What's a Coastguard worth?
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fireball
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Re: What\'s a Coastguard worth?
less than £12k?! No wonder Solent get pretty annoyed at all the "Radio Check Please" calls from ppl spending £12k on their boats each year! (ok I just made that bit up /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif)
less than £12k?! No wonder Solent get pretty annoyed at all the "Radio Check Please" calls from ppl spending £12k on their boats each year! (ok I just made that bit up /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif)
Genie
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Re: What\'s a Coastguard worth?
Crikey!
12k a year - doesn't seem much considering the level of responsibility they have on their heads and competency expected of them.
I just hope it gets significantly better with service and promotion.
Must be a vocation like teaching/nursing rather than a career for financial reward.
They should get more IMHO.
Rob
Crikey!
12k a year - doesn't seem much considering the level of responsibility they have on their heads and competency expected of them.
I just hope it gets significantly better with service and promotion.
Must be a vocation like teaching/nursing rather than a career for financial reward.
They should get more IMHO.
Rob
Sans Bateau
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Re: What\'s a Coastguard worth?
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calls from ppl spending £12k on their boats each year! (ok I just made that bit up )
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That could be not far from true.
The MCA employs about 1,165 staff, supported by more than 3,250 volunteer coastguards.
So 1165 x £12k = £13980000. divided by employed and volunteers, thats £3166 per year per person!
mmm Dont reckon the MCA will outsource to India, they'd never get labour as cheap as that!
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calls from ppl spending £12k on their boats each year! (ok I just made that bit up )
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That could be not far from true.
The MCA employs about 1,165 staff, supported by more than 3,250 volunteer coastguards.
So 1165 x £12k = £13980000. divided by employed and volunteers, thats £3166 per year per person!
mmm Dont reckon the MCA will outsource to India, they'd never get labour as cheap as that!
Re: What\'s a Coastguard worth?
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Must be a vocation like teaching/nursing rather than a career for financial reward.
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This is not a complete explanation. A newly qualified staff nurse gets 50% more, junior teachers and junior social workers earn 65% to 70% more and a 22 year old police constable just entering service would gets double that entry coastguard salary.
It must be an historical overhang from the days when a coastguard officer sat in a hut on top of a Cornish cliff, puffing a pipe and looking out to sea occasionally.
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Must be a vocation like teaching/nursing rather than a career for financial reward.
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This is not a complete explanation. A newly qualified staff nurse gets 50% more, junior teachers and junior social workers earn 65% to 70% more and a 22 year old police constable just entering service would gets double that entry coastguard salary.
It must be an historical overhang from the days when a coastguard officer sat in a hut on top of a Cornish cliff, puffing a pipe and looking out to sea occasionally.
alldownwind
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Re: What\'s a Coastguard worth?
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..........It must be an historical overhang from the days when a coastguard officer sat in a hut on top of a Cornish cliff, puffing a pipe and looking out to sea occasionally.
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Let's be clear that this salary applies to the full-timers who sit in the MRCCs answering radio checks. It's amazing that they get any recruits at all.
The part-timers who turn out and actually do the rescuing (like me) get minimum wage for each shout we attend.
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..........It must be an historical overhang from the days when a coastguard officer sat in a hut on top of a Cornish cliff, puffing a pipe and looking out to sea occasionally.
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Let's be clear that this salary applies to the full-timers who sit in the MRCCs answering radio checks. It's amazing that they get any recruits at all.
The part-timers who turn out and actually do the rescuing (like me) get minimum wage for each shout we attend.
Andrew_Fanner
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Re: What\'s a Coastguard worth?
More than a politician.
More than a politician.
Re: What\'s a Coastguard worth?
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Let's be clear that this salary applies to the full-timers who sit in the MRCCs
[/ QUOTE ]Indeed and I think the salary scales are an insult to the job performed, I said something similar here about 3 years ago when a CG officer first highlighted the awful salaries on this forum.
The pay rate seems so strange for the job role I was trying to view the situation as an unreasonable historical accident.
