There seems to be no logic applied to wage rates these days.

A bin man hooking up wheelie bins to the back of a truck is probably getting paid more than the person who pays his wages.

Now when they used to be humping heavy bins on their shoulders from the back of people's houses and physically tipping the things into an open truck....YES they were earning their (much lower then) money.

On the other hand there are the thousands of Quango employees on 40 grand a year for pushing bits of paper about and making money on their travel expenses.