In article <005201beba98$1e948dc0$7ab4aad0@brian>, Brian Trout <btrout@desupernet.net> writes >Hi Barrie, > >I'm sorry I don't have more complete information. > >I have to confess, I have no idea of what the national average earnings >figures are. > >I work for a piano store, and even amoung the people who work there, the >figures vary widely. For full time employees, the lowest is probably just >over $11,000, and the highest is around $30,000 (although I happen to know >that that person worked a lot of overtime to earn that much.) I find these sats interesting, but the last survey we did in the UK did not mach what the Government sponsored stas thinks we get, across the board. I found looking at them this morning that wiles there was a large a gap of income between the high earners and low earners £15,000. There was not such a large percentage of low earners as in the US. (that will reflect the deferent ways we train tuners less part timers in the UK at the time of the survey 8 years ago) Although the survey was meant to be anonymous some members included a letter, so I was able to identify some none requested observations one being that the best tuners in a given town where not always the hi earners. Of course the ones who diversified, where the most successful and some tuners only tune and pass repair work on, that reflected in their income as well. However, one thing that was constant was all the top earners used a computer, to run their tuning round. This proved that good office practice counted in organising your work. One other interesting ditty is that 40% of those who filed in the form came into the profession not knowing how to play the piano. All in the survey where self employed. Barrie, -- Barrie Heaton | Be Environmentally Friendly URL: http://www.uk-piano.org/ | To Your Neighbour The UK Piano Page | pgp key on request | HAVE YOUR PIANO TUNED
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