Metrolink salary and hours

[notadriver]

Can anyone tell me the current Metrolink salary please ? Also how many hours a week are worked ? Are breaks deducted from pay ?

Any help appreciated.

 

[Neatro]

Starting salary is £21,791 for 12 months, then it goes up to £25,000 for 18 months. Then 27,000 for another 18 months. Then you're on top grade which currently sits at £37,000.

It's averaged 37.5 hours a week but some you'll do more, some you'll do less.

In a 12 week period it has to total 449 hours.

And breaks aren't deducted, you just aren't paid for 30 minutes of it.

 

[Efini92]

Starting salary is £21,791 for 12 months, then it goes up to £25,000 for 18 months. Then 27,000 for another 18 months. Then you're on top grade which currently sits at £37,000.

It's averaged 37.5 hours a week but some you'll do more, some you'll do less.

In a 12 week period it has to total 449 hours.

And breaks aren't deducted, you just aren't paid for 30 minutes of it.

The pay has certainly got better there, they still don’t get paid enough in my opinion though.

 

[Trainrave]

I’d say that £37k for top whack is a decent wage. The problem is how long it takes to get there.
I would have been happy to leave my previous role if I knew I could earn £37k within a reasonable amount of time, but with a mortgage and bills, under £30k is unmanageable for 4 years.

 

[Starmill]

Unfortunately that seems to be the way of it - they're mainly bringing people into tram driving from other professional driving (buses, delivery vans etc) where introductory pay is on a par, but the top of the scale is better than those. It does cut the other way, in the past they have lost experienced drivers to mainline train driving.

 

[Efini92]

I’d say that £37k for top whack is a decent wage. The problem is how long it takes to get there.
I would have been happy to leave my previous role if I knew I could earn £37k within a reasonable amount of time, but with a mortgage and bills, under £30k is unmanageable for 4 years.

Not for what they have to do on a daily basis. I take my hat off to them driving through the city centre having to watch out for pedestrians and cars.

 

[Efini92]

Think about the poor trainee’s who are classes as trainee’s for a year on supermarket shelf stacking wages even though they can be all lines trained and doing the exact same job as the guys earning 37k.

Also the trainee’s are left on a roster that is basically spares for over a year and they only find out their duties the week prior.

Also when it come to enforced overtime which does happen a trainee’s rate will be about £17 and a top grade will be about £28 per hour.

Many trainee’s leave before they reach top grade.

The conditions are shockingly bad. There was a push some years ago to have ASLEF recognised as their union, sadly it didn’t come off.

 

[notadriver]

Why are the conditions so bad ? Is it relatively easy to recruit new tram drivers ?

 

[Starmill]

Why are the conditions so bad ? Is it relatively easy to recruit new tram drivers ?

The tram drivers are represented by Unite so I would expect them to have something to say if conditions were intolerable.

 

[Ducatist4]

Tram driving seems more akin to bus driving that train driving - even the legislation controlling it is different.

 

[D Rivers]

The conditions aren’t that bad. People just like to moan.

 

[notadriver]

Tram driving seems more akin to bus driving that train driving - even the legislation controlling it is different.

It’s amazing how closely they can follow each other when coming into a platform. Am I right in saying that just like a bus they have brake lights and indicators ?

 

[Efini92]

It’s amazing how closely they can follow each other when coming into a platform. Am I right in saying that just like a bus they have brake lights and indicators ?

Yes I believe they have to have that as they run on the roads.

 

[tramfan208]

The conditions are shockingly bad. There was a push some years ago to have ASLEF recognised as their union, sadly it didn’t come off.

Enquiries were also made with the RMT, the written reply was words to the effect of “we have no interest in representing bus drivers”. Make of that what you will.

 

[whoosh]

Enquiries were also made with the RMT, the written reply was words to the effect of “we have no interest in representing bus drivers”. Make of that what you will.

I doubt that. They represent bus drivers!

Wilts & Dorset is one place where the RMT represent Bus Drivers I believe, and why else have a Bus Workers Handbook?!

Bus Workers Handbook

www.rmt.org.uk

 

[D Rivers]

I doubt that. They represent bus drivers!

Wilts & Dorset is one place where the RMT represent Bus Drivers I believe, and why else have a Bus Workers Handbook?!

Bus Workers Handbook

www.rmt.org.uk

Nope, it’s true. I saw the reply myself!

 

[GB]

Nope, it’s true. I saw the reply myself!

Clearly the idiot didn't understand what the "T" stood for.

 

[whoosh]

Nope, it’s true. I saw the reply myself!

Strange! Unless they just didn't want to poach current Unite members - politics/good relations between unions (not treading on toes etc.).

That's really the only rational reason to decline.

 

[the sniper]

Nope, it’s true. I saw the reply myself!

Who was it from? Was this just posted up on a messroom wall? Are you sure it was real...?

Given that bus drivers and indeed taxi drivers are represented by the RMT, that response wouldn't make much sense, for various reasons.

Strange! Unless they just didn't want to poach current Unite members - politics/good relations between unions (not treading on toes etc.).

That's really the only rational reason to decline.

That sounds plausible, even if the 'reply' doesn't.