Selchie Productions

The minimum wage in the UK, if you’re aged 21 and over is £6.08

That is £2 less than what the person with the lowest salary in Sweden earns per hour.

But don’t think it stops there; if you’re an apprentice, you earn £2.60 an hour during your first year.

That’s £416 a month if you work full time. My rent is £400, nothing included.

Literally every apprentice would have to get at least LHA to survive, but they’re obviously being ‘leeches on the system’, despite working full time.

People disgust me.

Posted on 24th Jan 12

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thesefewpresidents said: Wait a fucking minute have they raised it lately because that’s not what I was being paid in 2009 >:( Also it’s €8.65 here (thought it’d been lowered actually, but apparently not) or £7.22, in case you were interested.
namemefish said: About the same wage as here. But £2.60/hour as a first-year stagaire? That is bullshit because we don’t do that here. Although admittedly I can live on that with $65/week to spare for food and others.
neetainari said: I’m not actually sure what the wage levels are in Finland, but suggestions to set a fixed minimum wage of 10€/h has been met with resistance, on the basis that “people should be responsible and make do with what they get.” Disgusting.
robert-brydie said: Mind as well that they’d only get the shared room rate for it being a private tenancy. Add to this the fact that since they are in employment and receiving a wage they would not be entitled to the full amount as it’d be “means tested”.
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konjum-mainakkale said: here, it’s only about 4.35 GBP or so. and some of the Republicans think it should be LOWER.
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eritiis said: Well, It’s UK. Not Sweden. Paris is kinda worst/thesame
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