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Asked by mystrawberrymilkshake to Alex, Chris, Harriet, Jed, Ken on 12 Mar 2012.
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Ken Gibbs answered on 9 Mar 2012:
Sadly, I receive no funding at all because I am now retired. While I was still in full time work, I received only a salary or a fee which seems to have been enough to keep me going. Actually, most of the time I was paid in US dollars meaning that my actual salary (when converted to UK pounds) varied from month to month, depending on the exchange rate. When I worked for the United Nations, I was relatively well paid, but when I worked for charity agencies like OXFAM and MSF, I sometimes earned in a month what the United Nations paid me per day !
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Harriet Fletcher answered on 9 Mar 2012:
My work is funded out of all your water rates and they are set up by the regulator every 5 years. Occasionally I do some work for private companies as well.
If you’re asking how much we’re paid then have a look at this website:
http://www.totaljobs.com/salary-checker/salary-calculator
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Alexander Zacheshigriva answered on 10 Mar 2012:
I work in a company and my work is salaried. At the moment I am paid overtime plus expenses when I do travel for work. But that’s it for funding.
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Jed Ramsay answered on 12 Mar 2012:
Do you mean personally or to do my work?
Some of the projects I run can be fairly expensive, I guess the biggest one I have managed cost about £1 million pounds and for that I restored over 2 kilometres of river to a more natural condition – improving it for fish and other wildlife. Last week I started a job that will cost £100,000 to repair some of the locks (similar to those on a canal where boats travel through) on the River Thames. All of this money is mostly from the government.
But unfortunately my personal funding doesn’t come from the money from projects and is not as big as these amounts! The link that Harriet posted shows an average of £40,00 a year for a water engineer – I’m not quite at that average yet!
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