What is a good hourly wage for groom type jobs?

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What do people think they are worth? We pay £240 a week for 30 hours, that's £8 an hour. On top of this we pay fuel expenses, give free days out with pay and pay £30 sleepover if there's ever a need to stay overnight at a competition. All meals and admission charges are paid.

We like to think we treat staff well, theyr'e in our home and deserve to be treated the way we'd like to be treated ourselves. People keep telling me we're too soft but I think employment problems are just rife in modern society.
 
I think that's very good comparing it to other jobs I have been looking at. Can I come and work for you?
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That is on a par with what we pay , it will be interesting to see what happens with grooms over the next few years with the minimum wage etc and people being a bit more savvy about employment rights , paid holidays etc

British Groom association is a good place to start

The days of grooms being treated lake dirt are disappearing thank god Some employers seem to be stuck in the dark ages
 
sounds good to me , alot of grooms on geberal livery yards in my area get minimum wage for there age , & i know yards that actively employ younger people so they can pay the lower 18-21 rate
 
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That sounds pretty good to me, I'd have loved to have been paid that when I woked as a groom
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agree.!! sounds like a very good deal. when i was a groom i think it was more like £5 an hour (about £11K a yr for a 6 day week) and i thought that was well paid.! that was 7yrs ago though so with inflation and all that i guess it might not be that different..
 
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What do people think they are worth? We pay £240 a week for 30 hours, that's £8 an hour. On top of this we pay fuel expenses, give free days out with pay and pay £30 sleepover if there's ever a need to stay overnight at a competition. All meals and admission charges are paid.

We like to think we treat staff well, theyr'e in our home and deserve to be treated the way we'd like to be treated ourselves. People keep telling me we're too soft but I think employment problems are just rife in modern society.

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That sounds like a decent, but not extravagant wage. You do get what you pay for - I am sure your staff appreciate your fairness, and only wish more employers would treat staff as well - then there wouldn't be so many 'Why can't I find/keep staff threads', maybe.
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Thats not bad at all, Id work for that!!

Ive been paid anything from £6.50 an hour (in 2004) to 50p an hour for a 14 hour day....... no chance of making any savings and not enough hours in the day for a second job to earn more.
 
Sounds like a pretty good deal to me....think I'm in the wrong occupation, well I know I am (my job is just a job to me) but I thought a grooms pay was less that that so I've never considered it even though I know I'd love it!
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....I'll come and work for you!
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My daughter (nearly 20) is curently doing some part time holiday work at a riding school. The pay is absolutely c**p. She is paid £25 for a 7 hour day (which is nearer 8 cos the jobs are never done when she is due to leave). I have told her she would get more if she did less hours at Tescos, but she says she enjoys it and it is not really like work
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I nagged her to mention the words minimum wage to the owner, and their reply was they couldn't afford that, that is why they only had staff on a casual basis. They are struggling to get full time staff, I wonder why!
 
I'll come clean and say that the 'groom type job' with us isn't strictly a grooms job. It's paying someone to support my daughter ( she's disabled ) so she can enjoy her horses and a bit of a social life.

It's a cushy number really. There's no personal care involved and only two horses to help her look after and get ready to ride. It does not mean doing things for her. Once she's on board it means keeping a watchful eye, just in case, but letting her get on with things and treating her with respect because she really, and I mean really as in at least medium level dressage type schooling, knows what she's doing.

The rest of the time is for social activities, going shopping, day trips, short breaks, eating out, that sort of thing, basically being a best friend and getting paid for it plus expenses.

So not really the hard slog of a big yard and lots of horses even. I think many of our staff problems stem from the fact that it's so friendly and relaxed that people forget it is a formal job. What do people think about being paid £8 an hour to help with two horses and have a good time?
 
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