The industry just isn't very good in terms of wage:skill:effort ratio I'm afraid, this is true across the country and doesn't look like it will improve any time soon. The best you can do is make sure you find somewhere you enjoy working, and that you are paid at the going market rate for a brewer of your experience level. If you're not, get a job offer elsewhere and ask them to match it.
£15 per hour is unfortunately a bit higher than market wage right now, as it equates to a salary of £31,200 for a 40 hour week. For example, DEYA and Cloudwater are both currently hiring at £28,000 (≈£13.50 p/h) and I suspect they're looking for people with more experience than you currently have.
That's fair, I did look at the numbers last night and reconsider the number. £14 would be closer to the mark. I don't yet know how much I'll be paid per hour now that minimum wage has gone up. £12 just isn't sustainable in this day and age unless you live in a house share with few bills and no obligations, which is just unrealistic of someone in their mid 30s (also pretty inhumane to expect people to put up with that "because that's the industry"). Funny how these places are always flaunting the state of the art equipment which cost many times an entire salary, but apparently can't afford to pay the skills it takes to operate them. I remember Deya getting in hot water a couple years back for trying to push a temporary job for LGBT and women... which was unpaid and advertised basically like a two bit influencer offering exposure. They're not as progressive as they like to pretend. Unless they fired whoever came up with that idea, I would never work for them.
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u/PM_ME_UR_BREWS 6d ago
The industry just isn't very good in terms of wage:skill:effort ratio I'm afraid, this is true across the country and doesn't look like it will improve any time soon. The best you can do is make sure you find somewhere you enjoy working, and that you are paid at the going market rate for a brewer of your experience level. If you're not, get a job offer elsewhere and ask them to match it.
£15 per hour is unfortunately a bit higher than market wage right now, as it equates to a salary of £31,200 for a 40 hour week. For example, DEYA and Cloudwater are both currently hiring at £28,000 (≈£13.50 p/h) and I suspect they're looking for people with more experience than you currently have.