Absolutely, it’s not a huge amount...and rent is a large proportion (though not unmanageable) but, as an entry level job, that’s £1,560 a month net, with 25 hours at £9.50 giving a further £1,000 a month net and £750 Universal Credit taking you to £3,310 a month net. That’s the equivalent of a single earner on around £52k (all assuming a 5% pensions contribution admittedly)
You might have to look outside Chichester, but you could comfortable rent a nice 3 bed house in somewhere like Littlehampton or Bognor Regis for between £1,000 and £1,400... so not a million miles from what I was told when I started work which was spend a third of your salary on your house, a third on living and save a third! And that’s in the south. Now, I imagine Amazon pay less in cheaper areas...but then housing will be less as well.
Armada Way, Littlehampton
www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-86341753.html
Wenban Road, BN11
www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-86498980.html
But these jobs aren’t, on the whole, filled by people with family responsibilities. It’s mainly Eastern European migrant workers. And they’d have worked out in 2 minutes flat that you’re better off doing your 160 hours / 4 weeks in 3 53 hour weeks and then run a second job in the other week ;)
Dump the second income, share that 3 bed house with two others and your rent is £3/400 a month...same proportion of total income as the family. But for whatever reason the economically disadvantaged in other parts of England don’t want / won’t move for these jobs. I don’t know about you, but a house share when starting out was the norm, and certainly still is among professionals in London and other cities, so I’m at a loss to explain how we encourage people to move to where the jobs are. You’re broadly never more mobile than when young surely?
Last edited by: PeterS on Tue 10 Nov 20 at 21:18
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