Thread: Are our tradies getting paid too much

Originally Posted by rovercare

Get good people and its worth every bit, so at 2200 the take home $1300ish and work 6 days, how much are their house repayments? bills? food? its not really alot of money these days

Don't know who you get to do your tax or to provide you with tax advice but 37c in the dollar is only applicable to earnings over $80k and 45c only for that over $180k, at $2200/wk it comes to something like $114k p.a. the first $80k only attracts $17.55k. I think you might be understating what the weekly after tax earnings would be for this example. But that is not unusual as people normally claim that they get paid too little and pay too much tax.

Originally Posted by rovercare

Get good people and its worth every bit, so at 2200 the take home $1300ish and work 6 days, how much are their house repayments? bills? food? its not really alot of money these days

If they don't live the lifestyle of a South American playboy or have a huge tribe of ankle biters (which beget a huge amount of Family Allowances anyhow) they should be able to save several hundred dollars a week on that, and get a tax refund of most of what they lost on Payg.

Originally Posted by slug_burner

Don't know who you get to do your tax or to provide you with tax advice but 37c in the dollar is only applicable to earnings over $80k and 45c only for that over $180k, at $2200/wk it comes to something like $114k p.a. the first $80k only attracts $17.55k. I think you might be understating what the weekly after tax earnings would be for this example. But that is not unusual as people normally claim that they get paid too little and pay too much tax.

Just looked at a pay slip which has 2658.21 gross and 1853 net, I did the math wrong, you are correct

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

If they don't live the lifestyle of a South American playboy or have a huge tribe of ankle biters (which beget a huge amount of Family Allowances anyhow) they should be able to save several hundred dollars a week on that, and get a tax refund of most of what they lost on Payg.

What's the median house price in Brisbane? I have friends who get by on 1k a week, but they live in 30 year old small houses in average places where housing is mid 100's value, it can be done, no doubt, but I'm selfish and want to retire before I'm 100

Saving several hundred will see a few luxury items, but not alot

I do it all on 1 income, my partner is a dedicated housewife/caveman carer, I put the hard yards in and so does she, will it pay off in time? Who knows

Best advice I've heard when talking to a dude about the best way to make financial headway was..live a long time, haha

Sheesh Dave, you've opened a can of worms here, mate!

Question for you all, a bit off topic but I hope not too far:
Given that I'm a service technician, which obviously means a certain amount of travel from site to site. Why do employers want you to live next door to the sites before they'll consider hiring you? Honestly, Qld is 7 times the size of the UK, yet I do less than half the km's here than I did there in the same trade. Again, if you're the bloke or lass the co. wants to hire, it doesn't matter too much where you live. I lived in Oxford but covered the NW & W London regions for one firm. Another, my office covered all of southern England below a line drawn roughly half way up Wales to half way up East Anglia (the eastwards bulge above London in case you are wondering) & we all worked all over that region. I averaged between 55000 & 60000 MILES per year. Here, I cover the Gold Coast. That's it. My last firm, ditto except they did send me to Northen Rivers a few times, and I did cover a callout at Caboolture once. No firm has yet offered me a job working in Brisbane despite my pretty decent qualifications & CV, in almost every case the reason given is because I live on the Gold Coast.

Eh?

Easy, OH+S

when it comes to fatique managment they are supposed to take into account your travelling time to and from work, Work care pays out on your trip to and from the worksite.

never judge a book by its cover........

It's all about supply and demand, brickies where earning before 1995-98 about 350-500 per thousand bricks laid around NSW, because of the building rush with the olympics and the housing boom that shot up to $1000+ per thousand bricks laid otherwise you got no walls
Same thing has happened around sydney with mechanics/fitters etc a in-law relo i know owns a mid sized workshop and was complaining of the hourly rate non relatives where asking for as the coal mines and service companies where all offering 40+ for good mechanics +shift and weekend allowances and as one of his sons had left for another job he had to pay them all real wages