From a PR email:
Hi Tim
Breakroom can reveal that some workers for the Royal Family are being paid £1.93 less than the national living wage (£9.50).
The people-powered job platform has compared the average frontline pay for 1,000s of UK companies and comparing it against this current job opening staff can expect to earn more money working in certain supermarkets, courier positions and for the Royal Mail than working for the Queen.Breakroom’s data shows that Royal Mail pays its workers 38 per cent more than a royal housekeeping assistant role – which has an advertised pay of just £7.97 per hour.
Amazon, Aldi and the NHS also pay their workers at least 28 per cent more than the Palace.
Working an eight-hour shift at Aldi would leave workers £21 better off than if they worked for the 96-year-old monarch.
The figures also reveal that Network Rail pay their workers an average of £19.62 per hour – £11.65 more than the Queen pays her housekeepers.
Royal Household work comes with meals and accommodation thrown in……be worth having a look tomorrow to see who picks this shite up.
Twats.
And when you retire, you can sell stories to the press. Prince Andrew’s valet is, allegedly, looking at property in Mayfair.
I thought everybody knew that royals pay lousy money.
A bog standard palace-sweeping job plus accommodation sounds better than a similar role at Aldi.
In any case, we know the sort of cunts who send out press releases like this. The numbers will be bollocks. Like will never be compared with like. Just some shameless PR oxygen thieves latching on to the Jubilee of our Liz.
I suspect lots of publications will pick it up for their online editions. Lots of webspace to fill with barely rehashed press releases.
Presumably the valet is lokking at a couple of hotels? That’s the way to make money in Mayfair.
So? I’m being paid £9.50 less than the national living wage.
Who will pick it up tomorrow? Churnalists churning out press releases to fill websites/newsprint without doing any checking themselves.
In 1981 I worked for a summer season in the garage at Butlins Filey. The pay there was about half what I would be able to earn elsewhere but accomodation and food was included so I effectively had no living expenses.