Could some people post examples of what they’re paid and their grade. I know there’s a big discrepancy and cross over for each grade but would be curious to know as I’ve joined the company recently and want to know if I got low balled.
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@2x3 why were they ring fenced? Did the LT need them to do all the dirty work during the layoffs?
@2he because in last years reorg most of them were ring fenced… they’ll be next on the chopping block
@2he Most id--tic comment on thelayoff goes to…….. 😂
Are you one of the pensioners? WhAt AbOuT mY fInAl SaLaRy??
Boomers richer than everyone else and crying poverty. Shameless. Grifters.
i BuIlT ThIs CoMpAnY 😂
Why are there so many Fs in the UK???
Sunbury, F, Technology, £140k base
Chicago, H, 165K, P&O
Houston, G, P&O, 242 base
UK F £127k
Technology
Wo - UK looks to be a great low cost high tallent base - BP should invest more in talent there!
@1ae That figure can’t be base salary ! It must include 25% bonus and 25% stock.
UK 11 years experience Finance 95k Base
UK G, Technology, 110k base
UK, G, SUBSURFACE, 125 BASE.
Houston, F, Subsurface P&O, 27 yrs, 409k$
Houston, Grade G, P&O, $265k base.
$170K G US. 20%. all the perks
@15r uh, is that an attempt at trolling? If you’re actually an American (which I doubt), you’re way out of touch. Your financial discomforts are self inflicted if you have a $165k base salary in any of bp America locations? Maybe you should talk to someone
Vehicles in the US are absurd. Health care is absurd. What is the allowance for. What is a typical 4/3 home in the UK? For those with two or three kiddos. We bought in 2011 and are priced out from upgrading from our starter home! 16 years in with bp making 165k in technology and it feels like we live pay check by pay by pay check.
Get a grip!
With The government and bp pension in the uk, allowances, car and free health coverage, you can effectively double your uk salary for its equivalent in the US. 40% additional equivalent per year is the pension from what I hear. If you socked away 500k GBP at 45, you can effectively retire.3 MM 401k takes a 30 year career and us retirees still spend 40k a year on just health insurance. The quality of life as a bp employee is far superior to majority of jobs out there and much higher in a relative sense no matter which country you come from. UK managers often have exhibited jealousy and conveniently hide the paper trail on this and give 2% raises to their us team members. US managers reward performance.
Lol i love how Americans are downvoting the comments that we are overpaid. Some Americans have such a hard time accepting that we are overpaid and coddled, and they still complain how we don’t get to work from home 100% of the time and the lack of live jazz concerts in the lobby every month.
Sunbury F in Technology. £93k base
Sunbury UK, P&O, G, £113 base.
@12z us is paid competitive to industry averages in the area. Any major or super major would pay the same, and even more in a lot of cases. Don’t lash out because your government and culture built a system that limits your compensation, comparatively speaking. US’s cost of living and purchasing power = higher wages. Also, not the point of this post? Haha
The cost of living is a lot higher in the UK too. Desperate times for staff there and the small yearly increases are barely above inflation
@tj quick google search shows that average salaries in the uk are 30-50% less than in us, pound for pound. You also don’t know what role that’s for. It’s on par, unless we think everyone should be paying $160k usd for an H level Pune IT support staff, we have to conceptualize regional differences in pay…
@tj yea, even accounting for US/UK differences, that's low.
@tj
Don't forget +20% allowance
7-8k Car allowance
25 days of pto
@tj the grade alone doesn’t mean much, you also need the grade profile to put the salary in context. G finance, G engineering, and G subsurface will have different bands.
@s8 wow an F in the uk makes £115?? That would convert to about $160 USD. I know G’sand H’s in the US who make that much and even more.
Sunbury UK, F, £115 base.
@OP you would need to directly compare like with like (grade, function, role, experience, education etc.) because the grade ranges are enormous and adjacent levels overlap more than they don’t. For example, a grade G could be anywhere between 60-odd k to 130-odd k pa. The top and bottom ends of H and F levels are only around -10 and +10k respectively. Of course, the overall package is different for each level (bonus, shares, car etc.) and so this makes the disparity greater than for the basic alone.
@ez , it’s geology. That person is in subsurface. If you see GP then they’re in geophysics.
@ez grade level.
@aq what is GL
@da - wow, that is actually just a little bit higher that you would get in Poland on that level with 10 years of experience. Like maybe 10% -15% difference. You might pay higher taxes on such income in Poland(as, compared to average salary*, this amount is much higher in Poland than UK), but still, I am having a WTF moment
(that is of course just talking base salary, as retirement system and contributions are vaastly diferent betwen Poland and UK, hard to compare the whole package!)
- yearly average salary in Polish economy is around 21 634 GBP, gross, while google tells me that in UK it is within 35 000 to 40 000 GBP gross. Huge difference.
New joiner in the Uk.... Or?
Likelihood that you've been low balled as a new joiner is, err, low. New joiners often get paid more than those in the same role with long tenure.
So are you going to reference this data set when you march into your bosses office.
@da That’s a big gap compared to US
if you share what grade you are, that would help and for example H can overlap into G in some cases and can vary depending on what part of the business you are working