The _Don
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Do any of the delivery companies pay the living wage, or do they all pay the national minimum salary?
So, £8.80 x 37.5 hours per week = £330pw (£17160pa). That would be hard to live on...in London.
The calculation is based on the Minimum Income Standard for the United Kingdom, the product of research by CRSP, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The research looks in detail at what households need in order to have a minimum acceptable standard of living. Decisions about what to include in this standard are made by groups comprising members of the public. The Living Wage is therefore rooted in social consensus about what people need to make ends meet.
The uprating of the Living Wage figure each year takes account of rises in living costs and any changes in what people define as a ‘minimum’. It also takes some account of what is happening to wages generally, to prevent a situation where Living Wage employers are required to give pay rises that are too far out of line with general pay trends.
But far from impossible. I know people living in London on less than that. They just don't expect everything to be handed to them on a plate. They don't expect to have the same luxuries as everyone else, as much as they'd like them. No, they're not living in Mayfair but they're comfortable and don't complain. And no, they can't afford a car - but living in London they don't need one.So, £8.80 x 37.5 hours per week = £330pw (£17160pa). That would be hard to live on...in London.
So, £8.80 x 37.5 hours per week = £330pw (£17160pa). That would be hard to live on...in London.
And that's gross. It's impossible imo.
But far from impossible. I know people living in London on less than that.
Well, it was your first job and it was seven years ago so it's not actually the same. Consider too, 17k back them is somewhere around 14-15k today. Plus, of course you had prospects unlike many of the workers being stuck on £8.80/hr.
So what I'm trying to say is - £17k (now) is not impossible to live on. No, it's not nice; and you'll struggle to go on holiday or have luxuries, etc - but it's possible.
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I understand entirely what you are saying but I honestly don't believe for a minute long term (presuming you were short term) anybody could really survive on the minimum wage, something would have to give.
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