Originally Posted by
Bob Viking
You suggest that 18 year old DEs have poorer promotion prospects. This is not quite true. You will of course soak up 6 years of initially poor wages (a good thing in the eyes of the bean counters) but your overall promotion chances are potentially better, not worse.
BV, I share your view but your post suggests graduates and non-graduates get paid different rates for doing the same job; this is no longer the case and it does not take particularly long for aircrew to hit flt lt pay - just 2.5 years from IOT. Once your 18 year old joiner finishes his OCU at age 21 he will be a flt lt earning £43k.
Quite a change from my day!