to find this retail job underpaid?

[lill72]

Hi, I have been offered a job in.a high end retail store - is £9 per hour in London too low? I don't really know.

I work in retail and get £8.83 an hour, outside of London.

Get off - the store is high end but not a massive company. The lady seemed quite keen to want me and was willing to work around - ish my hours. She also asked what my salary expectation was - stupidly I hadn't really thought of a response
But I have not said yes to the job yet.

Rufus they have said I can help with VM - it's a small business so there is scope to have input.

Adaline so what would you expect in London?

You can ask for the London living wage but be prepared for them to withdraw the job offer possibly. £9 is good for retail, especially a small shop

The voluntary living wage is calculated based on what people are actually felt to need to live on, whereas the National Living Wage is working towards reaching a target of between 55% and 60% of average earnings in the next couple of years.

Oliver Bonas are another voluntary living wage employer.

Unfortunately visual merchandising roles aren’t much better paid usually.

Oh thats good then lill

Thanks KTay - Yes I am.quickly finding this our and thinking I might have to come up with another career or go back to my old one!!!

Annie - yes that could happen though I am prepared to take the risk as I'm not sure at all about it anyway

I would probably expect the living wage for London, tbh. I know my company has stores in London and pays an increased wage for those employees already, though.

OP didn't you research this at all?

Sainsburys are paying £9.20 an hour now and £9.80 in central London I believe

Twaty it all happened very fast. I am panicking as my DH is out of work though hopefully not for long so I applied thinking I'd never hear back and pretty much for a call the next day about two jobs! so no I had a vague idea of pay but yes stupidly didn't research. I am going to ask for more though as I've got nothing to lose really and if my childcare I may have to get a bit of is more than i earn then it makes no sense!!

Haisuil - thank you that is helpful though depressing a high end store pays less than Sainsbury's where far more in terms of selling etc is expected

Yes that is not bad

I was on £8.47 per hour in retail

I get over £8 an hour in retail outside of London. I don't qualify for any benefits at all and it can be a struggle. Eight years ago, I earned £6.05 per hour on minimum wage. It has gone up to only £7.83 since then. An absolute scandal! I like my job, though, and have to cut back on my spending, because at my age, I am not going to get a job that pays bigger money. Retail is always low paid.

Retail is always low paid.

It’s an unskilled job as anybody can do it really with maybe half a day of training. There’s always a steady supply of applicants so they don’t need to pay more.

I looked into working on a beauty counter as I love make up and skin care. I changed my mind when I found out that the “account manager” (the person who runs the counter and line manages the beauty advisors ) gets paid under 20k a year.

I think they get something like 1% commission on sales which may make you a bit more money working in John Lewis on Oxford Street. Not so much working in a quiet House of Fraser store in the deepest darkest south west of the country on a cold wet Wednesday morning!

Ok.so oh wise retail ones..I did a shift at a store last week.and was pestered for my availability last Friday for the next few weeks. Which I gave them on Friday. Since then I've heard nothing - until 5.15pm.tiday asking me to work tomorrow 10-6. I am not available anymore as I.actually trialling another retail job . But to be honest I'd really like more advance notice than 5pm the night before. The girl seems super pushy. Is this lack.of notice normal? I'm not going to give my availability and then just keep it free in case they call??? did this how zero hours work? A few days or week in advance is preferable. What should I reply - help!!!!

Excuse the typos!!!

My DS (19) has a part time job at a well known supermarket and gets £9.20 per hour which is nearly double what he was getting at a well known crappy high street stationery store. However, he has recently been put on a flexible contract so even though he was employed for a set number of hours he is now being asked to do a lot of extra hours. He's worried he will lose his job if he doesn't take the hours.

To be honest I don't really need this job (won't go into it all as not relevant) but just to say my husband thinks it is not worth the stress of being called on such short notice when I have children that require planning etc. The manager is super pushy it is obvious. she was trying to get a store manager who has said she doesn't work weekends to see her child to work last weekend so I can see already red flags.