Originally Posted by
Safety_Helmut
This is a joke, right ?
S_H
No. See below.
Originally Posted by
Kitbag
Wannabe
The enormous additional benefits you mention, care to educate me?
Certainly.
1. Armed Forces Pension - widely acknowledged to be the best available to anyone in the UK. Worth about 10% of your monthly wage, as we don't pay any contributions (standfast those in receipt of specialist pay who can make AVCs). Index linked and not based on a fund - so you cannot lose it.
2. Free medical and dental. Worth, depending on your age, somewhere between £40 and £100 a month.
3. Free travel to get you home as well as enormous discount on rail and coach travel for your whole family.
4. Interest free loans to put a deposit on a home.
5. Massively discounted, maintained family quarters.
6. Tax free bonuses for retention and now for Op Tours (ok I can see that not everyone will be delighted about claiming the latter).
7. Annual pay rises in line with inflation (I wonder how many private sector organisations do this? Just about none...).
8. Generous relocation packages.
9. Boarding School Allowance (just ask anyone who gets it how much this is worth - its loads).
10. Enormous help, on company time, to get qualifications above and beyond degree level.
11. Free use of gym and pool for the majority of people - worth anywhere between £40 and £100 a month.
12. Annual pay review board which takes into account factors of service life and almost always recommends a raise.
Originally Posted by
enginesuck
Hi yes here me me me me
Propulsion/Airframe technician, 9.5 years experience on 25k a year. Ive had a job offer for nearly double that doing very much the same as I am now. Without getting mortared, doing gate guard and endless deployments.
What do you think I should do ??
If thats the case, I'd leave and take the job offer! You were a volunteer right?
People are only worth what someone is prepared to pay them and it sounds like the RAF are undervaluing you. On the surface, seems a simple decision to me. Or you could get yourself promoted I suppose, if that's a possibility for you.
Thought of some more:
13. Enormous opportunity to carry out PAID adventurous training, around the world, entirely at your employer's expense.
14. Continuous pay, even when sick.
15. 30 days paid leave per year + 6 bank holidays. In civvy street, you're lucky to get 20.
16. PLUS post operational tour leave which is granted after you have effectively done what you are trained for.
17. The most generous resettlement opportunities I have ever heard of.
18. Time in your working week to enable you to keep physically fit.
I could go on....