When I started working as a primary school teacher in 1973 I was earning the tidy sum of $231. a month. My friends who went to work in the oil industry were earning around 7 to 900 dollars a month. 41 years later when I retired in 2014 my salary was $14,000 a month. My friends in the petroleum sector were earning 3 times that. I suppose the money you earn depends on your choosen career path.
@@kingdevinvlogs Now is a different time to long ago. With my salary of $231 a month I was liming, feteing and always in the latest threads. I was even able to put aside something for a rainy day. Nowadays I hear people who earn $10,000 a month bawling and that was before covid and the war. It's real hard times we living in now.
I have been looking at job posting in the USA for the same exact job I am underpaid for in trinidad and foreign companies pay 7 times as much. The icing on the cake is I could do those jobs remotely in Trinidad and earn USD.
Politics has a lot to do with salaries. Doctors earn $43k as consultants and work 28hrs a week as per contractual agreement. The same for Lawyers in the government service. Politicians tend to keep these salaries high because their children may enter into these fields. The politicians need to reduce their salaries and their CEO friends and families, plus hundreds of thousands in bribery when giving government contracts. After the closure of Petrotrin many of the workers have not found jobs and are living in poverty now, similar with TSTT workers and soon to come WASA workers. PNM is the problem because the PNM cabinet wants to live the best life that money can buy, while the rest of the working class struggle daily. Hence the reason PNM started bringing in Cuban doctors. It was to reduce their salaries, maybe we need some Cuban politicians in Trinidad to replace this corrupted PNM government.
