Shoreham looking for two ATCOs

[chevvron]

coolbeans if you're referring to Biggin then I don't consider it comparable as Biggiin has ILS and handles proportionally far more IFR traffic.
As for Dunsfold:Safeskys Ltd

[coolbeans]

By that argument dunsfold isn't a valid comparison as it has far fewer movements than shoreham.

I'd still consider the salary low for adi/app and ojti, but as 2 sheds says market forces will dictate what happens i suppose.

[hangten]

Like it or not, I have little pity for anyone who earns more than the average

Well, not everyone can earn less than the average, since then it wouldn't be the average. Then you'd hate all the same people again, except that we'd all be much poorer. Unless you're suggesting we should all earn an identical, average, wage? That's communism isn't it? No society in the world ever made the poor richer by making the rich poorer. They just made everyone poor.

Capitalism strives on market forces, and aerodrome control in the UK is subject to market forces. ATCOs are worth what they can demand. If Shoreham can find employees at that rate then they have done well for their business, but in our opinion (if I may summarise the thread) the ATCOs will be receiving less than is considered the 'going rate'.

As an aside, I can't help myself but to be on pedant watch:

Can I please clarify that the word is remuneration and not renumeration. It's from the latin remūnerātus, meaning to repay or reward and is not connected to numerālis, of or belonging to numbers.

[Chilli Monster]

Originally Posted by Soaringhigh650

But the issue remains that European ATC is more expensive than American ATC. US ATC can definitely channel more traffic with less cost.

I currently work in an ACC where 75% of the Staff are ex FAA Controllers. Most have done 25 years in the job, where their earnings would have been higher than their UK counterparts, followed by retiring on full pension, which their UK counterpart will have had to have worked longer to achieve.

Less cost to you personally maybe, but less cost to the Federal government and therefore less cost to you, the taxpayer - definitely not! If you're going to make such rash statements, maybe you should look at the overall picture before mouthing off and making apples v pears comparisons (which you have a propensity to do with amazing regularity as has been pointed out before).

2 Sheds / Coolbeans - greetings from the Sandpit boys

[terrain safe]

Hangten. love the response exactly what I was thinking about! I guess we've found an American communist! The people at Fort Meade must be waiting for Soarings latest missive with baited breath! Somebody really needs to engage brain before touching a keyboard.

[PrimeATC]

are they still looking fot ATCO?

[firebird_uk]

The positions are still listed on the Shoreham Airport website under the link I originally posted - so I guess the answer's yes.