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By Sidders
#41073
As in £/h? Or per year?
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By Sidders
#41075
£10ph?
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By magenta
#41076
What is it you do, remind me?

: )
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By Funky Drummer
#41078
magenta wrote:What is it you do, remind me?

: )


I'm a tech-opp for a certain radio station

10 quid an hour! woo hoo! The average shift (i.e. 1 show) is three/four hours long, so thats 30/40 quid in one shift! If I worked a whole weekend, doing three shows, I could earn 100 quid straight!
Last edited by Funky Drummer on Mon Mar 31, 2003 3:46 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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By Adam
#41079
what the hell are you doing as a job?
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By Sidders
#41081
Right first time! That was a good guess!
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By Gigglyboots
#41083
lol, nice round answer I guess. I wouldn't have said anyway, ;)
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By magenta
#41085
Do you have to pay tax or NI on it?

I've known people who have worked for stuff like £2.50p/h, personally I wouldn't bother!!
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By Adam
#41086
magenta wrote:Do you have to pay tax or NI on it?

I've known people who have worked for stuff like £2.50p/h, personally I wouldn't bother!!


Depends how much he's been earning. he'll have a tax code- which states the amount of money he can earn. for example 486(insert letter) would suggest to someone that i can earn up to 4860£ then after that i would have to pay tax. you have to pay NI when you turn 18.
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By Sidders
#41087
Ad wrote:you have to pay NI when you turn 18.

Yeah, for the pension we're never going to get.
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By magenta
#41094
Well I paid NI on the money I earned in the summer, & I'm not quite 18 yet, so I think there's a flaw there Ad. ;)

What is NI, 10% or something?

I thought tax was when you got over something like 4500k per year, that's disgraceful, & the highest tax bracket is when you get to about 30k, at 45%!! Robbing bastards.

Feel free to correct me.
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By Funky Drummer
#41102
I'm only 17 and still at school, so I don't THINK I have to pay tax on it.

Better bloody not anyway!
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By magenta
#41111
Yeah but it's nothing to do with being at school. If you earned something like £90 per week, then that's about the amount you need to earn to pay tax on it I think? If I'm right with about 4500k that is. Thinking about it, 16 is when you pay NI isn't it, because that's when they send you the card through?
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By magenta
#41114
The new tax brackets for 2002/2003 are as follows:


2002/2003 up to £4,615 tax free
between £4,616 - £6,535 10%
between £6,536 - £34,515 22%
over £34,515 40%

From http://www.rapidrefunds.co.uk/brackets/
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By Jonny Hoare
#41118
My starting wage should i go down the bbc route will be 18k, if i go down the independent route it could be 20k
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By Adam
#41121
Which route would you go down?
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By Jonny Hoare
#41124
Simple. Whoever offers me a job.
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By Nablo.
#41128
My friend works for a media technology company and he gets paid £12.90 an hour. Luckly I get to feel the benefits of it this Christmas :D :P
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By Funky Drummer
#41132
I think I get more as I'm classed as 'Freelance'. It's a standard rate for technical-operators

But I dont really care anyway - a great job that will help me in my future career and it pays me!
Last edited by Funky Drummer on Mon Mar 31, 2003 3:47 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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By Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog
#41170
NI is a strange one because there is an upper limit on how much you can pay. You shouldnt pay tax in a year at all if you earn less than £4615. I just got all my tax back last month because i had been paying it while still under the personal allowance. this month i start paying it again so my wage cheque will be sad...

Gaspode The "hah i may be on crap pay but i got a good pension scheme so when im old an dont need money i'll have it" Wonder Dog
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By jc
#41176
I'm gonna go off and be depressed now. - jc