Birmingham City Council approves disastrous budget cuts

[outoftown]

Yes and they still are - between £42 to £45 per hour x 37 hour week is around £80k (after ENI is deducted)

I'm paid £40 per hour at present and my last two contracts were £43 and £42 per hour. I work bloody hard for it, but that isn't the point. The whole system is broken. I'm now working for an authority who pay a realistic salary for the job and in thinking of going permanent and getting the job security and benefits.

Thankyou for your answer and honesty.
I'm a few years out of social care work now, genuinely didn't know it was at those figures..
I'm flabbergasted.
I'm not disputing the importance and role that SWs serve to society btw.
I'm also not naive to ' parachuting agency staff in ' culture.
But fk me , that's crazzzzy money .

 

[LessoftheLip]

You must be extremely close to the ins and outs of the finances of Birmingham City Council to come to such a definitive, seemingly non-evidenced based, conclusion. A more cynical person than me may suggest that you are blinkered by your flag. Who knows, it may be the case that they all **** in the same pot and feed from the same trough. Be it blue or red…

Well I was going to launch into a lengthy reply but others have said it with much more authority and eloquence than I could. Blinkered by my flag?

 

[festa5]

Surely as a civil servant he shouldn’t be doing that?

Your job is to be impartial

Doing what? Having an opinion in a private conversation? I think he's safe from breaching the civil service code on that one.

Going to blow your mind when you find out we're allowed to vote (and the vast majority won't be voting tory, I'm confident of that).

 

[sherlock]

Because most agency workers where I have worked will accrue toil and be paid for 52 weeks.
It depends on hourly rate which is usually £42 to £45, sometimes more....

£42 - 13.8% = 36.20 x 37x52 = £69,648
£45 - 13.8% = 38.79x 37x52 = £74, 631

and there are workers on higher rates than that - NDAs also quite common now.

I have an NDA in my current role and I did last year in Barnsley as well.

But they’ll then pay NI and income tax.

You said take home pay is £70k. That can’t possibly be the case after NI and tax….

 

[Matt]

But they’ll then pay NI and income tax.

You said take home pay is £70k. They can’t possibly be the case after NI and tax….

I think he means they earn the equivalent of someone working a normal PAYE job on £70-80k, after the ENI is deducted

So before ENI it is probably closer to £80-90k

 

[h_m_boro]

We saw with Croydon? a couple of years back - Labour won overall control of the Council after years of being Tory run, immediately inherited a financial disaster. Within 48 hours the Tories / RWM were pinning the impending crisis on the "Labour controlled council".

FFS.........

 

[Geoff_B]

Doing what? Having an opinion in a private conversation? I think he's safe from breaching the civil service code on that one.

Going to blow your mind when you find out we're allowed to vote (and the vast majority won't be voting tory, I'm confident of that).

I miss read your post as the ext line thought it said he no longer works to lure voters.

No need for the sarcasm