Phil Richards wrote:
Nicholas D Richards wrote:

Obviously I'm not prepared to disclose my salary in public except it's way
under £500 per week. And yes it does involve dealing face to face with the
public along with their bad tempers and abuses in a transport/travel
related enviroment.

A London Transport bus driver earns £8.60 an hour (it's advertised on
the buses). According to European Law a bus driver cannot work for more
than 54 hours in a single week and 90 hours in any two consecutive
weeks.

So assuming our driver does the full 90 hours in 2 weeks he will make
£774 in those two weeks (averaging £387 a week). Even in a week where
he works 54 hours he will make only £464.40 (less than £500).

Tube drivers make more though I don't know why, their job seems less
difficult to do. I don't know how much a bus driver could make if
instead he joined a private coach company.

I do personally think bus drivers are underpaid. I also think that bus
services are generally badly run, especially where 2 different routes
follow the same route for a long period and their timetables are not
synchronised thus leading to bunching. And some routes have too many
buses, there are very few "express" services and very few that go along
primary routes and too many that go down minor roads that are too
narrow. But that is not the fault of the bus driver.