Plumber
It would be hard to find anyone who thinks they don’t deserve to be paid more, particularly now that pay freezes and even cuts are on the table at many UK firms.
So how do you escape this monetary misery? The answer is to move overseas where, if you know where to look, you could be earning a stack more.
Average salary in UK: £24,000
Average salary in Australia: £32,600
Plumbing is the glamour job of the building trade and in central London self-employed plumbers can pull in £40,000 to £50,000. But the best average salary in the world for a qualified pipe bender is in Australia where the recession has yet to bite and plumbers earn 30 per cent more than in the UK.
Experienced commercial building plumbers can earn up to £150,000 but these are highly skilled specialists working on high-value office blocks rather than home-visit sink un-blockers.
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