It’s me, the guy who thinks MPs are underpaid
Which jobs do Britons think are overpaid?
Most overpaid (of those polled) Male footballers: 93% Company directors: 78% MPs: 76% Bankers: 76% Actors: 57% Barristers: 51% Accountants: 47% Train drivers: 43% Civil servants: 35% Journalists: 34%
I think this type of question should always refer to "Your MP".
We should avoid cynical questions about the abstract group of politicians and ground it the public's experience with their own local representatives.
Where's after dinner speakers?
Is that 2% who reckon care workers are overpaid?
Relative to senior jobs in major PLC's, they are clearly underpaid. Being an MP and giving up a career in industry is not financially attractive at all. Given the grief that is visited on them, why would anyone want to do it?
You are not the only one.
I suspect as an overall profession, actors would very much push back on the overpaid perception.
Oh they get a hundred thou, pipe down
If they were actually talented, yes.
Chicken::egg
Some polling really does drive home how small this website is
I'm with you, I think MPs are massively underpaid and should get well over £100k.
I also think that, while they're MPs and for at least two years afterwards (during which they'd also be paid), they shouldn't be allowed to have any outside income, and if they do it should be assumed to be a bribe.
Daily Telegraph cartoonists are underpaid.
Also making a heroic stand for “no, footballers are not overpaid, they are comrades reaping the rewards of their labour in a multi billion pound industry”.
Argument to be made for sure, especially if restrictions on other income go with it. And actual enforcement of Parliamentary rules. Fine, have a couple of hundred grand/year but fuck about and you'll find out in spades.
Although civil servants overpaid? Most really, really, aren't.
I agree, there's no way on earth I would up with the rubbish they have to put up with for their pay. Also, suspect that's widely held view amongst professionals, who would otherwise have a lot to give.
Pretty ridiculous it has 'actors'. You know everyone asked will be thinking of Tom Cruise rather than normal people grateful for a job wearing bright pink and singing "DIARRHEA!" in a Pepto-Bismol ad.
If it was my call I'd have done a poll and who people think and are willing to say are underpaid.
I had this argument 2 days ago. MPs should know the correct simple solution to every problem, simultaneously be in their constituencies sorting out problems whilst "governing" and voting in Parliament, ... for about £30 000 a year and living in a £500 per night hotel room vacated by a migrant.
People who think that university lecturers and journalists are overpaid have clearly never met one.
5% don't knows. Now ask them how much MPs get paid.
Interesting that the jobs considered underpaid are those that the UK grants VISAs to migrant labour to fulfill
I see 'musicians' isn't on that list
Yup. My very first reform -even before hitting the system for appointing Lords- would be paying MPs at CEO rates but banning any and all other incomes, with stricter rules on the length of time they have to wait before taking a job in any industries they've had influence over once they leave office.
They probably are when compared with peer countries. Actors are also underpaid, most of them are people you've never heard of.
MPs are underpaid if people want them to be a) not from wealth b) spending a lot of time doing it.
but the core problem is really they all ought to have much bigger staff budgets. the Legislature would be better at holding the Executive to account if MPs could hire both more and better.
I'll put my head above parapet and agree with you on this one.
Actors?!
I'd actually pay them more money but would then ban any other form of income whilst they are a sitting MP. Anyone found earning money on the side is removed & immediate by-election triggered.
Those who need to carry on doing certain jobs to maintain professional competencies get specific time off.
There are only 3 on this list that I don’t think are underpaid
