how much does a train op earn?

Not as much as a Journalist on the ES I would imagine.

Bob Crow said a few years ago, they should get 90k per year, based on the contribution they make to the economy.

Err...........about 37 now I think.

A newly qualified T/op earns as much as a teacher with 10 years' experience....

Yikes, me too. It’s a job I would love to do but living outside London and my current circumstances mean it would be difficult to take the plunge… at least at the moment .

That’s reassuring. I have a few personal reasons for not going anywhere right at the moment but when things change I’ll be giving it a go.

Dont forget you wil have to start on the station side first, do a year as a Station assistant, that should put you in good stead for T/op.

Looking at your location Peter, a lot of people based in Kent work on the Waterloo and London Bridge groups, travelling into London Bridge and Waterloo East. I know several people who live in the Medway Towns who travel in every day.

Do they commute every day or stay over?

And the fact that they have even more Annual Leave than we do..... and that's saying something! ;D ;D

Yeah guaranteed holidays at Christmas, Easter and in the summer. Also every weekend off, it cant be that bad really!

But the train op is responsible for the safety of , at times, 1000+ people.



Fine. When i have 7 days on i stop down here at my parents.

I did not intend to start the 'teachers have it easy (not)' debate, but, on a point of order, despite the long breaks, teachers can only go away (by definition) in school holidays. So every time away is at full (inflated) travel agent price. Not easy for a teacher with a few kids of their own.

And one more fact: a large independent survey (set up by Gov't to prove teachers are lazy) found the average teacher works just over 50 hours a week. 25% more hours than the average worker (no overtime paid), which actually more than cancels out the extra holidays*. Unsurprisingly the gov't chose to ignore the survey and offered imposed on teachers a pay rise of half the current rate of inflation, saying it was a 'great deal for the education system'. Oh and to be fair, they did exactly the same to nurses

Not a shock then that I was one of the many that got out some years ago once I saw what was coming.........

*25% extra means the equivalent of one week extra in every four. School terms amount to 9 months of the year, so that's 9 weeks 'extra' per year. Which brings the teachers' holidays down to 4 weeks (20 days) but that includes the 9 days of public holidays. So they lose every way you look at it.

see that i understand, but why do receptionists, switchboard ops get paid like £9 an hour when all they do is sit on thier butts when the likes of me run round like a maniac and only earn £5.44!?

im a sales assistant, also a junior supervisor,

just before i joined lu i worked at a timber yard which also sold building materials, obviously this involved quite a bit of specialist knowledge which the company expected me to acquire MYSELF, they had me multitasking with dealing with contract orders and running the shop all for the princely sum of £4.50 5 years back, going back to my first job ever was at burger king at heathrow tidying the tables for £3.14 , lets just say my earnings(and self esteem) have come along leaps and bounds! dstock i feel for anyone in retail i've been there and done it before and it certainly is a rubbish gig.