To think salary is very low for this job ad

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FTC job ad I just came across has a salary of £25,063 based in Kings Cross

I get that it’s a junior role but is it just me who thinks 25k is very low for this London based role? It’s really getting me down as I have a degree and a few years experience including placement year but most jobs I see pay very little and are still extremely competitive to land. I’m fighting for jobs that will barely cover my essential bills, and will require me to get a second job.

“We’re seeking a coordinator to support the successful delivery of multidisciplinary projects at the (x), working closely with project, delivery, finance, and discipline leads in a fast-paced, agile, and collaborative environment. Ideal for an early-career professional or graduate eager to develop new skills, this role focuses on overseeing project-level requirements, aligning processes, managing delivery tools, and coordinating resourcing and financial aspects of successful project delivery.

Key responsibilities

Manage and coordinate project delivery with cross-functional teams across various disciplines.
Ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and meet established goals.
Working with the project team to ensure focus on the quality of outputs and how the work we do best reflects the values of the (x).
Actively engage in continuous improvement initiatives, including retrospectives and delivery team meetings.
Coordinate meetings and manage project resources.
Develop and maintain collaborative and positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders through effective communication and engagement.
Provide clear monitoring and reporting to clients when required, covering project-level deliverables and key performance indicators.
Monitor effectiveness across project work-streams and provide administrative support as needed.
Perform financial tracking, budgeting, and reforecasting activities.
Encourage agile ways of working and efficiencies across the (x).
Other ad hoc duties as required.
Provide backup support for Business Support when they are on leave, such as handling receptionist duties.”

Seems to be quite a long list of responsibilities too…
(I’m a struggling job seeker so appreciate I’m no expert)

My work has posted some jobs too recently starting at 25k, central London. I think its awful, under the recommended London living wage.

It's a glorified admin job. I'd expect a salary of at least £30k for London.

Yes that looks low. Could you go for graduate schemes? They’re often better paid. The one for my company starts at £34k in London with decent pay rises each year. It’s closed for September start now though but start looking end of summer for next years grad schemes if you want to try that route.

Yanbu.
This was a problem 20 years ago and its more of a problem now. I'd actually describe it as critical mass.

It 2008 I earned 24k doing this.
National minimum wage was
40 hours/week: ~£11,920

And I was fucked off as my useless boss was earning the same when he graduated and started work in 1998. I had a Russell group 2.1 and intrrviewing was highly competitive, when he entered the industry it was for also rans and he walked in (his words). He had a 2.2 from reading in something useless.
And I was fucked off at my 10k grad debt that paid off at a snails pace.

National minimum wage is now
£25,397 annually for a 40-hour week

I said to my husband the other day I used to be disgusted at people didnt have a good work ethic.
but I look at grad ls with 65kndebt working minimum wage and think while we were a bit screwed and our siblings were more screwed... the system is now just broken for your generation.

I honestly think if I was 22 i'd work hard... to find a nice guy have my kids with early and get on benefits.... " live apart" hit up all those baby and kids charitelies and claim the equivalent of a 70k gross salary while on benefits and actually s0ent time with my kids and live to see GC.
As it is i work a 50 hr week with a 3 and 1 I had at 38 and 40...

People in their 50s were earning this as a grad salary 30 YEARS ago.
Yanbu.

Thanks, I think I’d be ruled out from many as I’m much older, and it’s now been 4 years since I graduated.

I was under the impression that graduate schemes are the most competitive and desirable due to the training and prestige. (That’s what my university careers advisor had said)
Technically all graduate / junior jobs are competitive but grad schemes much more so.

Not just in terms of numbers but the stakes are high, there’s plenty of extremely smart and fresh faced graduates. I remember going to a few assessment centres in final year of uni, and was so intimidated by how much smarter and more impressive the other candidates seemed.

If I’m struggling to land junior jobs even with some experience, I think I need to bee a bit more realistic

Yes, it's ridiculous. I started on 24k in London doing a probably fairly similar job (reading between the lines it's basically admin made to sound more important) and that was 20 years ago. I've no idea how young people manage now.

Where are the decent paying jobs nowadays? Where you could actually afford to move out and set up a home.

Yep this is why the UK economy is fucked, and people feel badly off. Wages haven’t risen in 30 years. I earned a similar wage in my student jobs in 1997 (£12.50ph, for factory work and nhs medical secretary jobs).

Yes it's crazy. My entry role in London in 2011 was £25k, rose to £30k after a year. But I would say rent and costs are 3x what they were at this time, and wages the same. Shocking

I think they've run the role through AI and it reads better than it actually is. It's essentially a team admin.

I earned that almost 30 years ago, terrible low waged economy in the UK

Im looking for a change of jobs at the moment and the london wages are ridiculously low. So many want specific ecperoence but arent going to pay for it. Not sure why its so bad

Yep, as enough posters have said now, thirty years ago we were earning more than that. I didn’t even have any qualifications either, and certainly not Uni debt that youngsters have now.

Yanbu to expect to earn more. I really don’t know how you’re meant to pay your bills, let alone enjoy your life.

I started on £30k in London as a new graduate over 20 years ago. That's ridiculously low.

My entry level job paid £25k in 2015 in London.

I did not realise that had been the entry level salary for so long! It felt pretty good at the time, but now I don’t think it would go far.

My first London job was 25k 20 years ago - it’s outrageous… and I don’t have a degree!

Agreed.

I felt like I was "doing well" when I was single making between 50k and 90k in 2014 to about 2020.
I saved but had good holidays, i ate out, went out, bought nice things....

Im sure ill get a lot of shit bit....
I make 130k and now and with a 1 and 3 yr old and 5k childcare bill I live a very very average life. Childcare is most of my net pay, mortgage is another 2k.
Thats 7k before food and bills
I Rarely eat out. Clothes are bought in sale or vinted if at all.
7 yr old run around car...

And there is nothing wrong with an average life. But I am not on an average salary....allegedly.

I appreciate the kids are "the cause" but no wonder the birth rate is down

Its like pushing water up hill.
I feel so sorry for 20 somethings today I really do.

You won’t be ruled out of a graduate scheme for being older and out of university 4 years, give it a go.

you do typically have to work hard on them but presume that standard elsewhere too.

That's a low salary even for here in Devon. For London it is absolutely pittance.

We pay our interns £34k pa equivalent at work so agree that it’s unexpectedly low for a FT role in London.

Who is the employer? Is it a Government or public sector role, charity, small or large business or corporation? Just curious.

I started out on a graduate trainee salary in London on 14k. That was in 1991. By 1995 I was on 25k, and when I left London in 2003 I was on 45k. We lived in a one bedroomed flat with a little garden in Zone 3, and had a pretty good life, lots of clubbing and meals out and holidays. Our rent was 800 quid a month when we left. It blows my mind that salaries don’t seem to have moved in thirty years! I live in Oz now and wages here are so much higher, you can get paid more than that working in Maccas!

Government roles are very low too. But there are so many jobseekers so they get filled

Most wouldn’t rule you out to being 4 years out of university. Ours doesn’t have a limit for example, and lots are the same. They are competitive but that’s where the higher salaries for graduates often are. Otherwise look outside of London for opportunities. Many companies aren’t paying much higher salaries in London anymore to account for the higher costs of living as hybrid means people can commute in from further away, or there’s locations in other areas they can recruit cheaper.

It's tough out there. There are so many top grads without jobs. Huge numbers are funneling into Masters and Phd's, and then what? Retail is packed with them too! It's especially bad if you have a humanities degree, and want to go into something heritage or arts. No funding whatsoever

Have they left a '0' off by mistake?