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Not 100% sure if this'll fit in here, but hopefully.I'm looking to move companies and have an offer on the table from a local company, which I feel is a low offer in regards to salary.

I don't expect the world, but would be interested in a ball park figure that people feel might be right, basically I want to make sure I'm not looking at a pipe dream but also being reasonable.

A difficult one to judge I'm sure but thought I'd ask.I have my unvented ticket, my CCN1 gas and Analyser, water regs, City & Guilds level 2 and 3.My general workload includes bathroom fitting, be it wet rooms or a top end fit out.

I also have a lot of expirence of installing Oil and Natural Gas boilers. General plumbing maintance on the heating system or household plumbing is fine.All my expirence is domestic based.I know the backgrounds of renewables - Solar hot water, ground and air source heat pumps and we maintain a couple as a company but it's never brought much business our way.I'm relatively new to the plumbing and heating industry with only ~5 years under my belt.

I know that this will count against me. I also know that my expirence of diagnosing boiler breakdowns is quite limited, so it's this that I'll need to buck up on.I've an offer from a local firm who mainly specialise in boilers and general maintance.

They seem to outsource bathrooms.With this is mind, I believe that my bathroom fitting expirence maybe doesn't mean as much to them, so not being worth paying extra for. I've fitted a few bathrooms, an unvented cylinder and full from scratch central heating system off my own back, so I'm quite confident, it's just making this clear as I currently always work in a small group due to the small numbers of the company.

So, is that anywhere near enough information to go on to hazard a rough salary guess from would be employers, or can I provide more to aid?

What do you pay your apprentice for level 2, then level 3, then Gas qualified qualification steps?

I'm no longer an apprentice, so the next step up money wise would hopefully be.....?
 
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£8.00-15.00 depends on the firm,part of the country your in and experience
 
I know it will vary, but this is a good guide:

[DLMURL]http://www.unitetheunion.org/pdf/IssuedPayRates20112012Prom163A3.pdf[/DLMURL]

1. BASIC RATES OF HOURLY PAY

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From
From
3rd Jan. 2011
2nd Jan. 2012
(a)
Operatives:
[FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri](See Note 3 below) [/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]Technician PHMES Operative
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£14.55
£14.99
[FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]Advanced PHMES Operative
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£13.11
£13.50
[FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]PHMES Operative
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[/FONT]
£11.24
£11.58
(b)
Apprentices:
[FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri](See Note 4 below) [/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]4th Year of Training with NVQ Level 3*
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[/FONT]
£10.87
£11.20
[FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]4th Year of Training with NVQ Level 2*
[/FONT]
[/FONT]
£9.85
£10.15
[FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]4th Year of Training
[/FONT]
[/FONT]
£8.68
£8.94
[FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]3rd Year of Training with NVQ Level 2*
[/FONT]
[/FONT]
£8.57
£8.83
[FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]3rd Year of Training
[/FONT]
[/FONT]
£7.05
£7.26
[FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]2nd Year of Training
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[/FONT]
£6.24
£6.43
[FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]1st Year of Training
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[/FONT]
£5.45
£5.61
(c)
Adult Trainees:
[FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]3rd - 6 months of Employment
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£9.80
£10.09
[FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]2nd - 6 months of Employment
[/FONT]
[/FONT]
£9.41
£9.69
[FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]1st - 6 months of Employment
[/FONT]
[/FONT]
£8.77
£9.03
 
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i get lots of agencies phoning me with work usually site work around the 12/14 an hour mark this is inner london
i had one cheeky sod offering me £9 an hour with the added bonus of i could work as many hours as i wanted
 
i get lots of agencies phoning me with work usually site work around the 12/14 an hour mark this is inner london
i had one cheeky sod offering me £9 an hour with the added bonus of i could work as many hours as i wanted

When are you starting? ;)
 
Right guys, thanks for the replies. I've been away for the weekend so sorry about the lack or replies.

Throughout most of my 4 years working for the company I have been on ~10K per year. With my recently completion of NVQ level 3 and my addition of an unvented and gas qualification, I was put up to 12.5K per year (minimum wage, which I believe goes up in October!?)

I thought that I had worked for pretty low wages for most of the training and this pay rise was quite far off what I was hoping for, but not a million miles away from what I expected.
My current employment is a small company, 3 of us in total and I wasn't expecting the money (for pay rise) and extra work to cover it to come out of thin air.

So, for that an other reasons, I think that I've out grown the company through no fault of their own.

So this leads to me this job offer. I approached them as they were the local company to me. I ddn't search very far!
They mainly do boilers (domestic and commercial) and plumbing work. They mostly defer their bathroom jobs to other companies.

I find that quite a lot of the bigger firms tend to specialise more - boilers or bathrooms as opposed to taking on the whole lot which is what I'm looking for. I like the mixture of work.



I'm located in the South Coast. If you take an average of those figures noted above, so £11.50 per hour. 40 hours per week = £460 per week. £1840 per month. £22080 per year.


I posted this thread as I was hoping for nearer to the £20K mark. At least 18K, but I wanted to know if I was thinking pie in the sky and ground myself. It seems a kick that I could good better pay (than I'm currently looking at) working an unskilled job in a shop or similar.


Oh and as a foot note: I posted the opening post from my iPhone, I had sentences, paragraph's, the works when I posted it, but it seems to have posted as one mass of text, so thanks for taking the time to read the unappealing mess. Can I edit it, I can't see the button?
 
This may be none of my business and sorry for a late reply, but I'm a self employed ground worker, all I do is septic tanks, bio discs and land drainage, I mainly work for agencies and I get 24k a year. I think you are worth a lot more. It's all about relevance against current climate. Hope this helps
 
The offered been raised up to 17 with a review in 6 months where it could possibly go up to 20k.

Still not as much as I wanted but where I am at the moment i'm on less and I'm getting wound up with one of the employes.

Doesn't seem to be loads of other offers about to be honest.
 
Personally i wouldnt do this job for less than 30k, its supposed to be skilled work, not minimum wage
 
Just had a phone call from a company that I applied to a while ago offering me an interview. I provisionally said yes to the first offer today...The offer today has an interview set up for Monday afternoon which I said that'll I'll attend.

Will I be ****ing the first bloke around?
 
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