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Originally Posted by Pierre
From Reed U.K.
Avg Plumber salary 30K
Avg Office Co-ordinator salary 22K
My next door neighbour is a plumber (one man band) and he earns ( I fully expect) Well more than the average too. Detached farm house, his Van, BMW M3, Nissan Juke, ride on mower for His 1.5 acre garden.
Using IT for work is in no way any prediction of earnings or “class”
The whole Class argument is an old fashioned argument anyway. Blue collar/white collar can still be used as a descriptor, but there’s absolutely no guarantee that a white collar job is better or pays more than a blue collar job.
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As I said I don't have the stats so it could be misplaced but at the same time taking two examples isn't going to tell us the overall picture either.
There will be office jobs that pay minimum wage and highly technical, well paying, manual jobs. I just wonder what the aggregate is. I don't think it's bizarre that someone would assume that people who can work from home are more likely to have higher income jobs, even if it's wrong.
I agree blue collar/white collar is a better description than class though. I sort of took class to mean income in this context.