Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: jeff evans on August 21, 2006, 05:28:51 pm
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Hi all the INEPENDENT PAPER has a list of most jobs, from top executives to street traders.
Window cleaners earn on average earn £18,304 pounds per annum, we are ranked 249 out of 297 trades and other jobs,if you look at the list we earn marginally more than window manufacturers & glazers.
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Jeff
Is it possible to take a picture of the full list.
Thanks
Dave
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Dave will try but not sure you will be able to read it.
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Do it in 2 halves
Dave
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DAVE
Here you are
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The wages quoted are employees rates.
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thanks i can read it if i zoom the page, it makes quite interesting reading
Dave
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I think the average self employed window cleaner is on £18'000 too.
You notice i said AVERAGE
Dave
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Yes dave i think your about right with that figure.
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Bet the 'average' £18000 pa window cleaner doesn't work a week of 40 hours and above ;D
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More like 04 ;D ;D ;D
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I think most of us, looking at that, make at least the top 35 ;D
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only TWO place below a sercurity gaurd
about right in the social placings aswell ::) ::) ::)
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Window cleaners earn on average earn £18,304 pounds per annum
Ha ha.
Lets let everyone keep thinking that and the market will never be saturated with too many window cleaners. ;)
Andy
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I came in at 300 ;D
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Is the average quoted, mean, mode or median or some other way
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Statistical information like this is always rubbish.
Who was it who said, 'There are lies, there are dammed lies, and there are statistics'?
I once had to go through a years worth of the RUC daily incident reports and compile a list of terrorist weapons and munition finds; by weapon and ammunition type.
My briefing was, 'It has to be as accurate as possible, since this information is for the highest levels of government' (possibly as an indicator on how we're doing defeating terrorism; or something).
Anyway, what a load of rollocks was my eventual report.
In the end it was pure guess work. Some of the information I had to wade through had accurate finding reports, i.e 500 rounds of 5.62 ammunition.
Other reports just said a small or large 'quantity' of ammunition.
But my Masters wanted numbers, so I guessed a small quantity was 100 or so, and a large quantity was 500 or so. In reality a small quantity could've been 20 rounds and a large quantity could've been 10,000! Who knows?
My point is, don't believe what you read in the papers.
At the end of the day, some organisation has been paid for compiling what amounts to be nothing more than a 'hearsay' story amounting to an interesting read.
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Hi there,
Just looking at the replies to Guardian's figures, people seem dismissive of the figure almost to the point of taking offense. I mean, as someone relatively new to the business, and from what i've experienced, surely there's a pretty definite cap on what a self-employed window cleaner, working alone, can earn. I'm just interested about views on what you think that figure is. Like i say, from my experience, i'd say your average guy couldn't earn more than £30-35,000 a year without taking on employees. Does that sound about right?
Cheers, Matt
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I think most of us, looking at that, make at least the top 35 ;D
Which is between £35-40,000.
Yeah alright. ;D ::)