30th April 2007, 02:45 PM
Well, we could start off with a wage that eeither gives the basic digger a salary that gets him/her to at least the poverty threshold or aim for the median as mentioned above, of £21,000. Given that there are abbout 220 working days in a year (taking off weekends, bank holidays, some holiday time and the like) then costing out diggers at £100 per day, plus the income tax and NI costs to the employee a digger would cost around £130 plus unit overheads (so probably around £200 per day (correct me if this is b*ll*cks, its a long time since I had to cost fieldwork in any way shape or form).
supervisors, POs etc commensurately more.
supervisors, POs etc commensurately more.