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How much do you earn per hour and what do you do?
DH and I are both self employed, charging about $40 P/H. He is a floor and wall tiler, I am a saddler
However, I am "over" being self employed and am looking to go back to being employed, albeit doing the same trade I am now, I was thinking that I can only afford to do this if I get $25 p/h (before tax).
I have no idea what people get paid these days.
You could try googling wageline for your state to give a rough idea of the industry standards?
$66
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I'm a nurse on two different pay levels and I earn between $27 and $37 an hour (depending on which job I'm doing).
I get anywhere between $25 and $50 an hour depending on what role I'm doing, if I get the job I interviewed for yesterday (then I'll be on just under $45 an hour), it is for a specialist project role (once that contract is up I'll be on the $50+/hr rate for project roles). At the moment I'm earning a bit under $30 and I'm a cabinet correspondence officer.
Good luck with it all :hug:
i'd agree checking the award for your type of work is the only way to know if an offer is a good pay rate for what you do
i work in a govvy call centre - i am on good money for what i do (compared to previous jobs/award) but not as good as some other call centre positions (both govvy and private).
i don't consider the dollar value of my role to be the primary driver towards whether i'm being paid the best i can for my job. other conditions definitely help. things like additional super, working in a fantastic office (we are ranked number 1 call centre for gov and combined gov/private for CC our size in both vic and AU), flexibility. yeah, it would be nice to be earning the same as some of the other CC's (we are negotiating at the moment) BUT, there is so much more to what keeps me content there kwim?? days like yesterday - when our supervisor went and got the ingredients to make us raspberry spiders "just because". the fact our team have a morning tea once a month. the massive amount of fundraising we do as a centre. it all contributes to us being happy to show up to work
definitely something to think about on top of the $$
I get $20 an hour as a shop assistant.
I agree with BG - my job has allowed me to come back from maternity leave part time. They are also really flexible with hours and often will not take time off out of my allowances. My hourly rate is pretty good, but my work conditions are what keeps me at this job.:
Janie xxx
$25 an hour plus super, and I work for a global construction company doing an admin/PA role. I'm only on a contract though, so if I were to be permanent my hourly rate would drop.
Part time; $27.50 - $35 per hour as a business manager / personal assistant / representative of licensee.
Thankyou everyone.
AFAIK saddler falls under some miscellaneous and obscure category and I cannot find which one it is lol. But award wage is really not the point. I need to get $25 P/h to justify going back to employment. If it was up to me, I would do it for $20, just so I dont have to run my own business and deal with all of the hassles and petty grievences (sp) that it brings. But the reality is that it would not be fair to DH to have to take up the slack financially just because I have a hatred of paperwork, postage and customer relations lol.
I am just longing for the simplicity of leaving work at work and knowing how much $ will be in my acc at the end of the week.
I guess I just wanted to hear that $25 p/h for skilled labour was reasonable. Last time I had a "proper"job (18 yrs ago) I think I was on about $14.50 p/h
Now to find someone who wants me......:D
unfortunately, for a lot of labor positions, $25 is probably at the higher end of the scale for payment. minimum wage is 1178 per fortnight for full time hours - many labor positions are not much above this.
$19 p/h as a casual HSC exam supervisor (assistant). The fully trained one earns $25.
$28 director of childcare centre
DH earns $23 doing Market Research.
I don't get paid per hour but per shift. They're as little as 4 hours + as much as 7 hours in a shift and I get $150 per shift (before tax. After tax it's $136.36)
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I think you'd all die if I told you my hourly rate.
But it's fair to say that I don't do 40 hrs a week and I do an awful lot of unpaid stuff like research and prep that's not part of my usual fee.
And I've spent an awfully long time studying.
I guess it depends.
Divvy I want your job :)
I have studied lots also and earn a very decent hourly rate in my part time role for a large corporate. I do lots of unpaid hours also.
I also do unpaid hours - I think my employer refers to it as dedication to the job. Well, actually, I used to do quite alot of unpaid hours, stuff on weekends, etc, until someone gave me some persective on work/life balance and the lack of appreciation (do you know the word thank you) - $28/hour isn't enough to work for free on weekends, so I avoid it mostly nowadays.
