• Question: How much do you earn on a monthly basis?

    Asked by rhys1998 to Alex, Chris, Harriet, Jed, Ken on 13 Mar 2012. This question was also asked by lauraabc11, smiley14.
    • Photo: Alexander Zacheshigriva

      Alexander Zacheshigriva answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      I don’t really want to state my pay on the internet. But I have answered a similar question about pay, you can see it following the link (or have a look in the questions list):
      http://bit.ly/xIRLY6

      These are not statistical data but rather what I see and hear people earn.

    • Photo: Ken Gibbs

      Ken Gibbs answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      @rhys1998: It’s highly variable and depends on whom I am working for at the time. An example: When I worked for UNICEF in South Africa in 2009, I was asked to stay for 3 months. Because of the UN Rules and Regulations, I was only allowed to get a “salary” for two months (at US$ 10,000 per month), and the third month, I was paid US$ 1 (yes, that means one US dollar) making me effectively a volunteer. I had to be paid US$ 1 to ensure that I was covered by insurance for that month !

      When last I worked for MSF (Medecins sans Frontieres), I was paid US$ 800 per month (eight hundred dollars per MONTH). So, from this I hope you can see that money isn’t the most important feature of the job.

    • Photo: Jed Ramsay

      Jed Ramsay answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      When I first started my career my pay was about £18,000 a year. 10 years later I’ve almost doubled that as I’ve been promoted.

      I work in the public sector (for government) and I think my pay is around the average for a water engineer – maybe a little less than what I could earn if I worked for a private company. But the other good things about the public sector are I get a lot of holiday, flextime (which means I can vary what time I start and finish my day) and a car also comes with my job (although I pay a bit towards this each month).

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