Greebson seems to be the only one with a grip on reality.
Dumbo - do you know what they pay ATSAs at airports outside NATS ? Have a guess.
Hint - If you guess over £10k you're wrong.
Now compare that to the huge wages paid in the London Area. If I were you I'd keep my head down, mouth shut and save like **** cos' the accountants have obviously sussed the ATSAs costs out. It probably costs about £60-80k to employ one ATSA (salary times 2 for adminny costs). You could buy a lot of off the shelf computers for that money.
You're on a good deal, but the numbers up - fact of life I'm afraid. Don't blame the controllers for that or for pointing it out.
And where that fits in with ATCO wages is irrelevant. However, ATCOs look like they've just had the **** taken out of them and for being such pansies deserve all the shafting they're now going to get.
Must dash - early schedules tomorrow.