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.
@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.
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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