How much do bin workers get paid?

A strike among Bin workers in Birmingham has left lots of waste in the city.

In the heart of the dispute is the elimination of the role of waste recycling and collection officers (WRCO), who were paid more than other BIN workers.

BIN workers can be paid differently, depending on their role in the BIN collection process.

The National Statistics Office (ESE) publishes estimated profits for the category “Rejection and rescue occupations” whose role is “supervising and making garbage collection and processing.”

According to the ONS, these workers obtained an average of £ 26,543 in 2024, which is equivalent to a little more than £ 13 per hour. The minimum wage for workers over 21 years in 2024 was £ 11.44 per hour.

The National Carreras Service says that the payment range for a container worter is on average between £ 24,000 and £ 30,000 per year, or equivalent to Betsen £ 11.50 and £ 14.50 per hour.

The Birmingham City Council told us that the payment band for loaders, most Junior people who work in a container truck, in Birmingham, £ 24,027 to £ 25,992, that is around £ 11.50 to £ 12.50 per hour.

The drivers are counted in a different category: drivers of heavy and large vehicles, whose average profits were £ 38,337, according to the ONS.

In Birmingham, they are on a scale of £ 33,366 to £ 40,476.

Bin Lorry drivers in Birmingham were accompanied by two chargers and a WRCO, but the council now wants to reduce the crews to three getting rid of the role of the Wrco.

The WRCO are in a higher payment band than the loaders: £ 26,409 to £ 32,654. We asked the City Council of Birmingham for its complete description of the work, but they did not give it.

Unite, the union that represents surprising workers, says that this back of the truck paper is “security critic”, but the counter says that “none of the roles makes specific reference to the response of a main person, all the duty to follow all the duty to follow.

He also said that maintaining the most paid role could open the advice to more salary claims, since garbage collection is an excessively done work by men.

Unite states that WRCO’s role will leave some workers who have to accept salary cuts up to £ 8,000.

The Council says that the figures are “incorrect” and “no one will lose £ 8,000 per year.” Its estimate is that the maximum amount that anyone could lose would be “just over £ 6,000”.

The union has reached the figure of £ 8,000 when considering someone who decides to accept a position as a charger once their WRCO role is discarded, and not take the alternative suggestions of the Council. They calculated the loss that moved from the top of the payment scale for WRCOS – £ 32,654 – to the lower part of the payment scale for the loaders – £ 24,027.

Where it is on the salary scale is known as its spinal point and is determined for the amount of years that the leg doing the job and some additional factors.

It is because they are spinal points that someone is unlikely to move from the top of a salary scale to the lower part of a more junior, so special when the junior paper is in the sector of the services sector.

Max Winthrop, a member of the Employment Law Committee of the Law Society, said: “I would normally expect the spinal point of the highest classification to remain when a lower level position is sacrificed.”

However, he says that it is “not impossible” that the opposite happens if both parties agree on such a contract.

The Council has reached its maximum salary cutting figure by assuming that a WRCO, who decides to stay as a container worker despite the lowest salary scale for loaders, would preserve his spinal point. That is more realistic, but it is still a salary cut of ATE of 18%.

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In response to a request for freedom of information, the Council said that, at the end of 2024, he used 736 workers directly in garbage collection and 493 agency workers.

He said that the average cost of using workers from the agency was £ 18.44 per hour, although that may include loaders, WRCO and drivers and is the amount paid by the Council, not the amount received by the workers.

That would work at a cost for the counter of approximately 38,000 a year if the worker were employed full time.

The FOI also had the duration of the service of the oldest agency used by the counter and was tolerated that they had their legs doing the job for 13 years.

Additional reports from David Verry