"Holden just needs to pay normal wages and it won’t need [Govt] handouts"

[Bossxr8]

Originally Posted by ltd

Which is exactly the same information the Grace Collier has used to base his article upon, and he has his own sources giving him the same information.
Base salary 60-80K, overtime and bonuses bring that up to the range of $100-150K.
I myself have spoken to an ex Holden employee who worked at the Elizebeth plant 7 years ago, and I have seen his group certificate showing he was on a little over 110K. This included overtime and bonuses. You can disagree all you like and you'd be an idiot not to, as you didn't see the aforementioned certificate. But the fact is, there are several people who worked/work for Holden who are happy to let the information out as to how much they are/were paid. Sticking your fingers in your ears and saying "no it's not true, I am a mighty keyboard warrior loyalist who knows all" doesn't rebuke the information which has obviously ended up in the hands of someone like Grace Collier.

Base rate of pay is around 50k, not 60-80. Maybe they could stretch their income over 80k if they worked a lot of overtime, but to get over the 100k mark you would have to basically live there and only go home to sleep. But overtime is very limited these days at all the manufacturers, so no one would ever get that sort of coin these days.

And I can base that on what I make which is pretty much the same across the industry, as we all know what the others are on.