A new GMB analysis of pay by occupation reveals that directors and chief executives of major organisations took home an average annual salary of £214,000, up 714% from a UK average of £29,999 for full time staff.
The union found that brokers on £101,627 or 339% of the UK average are next on the list, followed by financial managers and chartered secretaries on £84,063 and medical practitioners with £78,882.
Senior officers in national government took home an average of £69,404 followed aircraft pilots, who obviously need to afford the leather jackets, Porsche, and Ray-Bans that comes with looking cool.
The lowest paid job in the country (341st position) were waiters and waitresses on £11,303, followed by school midday assistants on £11,439.
And somewhere in the middle, earning around the UK average of £29,999, include storage and warehouse managers, rail construction and maintenance operatives, engineering technicians and researchers.
Moving down the list, a few occupations took me by surprise -
14 Air traffic controllers £51,911
17 Advertising and public relations managers £50,479
24 Broadcasting associate professionals £45,564
38 Architects £40,845
55 Train drivers £37,234
65 Dancers and choreographers £36,294
67 Civil engineers £35,618
79 Journalists, newspaper and periodical editors £33,203
86 Speech and language therapists £32,063
Is it just me or do so many jobs not justify the wages that they pay out. Now I am not about to point fingers, but well down the list at 138 were Nurses who earn £27,234, below Leisure and sports managers at 122 and foot doctors (Chiropodists) at 111.
The closest thing to an HR related title was - Personnel, training and industrial relations managers ranked 13th with an annual salary of 52,732.
