Tetchytyke
Veteran Member
Average page in BE is about 46k for the driving grade, the problem is that the juniors are getting little above 35k and the seniors are taking home over 60k
I can well believe that the seniors end up with the best routes and they earn more as a result. But it's the same in most lines of work, on the railways the best schedules are reserved for the senior links. You work your way up.
If people can't work their way up, then there's a problem.
An overtime bill at Bus Eireann of EUR13m a year seems excessive. But, equally, if that overtime bill has been EUR13m a year for donkey's years then BE should be budgeting for it accordingly. If they didn't, that is weak management.
I was talking about in Ireland.
There aren't any big commercial operators in Ireland.
I think it's fair to compare to what happens in the UK, though, where directors get paid a fortune and drivers get diddly.
When I lived in Ireland it was controversy over them but the same people who are calling for increased tax funding to the companies are the same ones who did not want to pay property tax or water tax, they do not see the connection with the amount of tax being paid versus the amount of tax money that can be spent on public services.
I've not had the pleasure, but t'missus lived and worked in Ireland for ten years. The issue she always had was that taxes initially went up to allegedly pay for things like water and buses- look at the Universal Social Charge, for instance- and then the government, having taken the extra tax, decided to salami slice exemptions out of it. The bins was the starting point- in Dublin it's EUR100 a year to hire a bin and then it's EUR10 per empty- and then the water, not to mention EUR50 charges every time she went to the GP.
It was the little taxes, like the EUR30/year stamp duty on having a credit card and the EUR5/year stamp duty on her debit card, not to mention 12c every time she took some cash out, that really upset her though. I can see why.
ainsworth74 said:What's the MD of Go North East on?
IIRC Kevin Carr is on about £400,000 a year.
By comparison, his bus drivers get paid £17,000 a year for a 39 hour week.