Minimum wage

[LouBarlow]

I’m a newbie, currently 3 months in and I’ll be honest I am really enjoying the job, the banter in the mornings and the friendliness of the public while out, but the wage is absolutely shocking and because of this I don’t think I will be able to stick it out

Where are all these other jobs that pay a brilliant wage.

I don't think it's so much of other jobs having such a better wage, it's the fact that for the work we do the wage is bad and for a few pence above the new min wage there are easier unskilled jobs out there,

Exactly. Especially for those on the new contracts who are treated like s**t and earn less money for the privilege.

[GaryLawler]

Yep so proud I ignored all the yes voters and voted no, I can look them poor souls in the eye with no guilt

[mjd24]

minimum wage in 2018 when I joined was roughly £7.50/hour. Our wages were £11 or so. So 50% above minimum wage.

So to get ac to where we were we'd be looking at £18.30/hour.

What chance? Thanks CWU. Not only have you overseen an evisceration of our wage but also of our working conditions. The exact opposite of what a union should be doing.

Is this calculation/numbers correct?

[Oscar_Grouch]

minimum wage in 2018 when I joined was roughly £7.50/hour. Our wages were £11 or so. So 50% above minimum wage.

So to get ac to where we were we'd be looking at £18.30/hour.

What chance? Thanks CWU. Not only have you overseen an evisceration of our wage but also of our working conditions. The exact opposite of what a union should be doing.

Is this calculation/numbers correct?

I've done the maths before but can't remember the exact figures. I joined in 2011, in 2012 after the two 50p increases my hourly rate was roughly 50% more than minimum wage (I can't recall if that included the delivery supplement)
Where I live it was enough to get by even though I had a less than full time contract.

Fast forward to April 25 and the difference will be less than 10%
Only slightly above for those of us who get the delivery supplement

[yellowbelly]

April 2018 - March 2019 NLW for 25 and over was £7.83

https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates

Don't know the RM hourly pay rates at that time, shredded my pay chits from that time!

This is a quote from another thread about pay rates etc. from a couple of years later so the figs are probably within the ballpark:

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Here are the pay rates I have from my payslip:

Basic Pay: £12.05
Delivery Supplement (38 hours maximum): £0.70
SSPR (3 hours as I'm on 35 hour contract): £12.75 (this is basic pay plus delivery supplement)
38 - 48 hours: £12.16 (0.9% higher than basic pay)
Over 48 hours: £11.75 (2.5% lower than basic pay)
Sunday (mine is contracted for 7 hours): £17.88
Sunday Overtime (I book this for anything after 7 hours): £14.05
Bank Holiday Pay: £17.36