Car workers on £13–14,000 a month – true???

Dan29

shewhoguards wrote: »

Um, if it was in Sunderland? Don't dismiss it too fast.

I live not too far away. People are desperate for jobs already up here, and it gets abused. It's not an enormously surprising salary, not around here.

The quote from the article is "£12,000-£13,000 a month", i.e. £150,000 per year.

shewhoguards

Oh right, sorry - sleepy brain tonight!

Spartacus_Mills

Sapphire wrote: »

I saw in an article in the Guardian today that this was what car workers at the Nissan plant were used to being paid. It cannot be true, can it?

If it is, no wonder the plant (possibly the industry as a whole if pay like this is the norm) is in so much trouble. :cool:

That is the annual salary for many people.

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Even if they worked continuously that would be an average hourly salary of over £17 an hour. Knowing people who worked at Nissan that is not likely. Average salary for NMUK is, as reported on Look North, is £20K PA.

aaronoxf

I work at the Mini Plant in Oxford! I earn around £23.000 to £25.000 per year. im a production worker, building engines. we think were the next ones to get the chop! Just lost 380 people before christmas

Chris_Hinds

Unquestionably a typo - probably an extra 0 on the end. That would equate to a salary of about £17k PA or so if so, and that seems far more plausible if not a little low.

sabretoothtigger

Workers at GM detroit are on 80k apparently including benefits or 30 dollars an hour

BMW plans to hire more workers to man its Spartanburg, S.C. production center, while simultaneously upping the night shift from eight hours to ten.

The South Carolina plant currently produces the X5 and Z4, but with production of the X6 CUV beginning a few weeks back, BMW is looking to staff an additional 200 jobs to keep the assembly plant on boil.

http://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/07/bmws-south-carolina-to-boost-output-needs-more-workers/2#comments

Pound

lincroft1710 wrote: »

So assembly line personnel on £150K+ a year? Can't see it myself.

No wonder they're having financial problems.

confused31_2

Ive got a friend that works at jaguar land rover and the assembly workers are on about 25,000 pound a year.

He was saying last week though they were going to offer a enhanced redundency package for workers, which could add up to nearly 100, 000 pound for each worker.

I know it doesnt help the supply chain companies connected to jaguar land rover, but it certainly helps the workers, that work for jaguar landrover.

confused

mr.broderick

Hi

Nissan sunderland workers among highest paid in the business but they work for it.

Just touching on the 1200 jobs that are going.

800 were on a 12 month contract to meet demand of the new qashqai, the other 400 were temps. Hope this helps.

Sapphire

confused31 wrote: »

He was saying last week though they were going to offer a enhanced redundency package for workers, which could add up to nearly 100, 000 pound for each worker.

I know it doesnt help the supply chain companies connected to jaguar land rover, but it certainly helps the workers, that work for jaguar landrover.

confused

For £100,000, I'd jump at redundancy! It's considerably more than the majority of companies would offer (except perhaps for their very highly paid employees).