Chi pensano che i britannici siano pagati in eccesso e sottopagati?
https://yougov.co.uk/society/articles/52818-who-do-britons-think-are-overpaid-and-underpaid
di insomnimax_99
Chi pensano che i britannici siano pagati in eccesso e sottopagati?
https://yougov.co.uk/society/articles/52818-who-do-britons-think-are-overpaid-and-underpaid
di insomnimax_99
26 commenti
Overpaid: MPs
Underpaid: teachers, nurses.
For what it’s worth I’d be happy with MPs earning £300,000 a year but it has to be subject to the satisfaction of the people who voted for them.
All this does is prove that the general public shouldn’t be trusted with important decisions.
11% of people think that teachers are overpaid. Insane.
Overpaid: footballers, entertainers & media ‘personalities’
Underpaid: people who build societies ( public workers ) = teachers, care workers, hospital staff, sanitation workers, construction, emergency workers, military
Depends what people’s definition of ‘overpaid’ is. If it’s a case of someone’s worth to a private business, footballers aren’t overpaid. They are incredibly good at the most popular sport on the planet. They bring in millions for their clubs in shirt sales and ever increasing TV deals, because people want to watch them play. It’s never made sense to me that they are overpaid – they are worth that amount of money to these clubs, otherwise they wouldn’t be paid it.
Hmm. Sometimes I wonder if anybody knows anybody else’s working pay and conditions. Or if this is all based on perception and belief.
For example, actors, company directors and male footballers must have an incredibly wide base of pay.
I’d love to see this crsph against one showing what the public *think* these people are paid.
Eg: all those that think olympic athletes are overpaid – what do they think the average athlete earns? I bet it’s much higher than reality.
Also cannot help but laugh at this quote
>By contrast, just 4-7% of Britons feel that the top ‘overpaid’ professions, i.e. bankers, company directors, male footballers and MPs, contribute a huge amount to British society.
The people who run the country and all the businesses in it don’t contribute much to society, eh?
Its an interesting chart, most notably for me up amongst the usual jealousy professions we see train drivers. I think this wont bode well for the rail unions.
I’m surprised postal workers are low, I would have thought they would be higher after the industrial action of a couple of years ago which wasn’t particularly well managed PR wise.
Odd that they’ve separated out nurses and ambulance staff given that they’re both on the same pay scale. Do they mean that ambulance staff need re-banding? Or that AfC should be abolished and we should go back to individual profession pay agreements, which would weaken everyone’s negotiating position. Seems like a weird position to take
43% think train drivers are overpaid, it does make me laugh. A single person in control of a 300 tonne vehicle travelling at speeds up to 125mph with 1000 people on.
One serious mistake could kill hundreds.
This is such a pointless poll because you just know that the majority of people haven’t got a clue what most of these professions are paid.
Remember COVID essential workers ? All of those are underpaid.
Underpaid: Anyone who works in Infrastructure/ services that run and maintain the things that enables everyone else to do what they do.
Overpaid: Actors, Media Personalities, Politicians, Bankers
Massively Overpaid: Footballers
Railway workers and train drivers are overpaid. I know, I spent 15 years in Network Rail. There are guys sitting in signal boxes pulling 1 lever per hour, earning £70k
Underpaid: Home care workers, especially those who provide overnight care, sometimes paid below minimum wage because of care firms taking advantage of their workers.
This just offers a window into the psyche of the average Brit tbh and shows why no one should put any weight to public opinion regarding salary and strikes etc. Basically anyone who is successful and making a decent wage must be overpaid, I really don’t think there is another first world country that reacts to success in the way the UK does. The irony is that the crab bucket mentality is what suppresses wages for everyone.
Footballers of course are not overpaid, they are essentially subject to pure market forces and paid almost exactly what they are worth. Actors similarly can not possibly be overpaid and the average Brit seems not to be aware of how little most actors make. Resident and senior doctors in the UK are grossly underpaid compared to what they made 20 years ago, what they would make in the private sector and what they would make in other countries, in fact the UK now has some of the lowest doctor wages in the first world. Interestingly, while nurses also get shafted the pay disparity between the UK and other countries is largest in senior doctors, then residents and then nurses. The UK public have it the complete opposite in the survey, again because Brits resent you more the more you make, regardless of what a fair market rate is.
I just think this Infograph proves large swathes of the population are uneducated and lack critical thinking. Footballers top of the list, do they earn a lot? Yes. Does anyone deserve to ever earn that amount of money? Probably not? Are they overpaid? They work in an entertainment industry watched all over the globe which generates billions upon billions of pounds and has an ecosystem connected to it which runs 24 hours a day talking about it constantly, similar can be said to actors.
You’re overpaid. I’m underpaid.
Joking. You’re not overpaid.
I mean, that is just weird, isn’t it.
Male footballers make so much money because millions worship them as heroes.
And then those same millions think they are overpaid?
I read into this study that reflection is not a strong point for the majority of society.
Crazy how people don’t think MPs contribute to society. How far things have fallen
Apparently people don’t think male footballers contribute much to society.
They bring in a lot of money to the treasury and are probably one of the few professions that bring a significant net gain.
If you see that successive UK governments have been strangled by envy politics – it would suggest most see anyone not scraping by, as earning too much.
They’re happy to see the government and country crumble and slowly go bankrupt, because the necessary tax policies required to start digging the UK out of a colossal hole would be seen as tax cuts for the rich. And by ‘rich’, I mean anyone with a decent income.
Many workers are underpaid. Nobody is overpaid – they get what they can negotiate.
>Nearly half of the public (46%) see cleaners as contributing a great deal to British society,
I wonder how many people would change their tune if all cleaners decided to up sticks and move on. Wouldn’t take long I wager when they turn up to work and the toilet is still blocked from yesterday.
Did this poll even tell people how much each profession got paid? We’d probably need the mode rather than the average.
Also, how many cunts do you think don’t know the difference between a barista and a barrister?
Actors and male footballers suffer from the same issue: it’s hugely skewed by a few people at the top. Most footballers barely make enough to live, same as actors. It’s a few famous ones that come to mind. Company directors are similar: you can be a company director tomorrow on zero salary, but people are probably thinking of FTSE 500 directors. Lawyers are notoriously skewed as well, you either make just about enough to live, or you’re a partner track lawyer at a magic circle firm.
Also perhaps the categories are a bit odd. There’s a split between male and female footballers, but there’s no engineers or software developers? Doctors are split by seniority. There’s bus drivers but not long haul lorry drivers? Where are chefs and waiters?
Shows you that we shouldn’t decide on pay based on popularity.
C-Suite execs of companies they do not have controlling ownership of are the only ones truly overpaid in this country. Male footballers at the top level earn a huge amount but it is still only a fraction of the revenue brought in on the back of their talent and they only get those earnings during their relatively short playing career.
Most middle-income professional roles have seen huge wage stagnation while minimum wage has risen much more. This just compressed the wage field of most people in the UK where now the difference between a service or retail job and professional position requiring a degree can be as little as £5-10k a year.