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Farm workers wages!

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  • 28-12-2014 10:33pm
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    Feckthis
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    Does anyone know what are farm workers usually paid per hour?


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    #2
    sh1tstirrer
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    I was getting €10/hour a few years back. The farm relief pay min wage an zero travel allowance.


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    9935452
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    i was going to say 8 to 10 an hour but it would all depend on experience/ level of skill, your flexibility , who you are working for,some lads might pay a slight bit more,


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    Miname
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    Would many lads work for 8 an hour now?


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    Mad4simmental
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    Miname wrote: »
    Would many lads work for 8 an hour now?

    Not a hope. You'd get more standing in the line.


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    whelan2
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    lad that helps me out gets 10 euro an hour, he knows nothing about farming but does a good bit of heavy work like forking out troughs, taking tyres off pit, dont really get him that often


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    Feckthis
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    whelan2 wrote: »
    lad that helps me out gets 10 euro an hour, he knows nothing about farming but does a good bit of heavy work like forking out troughs, taking tyres off pit, dont really get him that often

    What would you pay someone if you took them on full-time who has experience with dairy cows and machinery?


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    frazzledhome
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    Feckthis wrote: »
    What would you pay someone if you took them on full-time who has experience with dairy cows and machinery?

    €100/day 6.30 to 6pmp


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    Deepsouthwest
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    frazzledhome wrote: »
    €100/day 6.30 to 6pmp

    A full time man with experience of cows and machinery for €8/hr? I don't think so Tim! That's €320 for a 40 hr wk. There's no way I could get someone at that rate, anyone here gets €10/hr, that's from students up to experienced lads, (normally give the experienced more hrs) also a meal in the middle of the day, but thinking of phasing that out.


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    Greengrass1
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    Deepsouthwest wrote: »
    A full time man with experience of cows and machinery for €8/hr? I don't think so Tim! That's €320 for a 40 hr wk. There's no way I could get someone at that rate, anyone here gets €10/hr, that's from students up to experienced lads, (normally give the experienced more hrs) also a meal in the middle of the day, but thinking of phasing that out.
    Any where I worked I always got 10/hr.
    Except for my first placement where I was only getting something like 200e for 4 10hr days


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    Deepsouthwest
    Registered Users Posts: 2,282 ✭✭✭Deepsouthwest


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Jeez wish I got you for my first placement.10e/hr . I would have been minted with the he's I worked

    A student here gets €122 for a 35 hr wk(that's the set rate) and then €10/hr for every hr after that. Last yrs student worked crazy hrs, and took part of his payment in calved heifers that I let him pick, a really great lad.


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    sh1tstirrer
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    frazzledhome wrote: »
    €100/day 6.30 to 6pmp
    Does that include meals?


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    frazzledhome
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    sh1tstirrer wrote: »
    Does that include meals?

    Absolutely not.
    1hr for breakfast and 1 hr for lunch


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    Dawggone
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    frazzledhome wrote: »
    €100/day 6.30 to 6pmp

    Gross or net??


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    frazzledhome
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    Dawggone wrote: »
    Gross or net??

    Netto


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    lakill Farm
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    when I was in 5th year in secondary I worked with a mixed suckler/ sheep farmer for £2 an hour that was maybe 1998 or so. Had feck all experience and I was shown lots. And more so I had something to do. had my weekend job also so worked with farmer 5 days till 3pm on a Friday and off to my weekend for Friday evening and Saturday. I did what ever job was given. cattle, sheep, tractor work, jeep work, powerwashing, lawns, painting, maintenance, silage etc

    I spent 5 summers with that farmer, the last one half as I went at silage for the busy pit season. fair enough I got more money following years. I missed 2 days in 5 summers, a few easter breaks and xmass breaks. down to a shoulder dislocation while loading a wild cull ewes.


    So surely you can get a younger student to help for €5/€8 an hour depending on experience and length of hours per day?


