heating engineer wages

[plumb_know]

Hi Everyone,

we are trying to hire good heating engineers and just wondering what gas safe engineers in the south east are expecting to be paid. our position is PAYE with pension scheme offered, van, uniform, tablet etc provided. monday to friday 7:30am-5pm (obviously this is plumbing so times are not set in stone)

i was expecting to pay around 40k,

would like to know whether people on here think this is reasonable

thanks

 

[mfgs]

£40k a year used to be a good wage. We have been advertising at that sort of money and got very little interest. Lots of work out there and seemingly not enough gas engineers has driven up wages significantly over the past 18 months.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Problem is pims don’t help saying you can easily earn 100k 150k with ot

 

[plumb_know]

Yes thats what i am finding at the moment and heard other small companies saying the same, people want silly money at the moment. can see another recession coming along shortly house prices going silly again.

and the people i do get to interview are well below par, cant see who is paying them to be honest

 

[mfgs]

Bigger companies where they can hide away and not be found out to be too useless. I genuinely think to attract anyone decent you need to be offering £45-50k a year. The problem is, it’s then difficult to make them profitable for the business. Add employers NI, van, insurance, pension, paid holidays etc etc. I don’t really know what the answer is.

 

[plumb_know]

Thanks everyone, i will do the numbers and see what i can do might be time to increase our rates again everything else seems to be going up

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Thanks everyone, i will do the numbers and see what i can do might be time to increase our rates again everything else seems to be going up

From jan ours are going up they have too

 

[plumb_know]

were based in kent and ours are £65 plus vat

 

[mfgs]

Thanks everyone, i will do the numbers and see what i can do might be time to increase our rates again everything else seems to be going up

Everything is getting more expensive. I’ve just given pay rises to my staff as I don’t want them to fall behind what’s available elsewhere, also the cost of living is getting more expensive. I have had to put prices up to cover it. No complaints so far from any customers.