Shared job and minimum wage thoughts

PasturesNew

When a job includes "live in" with bills paid, the NMW is treated differently.

Me2you

£7,500 each. Lol. NO

Nookie5

xapprenticex wrote: »

You're going to relocate for 15k??

I couldn't find a job locally, relocated over a hundred miles for a below £8k part-time job in a supermarket, and even when you include overtime it only goes a bit above £8k. After a year I moved on to a much higher salary in another job. My current employer offered me a job out of respect I survived a year without claiming benefits.


And no I did not receive financial assistance from family or friends. It's all careful budgeting.


My friend who was in the same situation as me refused to relocate, kept demanding for a £20k plus job and guess what? He's still unemployed.

PasturesNew

To make a comparison with JSA....

A single person would get a roof over their head and £73/week. All bills and food and social life would have to come from that £73.

In this job the OP would get a roof over their head, all bills paid, all food found and an on-site social life possibly..... AND £144/week.

Those laughing at the figures ... need to wind their necks in as, compared to not having a job, that's "pretty sweet".

It depends from which direction you're looking at it.

Yes it could end in tears ..... anything can though. And the OP won't be "alone/miles from home".

warby68

It sounds low but without knowing in more detail the job description and working hours plus what the accommodation ( a flat or a room) and other benefits are like, its hard to say. However my gut says this is someone trying to get 2 people for the price of one really.

OP says they will save £11k in living expenses so I guess the value of the job to them is £15k + £11k so £26k in crude terms, still not a lot for 2 people although not bad for one full time wage.

xapprenticex

Nookie5 wrote: »

I couldn't find a job locally, relocated over a hundred miles for a below £8k part-time job in a supermarket, and even when you include overtime it only goes a bit above £8k. After a year I moved on to a much higher salary in another job. My current employer offered me a job out of respect I survived a year without claiming benefits.


And no I did not receive financial assistance from family or friends. It's all careful budgeting.


My friend who was in the same situation as me refused to relocate, kept demanding for a £20k plus job and guess what? He's still unemployed.

Yeah but your friends issue isnt about location, more about over estimating his current worth in the marketplace, he could relocate and with the same lofty exceptions and be in the same situation. But i see what you are trying to say.

takman

Alisonloub wrote: »

We don’t have rent, bills, food or travel to pay for and won’t be going out as much as we used to due to location, so yes relocate for 15k a year between us. It’s not a lot of money but for what we ‘are getting’ or ‘saving’ (worked out about 11k we would be saving a year on all of the above) and if we can show the boss that we can generate more income (website which needs up dating, social media is non existent, not many functions etc) he has said he will look to raising it in a few months.

I was just wondering peoples thoughts on the wage (that’s not family or friends) if it seems reasonable for the package we are getting, etc.

Thanks for your comments

To me food sounds like it may be a bit of an issue depending on what is on offer. If your just having food from the standard hotel menu then you probably will get fed up with that pretty quickly. Will you have any facilitates to cook your own food otherwise eating out and takeaways might add up to a lot considering your limited wage.

Owain_Moneysaver

PasturesNew wrote: »

To make a comparison with JSA....

A single person would get a roof over their head and £73/week. All bills and food and social life would have to come from that £73.

In this job the OP would get a roof over their head, all bills paid, all food found and an on-site social life possibly..... AND £144/week.

Those laughing at the figures ... need to wind their necks in as, compared to not having a job, that's "pretty sweet".

But the OP would have to work (and probably rather hard) for that extra £71 a week.

For £10 a day extra I wouldn't be getting out of bed.

Nookie5

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

But the OP would have to work (and probably rather hard) for that extra £71 a week.

For £10 a day extra I wouldn't be getting out of bed.

That's why after 5-10 years of claiming benefits you're still claiming benefits. Staying in bed on your CV's employment history won't help you get a decent job, but working in a hotel will, and you might also get promoted several a couple of years.

Alisonloub

Thank you for all your comments, this is the reason I wanted some thoughts from strangers, the above worries are bothering me, the hotel doesn’t have any real direction from the guy that owns it, I get the impression that he wants us to try and boost the image of the hotel and I’ve worked in this kind of job before, if he calls us general managers then he couldn’t pay the low wage, calling us duty managers means he can pay a lower wage.
We want to take the job for the experience more than anything so when we do want to move on we have any some, working together etc because obviously higher paid couple jobs want experience (I’ve had the managerial side, husband has not), so for that we want to do it but say after a few months and we have been working non stop for a very little wage I think we would be looking to cut our losses.

Not sure what to do, go for the experience alone but be ‘ok’ for money (we will be fine) but don’t want the new boss to be getting loads of work out of us and paying us very little, we’re due the contract soon, we shall see what that says.

Thanks again x