NZ Pay rates.
Stuff: Aussies launch jobs raid on NZ
Most interesting to note from this article. "Of those new positions, about 3000 will be in the Australian capital Canberra where statistics reveal average pay rates are more than 50 per cent higher than in Wellington."
One of the things I find hardest to swallow in NZ, particularly now under Labour, is the assertion that because we have low pay rates we need to administer welfare. Surely the whole principal of WFF only serves to show that people are not paid enough in this country. How can a Govt defend paying a teacher, police person or a nurse so little that it is insufficient to raise a family. Which by administering WFF to these same people it is surely trying to do.
Now Canberra is a Govt town. Its bars and cafes wax and wane to the beat of the Govt pay cycle. If pay rates are 50% higher in Canberra then its a reasonable assumption that Govt pay rates are about 50% higher in the same jobs in Canberra compared to Wellington.
Most interesting to note from this article. "Of those new positions, about 3000 will be in the Australian capital Canberra where statistics reveal average pay rates are more than 50 per cent higher than in Wellington."
One of the things I find hardest to swallow in NZ, particularly now under Labour, is the assertion that because we have low pay rates we need to administer welfare. Surely the whole principal of WFF only serves to show that people are not paid enough in this country. How can a Govt defend paying a teacher, police person or a nurse so little that it is insufficient to raise a family. Which by administering WFF to these same people it is surely trying to do.
Now Canberra is a Govt town. Its bars and cafes wax and wane to the beat of the Govt pay cycle. If pay rates are 50% higher in Canberra then its a reasonable assumption that Govt pay rates are about 50% higher in the same jobs in Canberra compared to Wellington.
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