Div - when I am lucky enough to score lecturing its 166/hr, I take all I'm offered :lol: I figure it is well deserved after all these years of study.
$27 p/h as an office manager/ marketing assistant/ PA.
I'm a nurse and get $22 an hour. Hmmph
umm, nothing right now as I'm not working. dh gets around $140 an hour on the job he's doing now,for that he has to be 2000km away from us during the weeks and as he's a contractor, he doesn't get holiday, sick pay or any redundancy if he loses his job.
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I'd love for my DH to be paid $140/hr every time he's been 2000km away from us over the past 20 years! Usually he just gets a poke in the eye instead.
We pay our staff between $20 - $25 for most jobs depending on how long they have been with us and the job we are sending them to.
DH gets $38 an hour minimum. It goes up on Saturday and Sundays, public holidays and night shift. He works as a public officer
I get $20 an hour as a kids swim teacher, that will go up once I do some more training. DH is on salary
Yes, doesn't it peeve you when you are put on a salary when you are expected to do the job regardless of how long it takes ie doing 12 hour days and going in on weekends. My DH was on a set salary for his last job as a home loan manager but when you factored in his long hours and weekend work his hourly rate was less than a 20 yo teller who worked from 9 - 5 Mon to Fri. Needless to say he quit!
Exactly. My hourly rate is massive. But I only get paid for the actual hours that I work. So if I only work 4 hrs one week, I only get paid for those hours.
And if I'm in court for ten mins or for the whole day, my rate is the same. And that rate includes preparation etc.
I never get paid for the admin/billing/phone calls/research/etc that I do. That's all off my own bat, so to speak.
For example, it's Saturday afternoon and I've spent three hours reading the latest case law. That's not paid. I do that 3-4 times per week. That's 9-12 hrs of unpaid work each week.
TBH I have absolutely no idea what my "rate" would be if I added in all the unpaid hours. And the schmoozing. Don't forget the schmoozing. I reckon it costs me $200/wk for schmoozing. But you have to spend money to make money in my game... that schmoozing gets me work.
Very true about the schmoozing. Can't schmooze very much in a country town and there is very little support from peers (because you are the only guy doing the job in town!)
... so the isolation was the final straw for my DH. And they wonder why they can't PAY people to move to this region (there is a $7,000 grant for city peoploe who sell their home to move here... they expected hundreds to take up the offer... about 3 are thinking about it!) Sorry off topic now but there is so much more than hourly rates when it comes to a viable career. Interesting thread though.
I hope your accountant is claiming all that unpaid work, because s/he can and should be.
Like Div, my hourly rate is embarrassing so I won't put it out there. :redface: I do get paid for every hour I work for clients, but that doesn't include my business paperwork or DP's. I work anywhere from zero hours per week to forty, managed by setting retainer fees over a year. In my defense, if I went to work for a consultancy firm, they would charge me out at about three times what I already think is high!
Had to make it worthwhile shelling out tens of thousands and many, many years of undergrad and postgrad studies though! ;)
I don't work more than two to three days most weeks. I would get a much higher salary if I took a job, but like Bath has pointed out, it's the other stuff that matters. I am not prepared to sacrifice my lifestyle and family time.
Yep, my best/longest worked job (5 years) only paid $12.70 an hour. BUT it worked in perfectly with uni (I was studying part time) and because it was at a school they gave me 25% off my DD's school fees PLUS provided me some top quality professional development (no cost to me) and free vaccinations if I wanted them. I'd work there tomorrow if we lived nearby. Best of all they inspired/encouraged me to pursue full teaching qualifications and one of the teachers remains my friend and mentor... can't put a price on that :)
Just over $25/hr plus super, sick leave, holiday etc I am worth more, but being in a rural area it is hard to get what the actual role is "worth", but saying that, I am able to work school hours, there is never an issue taking leave for the kids, I can bring the kids to the office if need be and the boss makes me a latte a day ;)
As a registerd nurse I get anywhere from $38hr weekdays up to $66 on Sundays and almost $80 on public holidays. My pay also differs depending on which shift I work eg morning, afternoon or night shift. I also have significant salary sacrafice benefits which increases my over all take homw pay. The flexibility in the shift works also makes it possible to work with small children