How much do you want to be paid?

i think im very lucky for my age. my base salary is excellent, my commission structure is epic. i just wish there were a few more people around for me to sell to.../. businesses are struggling.... which makes it hard for me to sell them stuff.

meh. we get by.

I'm an apprentice, I get paid around £1.60 UNDER minimum wage.

I have completed my apprenticeship and still on this wage although it's slightly hazy as my apprenticeship is for a year whether I complete before the time is up or not (which I have).

I do like my job and my colleagues and boss are fantastic!

My contract is up in March so hopefully I get offered the job I'm apprenticesing in, at the jobs rightful wage. Also hopefully by then I'll have a brand spanking new body figure just to match!


p.s. I've read every post in this topic so far. Jealous of the guys on 100% commission purely because I suck at selling but when done right it seems amazing. Laughing at those who put up they're not doing much (atm.. I'm the same). Happy quite a few like their jobs! Acknowledge quite a few feel trapped and unhappy in their jobs. Hoping for those without jobs to find good jobs!.. job job JOBs (said jobs alot..)

I spend so much work time on MFP that I should be picking up my pay check with a mask and gun 'cause I am just robbing them.

Well I get about $6k from refunded tuition money each semester that I have to pay back. I'm not employed mainly due to laziness and not wanting to work retail, food, or anything that would require me to smile at hateful people all day.

But when I DO get my degree in Film I want to make a good sum of money to live a comfortable life. Not trying to be rich, but being able to take at least 1 worry-free vacation a year AND having all bills paid on time would be nice.

It could be more, as I'm definitely struggling to make it to the end of the month.
But then that's me spending far too much money on rent.

I'm a full time student and I'm expected to make £8000 a year support two people. After £3700 on rent and water rates (part of my rent), £1500 a year on bills, £500 a year on gas and electric and £612 a year on travel, I don't have much left over for living costs. Approximately £140 a month to cover food, cat food, general groceries etc. for two people. Considering that I'm at uni. almost every day, I volunteer about 12 hours a week and I have to do a full-time, unpaid placement (it'll average at about 45 hours a week) I would like a little more than what works out to be an income of £153 a week. This is more than £100 less per week than the poverty line for 2 adults. So, an extra £100 a week so I'm just straddling that poverty line would be nice, please.

What I would like is to be on an income high enough to comfortably survive off of and have a little money left over to be able to make decisons like go to the cinema as a one off and not know that that is an entire weeks worth of food money that I just spent.

I'd like an income that was high enough so I could move and get a decent flat closer to the city centre so I could travel more on my bike as opposed to buying stupid, expensive bus passes and so I can get out of this horrible town and some certain horrible people in it.

Probably overpaid right now, but that doesn't mean I would object to another raise.

According to my manager, I make more than I should for the job that I do.
According to my coworkers, I need to be paid more because I do more than everyone else.

For me, I'm content with where I'm at. It's more than enough to keep me from "just getting by".

Right now, I'm satisfied. Working as a bartender and making decent money - enough to support myself. However, I'm also going to school to become a nurse, which will triple or quadruple my salary. Definitely want this so I can support a child someday!

My salary has been frozen (public education) for nearly 4 years now. I would just like it to get to where it is *supposed* to be.

JM