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    whelan2
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    lakill Farm wrote: »
    when I was in 5th year in secondary I worked with a mixed suckler/ sheep farmer for £2 an hour that was maybe 1998 or so. Had feck all experience and I was shown lots. And more so I had something to do. had my weekend job also so worked with farmer 5 days till 3pm on a Friday and off to my weekend for Friday evening and Saturday. I did what ever job was given. cattle, sheep, tractor work, jeep work, powerwashing, lawns, painting, maintenance, silage etc

    I spent 5 summers with that farmer, the last one half as I went at silage for the busy pit season. fair enough I got more money following years. I missed 2 days in 5 summers, a few easter breaks and xmass breaks. down to a shoulder dislocation while loading a wild cull ewes.


    So surely you can get a younger student to help for €5/€8 an hour depending on experience and length of hours per day?
    think alot of young people dont want to do the work now adays


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    mahoney_j
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    frazzledhome wrote: »
    €100/day 6.30 to 6pmp

    Jaysus I won't be sending u my cv so!!!


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    mahoney_j
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    Dawggone wrote: »
    Gross or net??

    Cash or through the books


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    frazzledhome
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    mahoney_j wrote: »
    Cash or through the books

    Through books


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    frazzledhome
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    mahoney_j wrote: »
    Jaysus I won't be sending u my cv so!!!

    Tell me where a guy will get €700 a week elsewhere

    I wouldn't be taking the colour of it


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    Greengrass1
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    10/hr what's wrong with that lads? What other job would ye get that with out being qualified?


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    simx
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    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    10/hr what's wrong with that lads? What other job would ye get that with out being qualified?

    id consider 10/hr to be quite acceptable, id be happy to work for it anyway


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    mahoney_j
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    frazzledhome wrote: »
    Tell me where a guy will get €700 a week elsewhere

    I wouldn't be taking the colour of it

    I worked off farm for years and can appreciate how hard and physically demanding working on a dairy farm can be .long hours and proper work on a farm has to be worth more than min wage,fair enough if its only for someone used sporadically for jobs like foddering ,cleaning sheds,powerwashing sheds etc but a full time guy on site for 12 hours a day deserves more unless he's a total dimwit


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    Cran
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    11 euros an hour here, but not full time he's guaranteed paid 20 hours a week but flexible to work more or less depending on week and averages out over time and fixed up every 1/4 for anything additional.


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    Greengrass1
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    mahoney_j wrote: »
    I worked off farm for years and can appreciate how hard and physically demanding working on a dairy farm can be .long hours and proper work on a farm has to be worth more than min wage,fair enough if its only for someone used sporadically for jobs like foddering ,cleaning sheds,powerwashing sheds etc but a full time guy on site for 12 hours a day deserves more unless he's a total dimwit
    What do you pay lads?
    I worked for 2 differemt lads before I came hom . 10/hr and got fed to . Milking moving stock slurry spreading calve reading cleaning cubicles was general run of things


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    J DEERE
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    Was getting 12 an hour and 18 for Sunday's before leaving in 2012. 200 cows, milking all year round. Was given breakfast and tea


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    #28
    Mulumpy
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    My milker gets 40 per milking and 12 euro per hour for roughly 5 to 6 extra hrs a week. I've another casual guy that does my power washing and odd jobs he gets 10 an hour. Neither are fed.


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    #29
    Base price
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    I thought that Agricultural workers wages were covered by National Wage Agreements. From memory and I stand corrected - a worker with experience minimum rate per hour is €9.40. It may have changed over the years but the rates used to be posted on the website of the Labour Relations Commission.


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    #30
    mahoney_j
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    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    What do you pay lads?
    I worked for 2 differemt lads before I came hom . 10/hr and got fed to . Milking moving stock slurry spreading calve reading cleaning cubicles was general run of things

    No workers bar me and whatever the da can do,money spent so I don't need staff outside contractors and relief milkers also don't have enough scale to justify.never or rarely in yard after 6 o clock.milker gets 40 per milking and worth every penny ,odd time I do need someone its 12 euro an hour and he's feed and watered.


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    #31
    Milked out
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    I think frazz posted above that he gives 100/day net, so that's what he takes home so it costs frazz a good bit more by the time taxes are paid. The minimum wage is a gross figure so he is getting a fair bit above that with 2 hours of breaks


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