Graduate Wages

[John Knight]

So now comes the time when we are finally spat from dusty academia into the cut and thrust of the commercial world.

So after 6 yrs of training to date (there still a proffesional yr to go) and debts upto my eyeballs i am going to enter a job earning just ?3k a year more than i made working behind a bar.

So u gotta ask why did i bother.

While i have no objection in principle to paying for my own education it would be nice to have something to pay for it with. Instead it looks like further yrs of finacial hardship to follow.

Free Education or better graduate wages u choose

and on the off chance Tony Blair is reading this...

you are a lying two faced shit!

[Mike]

So after 6 yrs of training to date (there still a proffesional yr to go) and debts upto my eyeballs i am going to enter a job earning just ?3k a year more than i made working behind a bar.

Not only that but you are earning less than a well paid man on the slabs. . . I know what you mean but I do think that our earning potential is much greater than the starting salary. (At least it had better be!)

[idlewood]

well

since u started it ill just depress us even more

when i finished on site i was earning 18K but workin 70 hour weeks, often away from home an in some real shitty weather ( iremmeber once actually finishin pourin a slab off the coast literally of n wales; we worked 14 hours straight with no breaks in a blizzard. i honestly did not stop shaking for hours afterwards)

now i will be earning approx 18k but in 40 hours so i have roughly doubled my earning power....

i am also significantly more in debt then i was when iw as earning my previous 18k so im probablystr8 back where i was when i left skool an cleared 50 quid for 40 hours work

yes that was also when a nite out an chippie was all less then a fiver..............

[Mike]

I have since learned from Hays recruitment consultants website that part 2 graduates in the north west can expect an average salary of ?19k. With a minimum of ?16k and a max of 22k.

This is based on the 2005 survey they conducted.

[Fez]

Don't believe everything you read, Mike.

You'll all be flipping burgers and asking if some tosser wants fries with his heart attack before too long, earning next to nothing and living in a cardboard box with a cheap trick called Tracy, possibly before pawning your bodies to some lecherous old man in a secondhand mercedes while his wife is out of town.

Be warned. It could happen to all of you...that Tracy gets around you know...