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What would be the average rate for gardeners be now with the current exchange rate please?

smiffies wrote: ↑

Mon 21 Feb 2022 2:20 pm

What would be the average rate for gardeners be now with the current exchange rate please?

If you have paid for such work here before in the past, you could try the following

Take the last TL rate you paid for such work and divide that by what the lira to sterling rate was back then. multiple that by the current lira to sterling rate. add a few % for sterling inflation if you want.

for example if last time you used a gardener you paid 200TL per day and it was 9TL to pound back then, thats 200/9 = 22.22222 .Times that by rate today, say 18.5 and you get 411.11TL. Say 450 if you feeling like it or 400 if not. Just plug your own previous numbers in and that will give one kind of answer to your question.

I really don't see why gardeners rates are based on the exchange rate. If you wish to earn the lira equivalent to sterling, just ask for the amount in sterling.

Living and working in ncyp, they should in reality be based on the average wage, given they most prob pay no tax either!

Assuming you do not live from TL denominated income.

Depends what you mean by going rate I guess. My answer was to the question what is the same amount in sterling that I was paying before for such work, then put back in to TL today.

You can ask has the economic impact of the last few years on the TRNC economy meant that you can now get the same work done for less sterling
equivalent today than you could before ? I do not think that was what the original poster asked. To that question I do not know but would guess probably. My approach would be if I thought x amount of sterling was a fair going rate then for work done in the TRNC then, then it is still so and still worth that amount of sterling to me today. Maybe a bit more. To account of sterling inflation.

Why not ask a few gardeners what they currently charge, and get an average from their replies?

Thanks, subject closed.

Mine was 50tl in November now 90tl per hour each

I will chime in here. I pay 100 sterling for two guys who spend 2 hours each week for four weeks, they are more than happy with that rate as we are. We give them fruit and hot and cold drinks during their time here.
We have had them now for over 12 months, never let us down. On the odd day when its pouring down we both agree to give it a miss, no point in working in the rain.

Current Minimum Wage rates are - Gross 7000TL, Hourly 40,38, Daily 323,07, Weekly 615,38, Net 6090. May I politely suggest that if you are paying for gardening services less than minimum wage then you have either struck a very good deal or are simple taking advantage of the exchange rate between Sterling and the TL. If you are paying more than the minimum wage and happy to be doing so because your workers are doing a good job and they deserve higher than minimum wage, then thank you and carry on doing so.

I have great difficulty in figuring out how 6 days wages which = 1938,42TL equates to 1 weeks minimum wage of 615,38TL and how 4 x 1 weeks wage 615,38 equates to a monthly minimum wage of 6090TL myself but those are the last official figures I saw released!!

Mollie's guys being paid £50 each for 8 hours work each = £50 X 18.75TL = 937TL-ish at todays exchange rate are well above minimum rates but seem to me to be more than fair. My guy - when I need him - puts in a 6 hour day for 500TL and complains I pay him too much - you can't win but let your conscience be your guide!!

You have to remember. Not many here are actual experienced gardeners. Too many it's a 2nd or even 3rd job.
They are mainly general labourer's, trying to earn enough to survive & send money back to Pakistan or where ever families are.
Pay what you feel they are worth. We pay 100TL per man hour. My neighbours pay same worker 80TL per man hour.
He's happy with both away's turns up

At last, some common sense from Mimi2. I pay one firm of gardeners, that I call in for pruning, re shaping of bushes, mass spraying of weed etc (they have their own equipment) one price and come about every three months, another price to an odd job sort of guy (who is starting next month) for day to day weeding, clearing away all the dead leaves and bushing down the driveway etc. In other words work that I know he's capable of and has no equipment at all. Everyone seems happy.

I've just had my fruit trees pruned for the first time in years they were overgrown bushes plus a bitter orange tree topped and a Washington orange graft on top.. 9 trees that now look like trees and they pruned everything in sight. Three men took about an hour and a half all expert at what they did. Cost was 750 tl and well worth it took all rubbish and the difference is amazing.

Looks a good deal terry2366. Surprising what a decent prunning does to a garden. Two of our LED wall lights now work as they should i.e. right down to bottom a drive and after having two trees well and truly lopped, the neighbours have much more light in a bedroom.