The union leadership should present their members as the maritime tripwire in the war against terrorism, then Gordon Brown might find some spare cash.
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Let's be clear that this salary applies to the full-timers who sit in the MRCCs
[/ QUOTE ]Indeed and I think the salary scales are an insult to the job performed, I said something similar here about 3 years ago when a CG officer first highlighted the awful salaries on this forum.
The pay rate seems so strange for the job role I was trying to view the situation as an unreasonable historical accident.
The union leadership should present their members as the maritime tripwire in the war against terrorism, then Gordon Brown might find some spare cash.
Rowana
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Re: What\'s a Coastguard worth?
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More than a politician.
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And that's the square root of feck all ! ! !
Should we all write to our MP's??
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More than a politician.
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And that's the square root of feck all ! ! !
Should we all write to our MP's??
ShipsWoofy
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Re: What\'s a Coastguard worth?
What's a Coastguard worth?
About 7 PE teachers at current exchange rate I think.
Or 9 Home Ec. biddies
On the other hand, if you start saving, for 3 coastguards you could swap for a hospital orderly.
What's a Coastguard worth?
About 7 PE teachers at current exchange rate I think.
Or 9 Home Ec. biddies
On the other hand, if you start saving, for 3 coastguards you could swap for a hospital orderly.
2Tizwoz
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Re: What\'s a Coastguard worth?
From the MCA accounts the Staff costs are £39,524,000 for 2005-06 .
Between 1165 staff this appears to be £33,926 per annum average.
Do they all work full time?
Of course it isn't all distributed equally the Prime Minister decides Civil Service pay and their public service pensions
What does volunteer mean?
From the MCA accounts the Staff costs are £39,524,000 for 2005-06 .
Between 1165 staff this appears to be £33,926 per annum average.
Do they all work full time?
Of course it isn't all distributed equally the Prime Minister decides Civil Service pay and their public service pensions
What does volunteer mean?
Slow_boat
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Re: What\'s a Coastguard worth?
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Of course it isn't all distributed equally the Prime Minister decides Civil Service pay and their public service pensions
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Which is why they charge more and more in taxes and expect more and more from less and less public sector employees for less and less pay.
Still, they're all the same so there's no point in moaning.
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Of course it isn't all distributed equally the Prime Minister decides Civil Service pay and their public service pensions
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Which is why they charge more and more in taxes and expect more and more from less and less public sector employees for less and less pay.
Still, they're all the same so there's no point in moaning.
jac
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Re: What\'s a Coastguard worth?
I quickly googled Coatsguard pay scales and got this.
Coastguard Pay Scales (Scotland)
Reading the article it says that the Watch Officers are the ones monitoring Ch 16
Watch Officers earn £14183 - £18349 + 25% shift premium so a shade under £23k for someone with a minimum of 3 years S&R experience.
I think we need to sack 2 or 3 of them so we can have some smoking cessation supremo so that we can all be really safe. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif
I quickly googled Coatsguard pay scales and got this.
Coastguard Pay Scales (Scotland)
Reading the article it says that the Watch Officers are the ones monitoring Ch 16
Watch Officers earn £14183 - £18349 + 25% shift premium so a shade under £23k for someone with a minimum of 3 years S&R experience.
I think we need to sack 2 or 3 of them so we can have some smoking cessation supremo so that we can all be really safe. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif
alldownwind
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Re: What\'s a Coastguard worth?
Yes but quite a few of the staff at MRCC's are not Coastguard Watch Officers, they are CWAs (Coastguard Watch Assistants) whose pay scales are even more miserable ......£11,735 - £14,133 plus shift allowance (this is from the same info source), that starting rate is national minimum wage, is it not. Hardly encouraging to youngsters starting out.
Yes but quite a few of the staff at MRCC's are not Coastguard Watch Officers, they are CWAs (Coastguard Watch Assistants) whose pay scales are even more miserable ......£11,735 - £14,133 plus shift allowance (this is from the same info source), that starting rate is national minimum wage, is it not. Hardly encouraging to youngsters starting out.