Dear all
I have been watching this debate with interest, as someone who has
recently submitted their application for chartership. Also as someone
married to an accountant. When my husband started his trainee accountant
post he was earning £13,500, in 1998. In 1999 his firm re-evaluated
salaries and he was automatically earning £18,000. When he passed his
first year exams he was automatically put up to £20,000, when the second
year exams finished he was on £22,000 and upon qualifying (3 yr training
period) his salary rose to £30,000, this has continued to rise as he has
progressed throughout his career. This is very common within the
accountancy profession as I'm sure some of us will realise. There is no
question of a CCAB qualified accountant working for less that the
qualified salary, which does range between firms and bodies, however this
is still above £27,000 for qualified staff... This is the same for
chartered Health and Safety execs, engineers etc... all who take part in
professional development, as we do.
I thoroughly agree with Frances, there has to be a benchmark which brings
us in at a level, I have recently left a health post to take up a post
within a school I actually took a wage cut because my circumstances were
changing, although in the long term with incremental rises I will be in a
more prosperous position. My old post was recently advertised, not on
cilip but on S1JOBS (it was cheaper for my employer) at £16k which was
considerably less than what I was on, I just feel for the successful
candidate, who no doubt had NO CHOICE! However these jobs are still
advertised whether through CILIP or not, and if many fellow professionals
are not renewing their subscriptions as a result of this, what about the
other press / websites who advertised these posts? The whole has to be
looked at rather than the part.
Many thanks for allowing me to rant!
Best wishes
Joanne
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