Ziad wrote:Why don't you do over time, you have been missing out on extra money all this while. While for that week, you may pay the top marginal tax rate, if your take gross pay is over about $3500 dollars for the week, but when you do you'r tax return you get a refund on any extra tax paid.
I read his auto biography a good interesting read, a true rags to riches kinda story.
$3500 gross for the week ? that's fairytale stuff for me mate
i'm lucky to gross that for the month i'm employed as a permanant/casual , so i get a better pay rate up front, but no holidays or sick days. seems to be the way a lot of companies want to employ these days. i've got a good arrangment with my employer, where any overtime worked is "booked up" at the overtime pay rate, so i get paid leave but not payng the rediculously high tax rate. seriously, if i do more than four hours a week, the amount extra in my pay , works out to be about $15 a hour and i wont do it. the government can get stuffed. and people wonder why some trades are dieing out and no-one wants to be a apprentice on about a third of what i earn. i left my trade when the mining boom was on to work at a foundry making railway and dragline parts. this was 15 years ago, and i went from $16.50 a hour to $24.50 a hour working afternoon shift. big difference
i went from being a tradesman on a low payrate to a highly paid laborer .i was there for 12 years, but the company did some dodgy stuff, and i ended up with a payout for occupational asthsma. had to get another job, so i went back to my trade. i like my job , and my employers are good to me. but no-one except the sub contractors who work installing on-site want overtime. any wonder i'm a bit bitter in my attitude to people who exploit welfare
and yeh, i know a lot about arnold. extroidinary story, old school self made man with a good work ethic. should be more of it