

My DH retired earlier this year from his IT job, his salary was 195k.

About double mine, but mine is more than twice as interesting (and still well paid as these things go).

Oh, do fuck off with all the bragging

The PP is making a perfectly valid point

The guy quoted as earning 48k is a plumber’s assistant (ie plumber’s mate), not a qualified plumber.

Clearly plumbers and their assistants do an important job, but when a plumber’s assistant is paid so much more than a teacher’s assistant it says something - not necessarily that we value plumbers, because their rates are set by the market, but that we don’t value teaching assistants.

I think most TAs and LSAs (of which I am one) only get paid pro rata. Apparently this is not the case if you live in Sunderland or Newcastle-upon-Tyne or somewhere, where TAs seem to get a proper salary - nowhere near £48k though! Most TAs in England (don't know about Scotland, Wales and NI) get paid term time only and only part time hours if they work 6 hours and not 7. So my annual salary is £20k+ but I only get £11k as it is pro rated to take holidays and shorter days into account.

So, although I do think we're under paid and under valued, I can see why we don't (generally in England ) get the same salary as someone who works full time. It isn't great but the holidays are worth it for us as we have small DCs.

I put the lids on pies. 12ppp

A lot less than me.

He's senior in comms