$19 per hour

[Erelyes]

All good then. John (the accountant) just takes the figures straight out of the all encompassing guide book. That way there's always a refund due at the end of the year, unless the pay was exactly the same every week.

Yep; Or unless there are 53 pay-days in the year, or 27 pay-fortnights. Or unless the employee muffs up the taxcode, has other earnings, etc

[avgas]

take home $5 / day

[FlangMasterJ]

How many hours?

19X40=760

760X52=39,520

20,000X19%=3,800

19,520X24%=4,684.8

Tax=$8484.8

$39,520-$8484.8=$31,035.2

$31,035.2/52=$596.83 take home per week...

You lazy cunt.

[F5 Dave]

Is that the going rate for a ghey escort in Fanganooeye?

i think you're worth way more dharling.

[george formby]

$19 per hour? From personal experience when I was a single man with more vices, that income was just enough to get my hopes up. Now that I have an interest in wool slippers & the Bunnings catalogue things are looking pretty good. But, as my G/F often says, I'm easily satisfied.

[jasonu]

If it's the only income of a single chap, it's heaps to get by on in a Wellington flatting situation.

Single income for a family...Not even fucking close!

It is enough to run my household including pay the mortgage, all utilities, insurance for the house and 2 cars, petrol, food, the occasional night out for me and the wife, the odd unexpected (vet) bill and actually save a couple of hundy a month too. I was wanting to get a bit of an comparison on just how far a middle income wage goes in both countries.
Interesting your Wellington comment. What I make wouldn't cut it in a bigger city than (80,000 pop)Bend. Having said that, the pay for what I do (metal fab/welder) in the bigger cities is about $6hr more than it is in Bend which makes it pretty similar to what it pays in NZ.

[jasonu]

Is that the going rate for a ghey escort in Fanganooeye?

:

All that info is printed on the back of your season ticket

[F5 Dave]

Don't forget since you lived here food prices have gone up out of proportion to inflation.

[jasonu]

Don't forget since you lived here food prices have gone up out of proportion to inflation.

Yes mate I saw that last Feb. The everyday stuff ie the cost of living in NZ is outrageous.

[Drew]

It is enough to run my household including pay the mortgage, all utilities, insurance for the house and 2 cars, petrol, food, the occasional night out for me and the wife, the odd unexpected (vet) bill and actually save a couple of hundy a month too. I was wanting to get a bit of an comparison on just how far a middle income wage goes in both countries.
Interesting your Wellington comment. What I make wouldn't cut it in a bigger city than (80,000 pop)Bend. Having said that, the pay for what I do (metal fab/welder) in the bigger cities is about $6hr more than it is in Bend which makes it pretty similar to what it pays in NZ.

Depends what industry you take your skills to I suppose.

$25 per hour is not out of reach for someone doing sheet metal fab for air conditioning/ducting. But the market is a bit fucked right now. Interior fitout is my game, so if I'm not putting up shit loads of new ceilings and walls, those guys aren't making lots of new ducting for me to hide. Having said that, the earthquakes have sped up buildings being made safer. So things are on the rise.

We have loads of plaster tiled ceilings. All government buildings were fitted out with them because they were the best looking, even though they were unbelievably expensive. But at 10 kilos per tile, and a system that sees them fall out pretty easily people are understandably wanting them biffed. It's against regulations to build them new anymore.

Other metal fab is a smaller market here. Fitter/turners (I know guys that do this and don't call themselves engineers like their qualifications say they are), oportunities don't come up as often or pay as well straight away I don't think. What with kids coming straight out of tech and working for fuck all.

[BoristheBiter]

It's $642.93 a week and if you are in KS it is $620.13
About a first year tradesman's wage

No job should be priced lower because of where you live, downside of employment contracts act.
In fact they should be higher to live in some backwater stuck in the 70's.

[BoristheBiter]

Other metal fab is a smaller market here. Fitter/turners (I know guys that do this and don't call themselves engineers like their qualifications say they are), oportunities don't come up as often or pay as well straight away I don't think. What with kids coming straight out of tech and working for fuck all.

And that is all they are worth until they get the experience and quite a few get chosen because they haven't pick up bad habits and can still be molded into the employee they want.

[Oakie]

Yep; Or unless there are 53 pay-days in the year, or 27 pay-fortnights. Or unless the employee muffs up the taxcode, has other earnings, etc

Struck that last year at my work. 27 pay days in the year so everyone with a student loan finished up having a student loan bill for the year of about $70. Took me ages to work out why. Can't remember now but it was something to do with the annual threshold for payments.

[jasonu]

Depends what industry you take your skills to I suppose.

$25 per hour is not out of reach for someone doing sheet metal fab for air conditioning/ducting. But the market is a bit fucked right now. Interior fitout is my game, so if I'm not putting up shit loads of new ceilings and walls, those guys aren't making lots of new ducting for me to hide. Having said that, the earthquakes have sped up buildings being made safer. So things are on the rise.

We have loads of plaster tiled ceilings. All government buildings were fitted out with them because they were the best looking, even though they were unbelievably expensive. But at 10 kilos per tile, and a system that sees them fall out pretty easily people are understandably wanting them biffed. It's against regulations to build them new anymore.

Other metal fab is a smaller market here. Fitter/turners (I know guys that do this and don't call themselves engineers like their qualifications say they are), oportunities don't come up as often or pay as well straight away I don't think. What with kids coming straight out of tech and working for fuck all.

I work in the aerospace industry for Lancair International www.lancair.com We build carbonfiber experimental (kit) planes at around $1.5mil a pop so not surprisingly we have some pretty big ups and downs. I would have thought anyone working in the construction industry in NZ would be run off their feet with all the work ChCh is providing. From what I have seen and read tradesman are getting hard to find and the ones that are there earn pretty good money.

[HenryDorsetCase]

I am interested in how much take home money $19 per hour gets you in Noo Zulland.

Short answer: FUCK ALL. By comparison I think our last office junior (19 y.o female, finished High School,) helped us out and made the coffee and answered the phones started on over $20 an hour. She has moved on and is now a (brilliant, thanks to my training) legal secretary earning nearly $50k a year.

We have stupidly high living costs in this country, and very low wages/salaries.

I know you are mechanically minded: you might consider coming to Christchurch and working in construction on the rebuild. The worst issue will be your accommodation costs though.