tesco wage bands

monkey8

Does anyone know what a personnel manager, duty manager, store vice manager and store manager earns in Tescos?
Are they set wage bands or can they vary and how often do they get pay rises (if at all)?

monkey8

Anyone?

ninebeanrows

BAND E 8.65
BAND D 9.47
BAND C 10.85
BAND B 13.50
BAND A 15.20

MAN 1 17.50
MAN 2 21.50
SUP 1 23.50
SUP X 29.00


THIS MIGHT BE A LIE

Procrastastudy

Store managers could earn towards the €100k mark. That was back in the day though. I suspect new entrants command lower salaries these days.

Yet people often dismiss retail management as a career despite the fact that it can be very well paid, and are almost obsessed about getting in to accounting or banking and the like, from looking at my daughter it seems to suit people who don't like siting down and being confined to one area all day.

Procrastastudy

mariaalice wrote: »

Yet people often dismiss retail management as a career despite the fact that it can be very well paid, and are almost obsessed about getting in to accounting or banking and the like, from looking at my daughter it seems to suit people who don't like siting down and being confined to one area all day.

Ah so many years ago I remember the conversation well when I was talking to my boss about retail management. To break it down;

Positives;

Well paid
No real qualification needed
Not overly complicated

Negatives;
Boring
Staff can be donkey bonnets
Customers ARE donkey bonnets
Holidays can't be taken when everyone else takes theirs.
High divorce rate as there is a lack of family time
(Holidays + expectation to work weekends and evenings)
Hours can be exceptionally long at certain periods of the year

My biggest bug bear with retail is that you work with so many stupid people both inside and outside of the organisation. The biggest expense for any retail business is the wage bill - so that's always the first thing to get cut - and it gets cut at store level. So you end up trying to get 5 people to do 10 peoples work. There is also the issue that any retail manager is only ever as good as their last stock take and set of sales figures.

Another massive annoyance for me was the pointless erosion of public holidays. Xmas now for retail managers is 24 hours if you're lucky. Ireland used to close St Stephens day but now because of places like Debenhams thats gone. It's an absolute waste - no one spends any more money, they just spend it a day earlier.

Bear in mind at least once a week, probably more you'll be verbally abused by a customer. I'd like to say it's be some knacker but it hardly ever is. It's normally a middle class house-wife from Wicklow or Dundrum who hasn't got her way - its frankly shocking how some people behave.

EDIT: Bear in mind a Supermarket or Department Store manager would be 0.1% of the retail employment roll. Most are paid much, MUCH less. 40K a year would be excellent by most standards with managers on 20K not uncommon.

danthefan

Good post above there, and the customer abuse thing is so true. I worked in retail for about 8 years and it seemed there were some people who once they stepped over the threshold of the shop door just turned into ignorant, aggressive arseholes who don't seem to realise a shop is a business. One incident with me in particular was a guy who I gave his change to, he put it in the wrong pocket, couldn't find it, and went absolutely ballistic, started demanding money from the till, etc. Eventually found his money and wouldn't even apologise properly. You have to be willing and able to deal with that sort of nonsense.

I do not know what my daughter might do she might not go in to retail management at all, she might go back to college and do something completely different.

I have had a few different conversations about work with people recently.
Every job has its advantages and disadvantages, I will have to work a 12 hour shift on Christmas day and on Christmas eve thats just the luck of the draw I don't moan about it, my other daughter is a nurse can you imagine what it is like to have to deal with body fluids, sick people and their relatives on a daily basis no careerer or job is perfect, yet the amount of people I come across with a grass is greener somewhere else mentality is amazing.

The retail job my daughter has is her first real job, her team leader is Indian and has a hard work, dedicated, do the job right and don't take short cuts attitude to the job, this had been good for my daughter. I am so glad that in her first job she didn't ger a team leader with an attitude of this place is a hole and constant giving out and moaning about the organisation they work for.

Procrastastudy

mariaalice wrote: »

I do not know what my daughter might do she might not go in to retail management at all, she might go back to college and do something completely different.

I have had a few different conversations about work with people recently.
Every job has its advantages and disadvantages, I will have to work a 12 hour shift on Christmas day and on Christmas eve thats just the luck of the draw I don't moan about it, my other daughter is a nurse can you imagine what it is like to have to deal with body fluids, sick people and their relatives on a daily basis no careerer or job is perfect, yet the amount of people I come across with a grass is greener somewhere else mentality is amazing.

Bear in mind - it's not the luck of the draw in Retail its expected; year in year out family or not. A nurse is doing worthwhile work that lives depend on. A retailer is just expected to make out the problem X customer has is life or death.

mariaalice wrote: »

The retail job my daughter has is her first real job, her team leader is Indian and has a hard work, dedicated, do the job right and don't take short cuts attitude to the job, this had been good for my daughter. I am so glad that in her first job she didn't ger a team leader with an attitude of this place is a hole and constant giving out and moaning about the organisation they work for.

And I wish her all the best. I would do this one exercise though - look around and see how many retail managers there are in their 30s, 40s and 50s - you'll see the numbers drop off dramatically. That's not down to them all getting directorships I can assure you.

That said its not a bad job for a few years. I actually recommend it if its a means to an ends. Just make sure she keeps on with qualifying. A business, management, HR or accounting qualification will all help her in her retail career and will give her something to fall back on.

I wasn't getting at anyone who was making sensible points about retail management as a careerer, it more the people with the grass is greener attitude I am talking about colleges I have worked with who moaned constantly and genuinely believed that there is are other jobs/careers where its interesting, very well paid, stress free, fulfilling great holidays, where you are respected and it has a fabulous pension at the end ot it, ( university lecture maybe? ) but the point is jobs like that are as rare as hen teeth. I do not like people who constantly give out about their careerer/job.
I have perfected the trick of appearing to listen them while in reality all I hear is blabla moan blabla:D