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Just wondering because I saw a job posting for an electrician at the US embassy that's paying around 24,000 pounds a year (I think thats right, pounds). Thought about applying, but only if that would be able to support a wife and kid over there. I'm just exploring my options and a change of scenery wouldn't be a bad thing. Thanks in advance.

ramses wrote:Just wondering because I saw a job posting for an electrician at the US embassy that's paying around 24,000 pounds a year (I think thats right, pounds). Thought about applying, but only if that would be able to support a wife and kid over there. I'm just exploring my options and a change of scenery wouldn't be a bad thing. Thanks in advance.

Where is the job located m8?

I have to apply through the U.S. embassy website. It's somewhere in the U.K. thats all I know at this point.

ramses wrote:I have to apply through the U.S. embassy website. It's somewhere in the U.K. thats all I know at this point.

In that case m8 for the UK currently thats ok (Jobs are getting thin). I am a spark as a trade but work for me has slowly deteriated to the point where it is non existent. I was working on mainly new build propertys (Self employed) so was earning alot more than that. But for an in-house electrician which i pressume this will be, that wage is about right.
Thats around £2000 a month so i dont know how they Tax and Ni (national insurance)foreign workers (SOME! might on here) but i would expect to take £1450-£1600 a month of that home.
Does that come with accomadation? Coz if its in London its no a cheap place to live (IMO).
But hey just think of the cash you will save on your flights to the Dam. Some of the prices you U.S guys have to pay for your flight is crazy.
I would say go for it if you are out of work coz any job is better than none and it is probably more secure than most U.K Jobs (COZ ITS FOR THE U.S embassy).Oh and bring some warm clothes coz the weather here is rarely any good including the summer (IF WE GET ONE THIS YEAR ).
Hope i have helped.

This is what we have to do to get a low paid job in the U.K currently

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/870 ... -thousands

Yeah people are lining up like cattle around here too for shit jobs. I just went to apply for that job at the embassy and I missed the cut off date for application. Oh well. I've currently applied for like 5 federal jobs as an electrician but it takes weeks to find out if your even selected, then you have to take physicals and shit like that. One I applied for was working for fish and wildlife as a maintenance worker at kilauea national park in Hawaii. How cool would that be! Thanks for the info anyway Kermit.

ramses wrote:One I applied for was working for fish and wildlife as a maintenance worker at kilauea national park in Hawaii. How cool would that be!

Better than the UK m8!

Kermit wrote:

ramses wrote:One I applied for was working for fish and wildlife as a maintenance worker at kilauea national park in Hawaii. How cool would that be!

Better than the UK m8!

I bet they dont have black pudding over there.............

Very much depends on the location - it's an awesome wage say for Dundee, not so good for london.

^^Not for a spark. If you are a electrician and you get less than 24K some1 is taking the piss no matter what part of the U.K your in.(IMO)
in-house sparks would normally get this wage coz at the end of the day the hardest thing you will do is change a light bulb.

Is that how it is for in house sparkys over there? Over hear going through the construction ranks, (I'm industrial) we work to get an inhouse job. Not everyone will admit it, but it's true. For one, your right, they don't do a damn thing and two, you know where the hell your going to work from week to week, year to year. Traveling all over and bouncing from site to site can get old. Pay is usually pretty good if you get in somewhere good, usually anywhere from 55k to 70k a year, some with VERY good benefits. I live close to Warsaw, IN and they have a lot of orthopedic companys-Biomet, medtronic, symmetry medical and Zimmers world headquarters. Zimmer owns over twenty buildings in that town! Those are all good places to get your foot in the door around here.

ramses wrote:Is that how it is for in house sparkys over there? Over hear going through the construction ranks, (I'm industrial) we work to get an inhouse job. Not everyone will admit it, but it's true. For one, your right, they don't do a damn thing and two, you know where the hell your going to work from week to week, year to year. Traveling all over and bouncing from site to site can get old. Pay is usually pretty good if you get in somewhere good, usually anywhere from 55k to 70k a year, some with VERY good benefits. I live close to Warsaw, IN and they have a lot of orthopedic companys-Biomet, medtronic, symmetry medical and Zimmers world headquarters. Zimmer owns over twenty buildings in that town! Those are all good places to get your foot in the door around here.

Yes m8 in-house are quite easy to come by (MOST PLACES NEED ONE) therefor pay alot less than people who travel to different sites. Of course you get all the benefits that all the other workers get in the Factory or offices you are working in (paid holidays,pension (MAYBE) and susidised staff canteen IF YOUR LUCKY) and JOB SECURITY .But because the electrical installation is complete the most you are likely to do is change a bulb/tube. If the company you work for need any major work they will pull in outside contractors (Like myself) who work with the in-house electrician to get the job done.
So they are normally just maintaining whats already installed and are normally noobs to the trade or ready for a body bag

£24k will give you a net monthly income of £1,530.63.

http://listentotaxman.com has a calculator showing the deductions etc.

Ash333 wrote:£24k will give you a net monthly income of £1,530.63.

http://listentotaxman.com has a calculator showing the deductions etc.

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Unless you're a foreign citizen, and then residency rules kick in. It gets messy if you have an income in your own country as well.

Ash333 wrote:£24k will give you a net monthly income of £1,530.63.

http://listentotaxman.com has a calculator showing the deductions etc.

i had a good guess then

Sir Niall of Essex-sire wrote:

Kermit wrote:

ramses wrote:One I applied for was working for fish and wildlife as a maintenance worker at kilauea national park in Hawaii. How cool would that be!

Better than the UK m8!

I bet they dont have black pudding over there.............

LMAO! Brilliant.

I'm sure you could get black pudding via Air-mail. hehe.