Most underpaid profession?

PlymouthMaid

Care work will always be low paid I suppose as, firstly, it requires relatively little training or qualifications and , secondly, it has to be paid at a lower hourly rate than many of those paying for a childminder, for instance, earn themselves else they would have no customers.

JReacher1

Agreed nurses is the most underpaid profession. It takes years of training and the job can be horrific and yet the pay is derisory by comparison.

I can't think of a more underpaid job.

pinpin

what about the reverse? Most overpaid job?! Something you can qualify in fairly easily without the need to be clever and earn a decent wage for not doing much!!????
Please tell me it exists and I'll start a course asap!!

globalds

No one has mentioned Politicians ?

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pinpin wrote: »

what about the reverse? Most overpaid job?! Something you can qualify in fairly easily without the need to be clever and earn a decent wage for not doing much!!????
Please tell me it exists and I'll start a course asap!!

Have you met an estate agent before? No formal qualifications at all, selling stuff people need to people who willingly want to buy it; without actually needing to be good at selling thing.

WolfSong2000

Gavin83 wrote: »

The problem with all of these is that they're public sector jobs and therefore the pay will always be stunted. Increased pay will mean increased taxes.

Don't you believe it! The balance in terms of pay is just majorly out of whack. Nurses are paid a pittance whilst other areas of the NHS (mostly office based) can command huge salaries. I work in procurement and an interim head of a department can command £500-£600 per day. I still don't understand why they can command that much when nurses are paid so little by comparison? Seems completely crazy to me...though may go some way to explaining why the NHS is in the mess it is in - priorities are all screwed up!

annie_d

Carers, most definitely. Minimum pay, long hours,challenging situations on every shift and little thanks.

getmore4less

Look at package not pay.

FBaby

Biomedical scientists

Totally agree with this. I was really surprised to find out what grade they are on. Considering it is them who often make the diagnosis of cancer rather than the actual consultant, it is quite shocking.

Nurses...mmmm, very much depend. I agree that some do have very stressful jobs, others have it much easier. Community nurses are usually under much less stress than nurses on wards.

Another group who I think is massively underpaid is paramedics. Walking into a house where a child is dying, with hysterical parents, trying to revive that child, what a job...

WolfSong2000

FBaby wrote: »

Nurses...mmmm, very much depend. I agree that some do have very stressful jobs, others have it much easier. Community nurses are usually under much less stress than nurses on wards.

Some community nurses also have it pretty tough...a good friend of mine is a community nurse who deals with "end of life" patients. It's not a pleasant role and takes a very special kind of person to not only be able to continually show the empathy required, but to also not break down for the same reason.