Angel Di Maria and the nursery key worker.

A friend of mine gave me the current copy of FourFourTwo for my birthday. I love football so I enjoyed flicking through it. There was an interesting article on how much top footballers earn per week.

Lionel Messi

The highest paid footballer in the world is Lionel Messi. He is on a cool  £512,835 a week. He beats Ronaldo's £502,863. The highest paid English Premier League player is Angel Di Maria who is on a rather modest £250,000 a week.

Angel Di Maria

Some other notable weekly pay packets:

Gareth Bale,  Real Madrid & Wales, £324,795

Wayne Rooney, Man Utd & England £235,000

Radamel Falcao, Monaco & Man Utd, Colombia £217,840

Robin Van Persie, Man Utd & Holland £210,000

Eden Hazard, Chelsea & Belgium £200,000

Yaya Toure, Man City & Ivory Coast £190,000

John Terry, Chelsea & England, £175,000

Steven Gerrard, Liverpool & England, £140,000

I am thinking about wages this week because my daughter's excellent key worker at nursery is leaving her position for a career change: a telesales operative for a multinational company. I spoke to her about this briefly and she said had no chance to save money to buy a house with the salary she was on. Looking online, a key worker/ nursery practitioner could be on around £15,000-£17,000 which works out at about £288 per week (£7.70 p/h).

If a parent sends their son or daughter to nursery, the role of the key worker is almost like a second mother or father. Due to the long working hours culture that we all have to contend with, in many cases the key worker will see more of the child than the parent(s). However, leaving this important role to market forces means that parents tend to find child care expensive, child care workers find the pay too low and the proprietors of nurseries are probably barely making an average salary as their profit.

I assume if Angel Di Maria's agent is ever asked if his client is worth a weekly pay packet, which observed as a ratio, is 870:1 more than a Trafford nursery key worker he would probably reply these inflated prices are what clubs are prepared to pay.

Green Party policy is 10:1 ratio 

The Green party stands for fair pay and that is why we believe in a 10:1 ratio for wages. On Brighton and Hove council the Chief Executive has actually taken a pay cut in order for Greens to move in the direction of 10:1 ratio.


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