What people earn

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What people earn

• Children's views on payment for different jobs

By Kim Tullar age 11
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• One of Tony Blair's not so famous quotes,
• I wish I was paid a footballers salary

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What I am trying to find out

• what children think about payment for different
  jobs.

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My Method

• I devised a questionnaire to find out
• children's views.
• I handed the questionnaires out to a
• year 5/6 class and a year 3/4 class.

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Some findings

• Question 2 asked children to select the
• highest and the lowest paid jobs from a list.
• Y3/4 did not seem to realise which jobs were
• paid the most.
• Y5/6 knew more about it.

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Question 3

• Do you think different jobs should be paid
• the same and why?
• Most people in both year groups said no.

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Reasons given included

• The main reason given by children in both
• year groups was Harder or difficult jobs
• should be paid more .
• About 10 of each class said
• Everyone should earn the same amount of
• money .

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• About 20 of year 3/4 said that
• Jobs with longer hours should be paid
• more.

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Question 4

• Average wages for the following jobs are
• A Premier League footballer 1.5 million a year
• A doctor 80,000 a year
• A school cook 12,000 a year
• Do you think this is fair?

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• Yes No
• Y5/6 9 19
• Y3/4 15 15

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Question 6

• If you could decide how much different jobs
• were paid which of the following things do
• you think deserve the most money?
• Being a celebrity
• Helping others
• Need to pass lots of exams for the job
• Doing a dangerous job
• Doing a dirty job

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These are the responses
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Question 7

• Which of the following jobs is the most
• important for your town and which the
• least?
• Footballers
• Doctors
• Teachers
• Pop stars
• Rubbish Collectors

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• Both years agreed that doctors are the most
• important to the town.
• Year 3/4 thought teachers were nearly as
• important.
• Both years agreed that footballers and pop
• stars were the least important to the town.

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Question 8

• Which of the following jobs is the most
• important to you and which the least?
• The responses were basically the same as
• in the last question.

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My conclusion

• Most children seemed to think that jobs that
• helped others or difficult jobs should be paid
• the most and entertainment jobs should be
• paid less than they are.

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Afterthoughts

• If I had the opportunity, I would like 16 year
• olds and adults to respond to my
• Questionnaire.

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References

• www.haveyoursay.org/about93.html
• news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/3180454.stm
• The Times Thursday May 25th 2006