How much would you work in iraq for?

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Hi All

Say you were working for an American General in a safe part of Iraq to live with the occassional trip by Heli and road. Part of a 20 person team.

How much would you work there for?

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Andrew.McEwan

the £400 per day sounds resnable but it all depends on the risk and area...

High risk = £500 - £600 not a penny less
rest of Iraq (Medium high to high) = £400

Many would work for less but i value my butt, I havent done all this training to get it shot off 3 days into the job.



Andrew

neemo

its a good poll you have there
the team im on were discussing this topic the other day.
its all down to the Job in hand and the Area you are working from.
and the time of exposure your on the ground,
the consensus was £200, no less.
there are other companies paying their operators less than that a day, and still have a que at the door with newly badged SIA operatives willing to work.
im up in Sunny Mosul and on £275 a day.

VIP BG

Wages has always been a subject that people keep close to there chest and rightly so as it is very personal. Sometimes people add a wee bit on or take a we bit off for varying reasons.

When the ballon went up CRG/Armour group and Raymonds etc where on a mint and people made big money very fast......

I would luv to know what people really get? And how much companies pay per day nowadays.

What company do you guys work for and how much do you get if you dont mind me asking?

Cheers

VIP BG

20 man team?????in your dreams pal???

mally

Yep, a lad I trained with was part of such a team, and what a nice house he got out of it!

Seraph

I think how much I'd want would depend on which outfit I worked for too partly

DanD

A cpl of people i know have just gone out to afghan with Armour......£123.00 pd......not what u expect these days, but thats about average......and when i mean average i mean average...I know some are paying 275 and 300. When i first went out i was on 400....haven't heard of anything bigger. You have to remember guys and girls what the average service person is on.....if he is going to get out and work for double his pay he will, and thats what companies are going to pay, as they know they will have a queue for it. I am in UK on 250 a day......now that is fantastic, unfortunately it stops soon.....i will admit, in a years time when i am struggling with my mortgage i would work for 123 a day. Doesn't matter how good you are, what training you have, if your out of work and you want to remain in this business you will take what u can when u can. Cant recall who said they value their butt and they wouldn't work for less than a certain figure.......when you hit hard times...and you will....you will work for less than what you expect. Trust me the good jobs come but you have to take the bad with it. You look at how many people have a licence now....figure above 3,000 i think..... remember you don't neccessarily need a licence for afghan or iraq....so in essence u are up against over 3000 for a job in the uk......uk isn't in demand for CP operators. Good luck

VIP BG

Cheers buddy,

You've just about summed up the entire industry.

Great info for everybody out there who are looking at moving into this world!

If you think that by doing a civ course and getting an 'SIA' licence you'll be able to walk into mega buck film star wages whilst snorting coke from the crack of Posh spices arse during an after show celebrity filled party then read the thread above.

Soz it not going to happen unless yer name is david!

But im sure you'll find some prozzie up the west end willing to dress up for you as Posh and you can do anything you want to the crack of her arse for £200

..........so ive been told

silhouette

I agree with DanD, the UK market is flooded with operators. I remember back in 2000 there were only two main CP training centres - TASK and Global. Last time I checked there were 72 SIA approved CP training providers. As Peter Jennings mentioned on a different thread here, most of these have missed the boat and will struggle to fill places. As for jobs in CP, the average soldier today is vastly more experienced than his counterpart ten years previously. These guys are ideal CP operatives in the eyes of PMCs - they have recent in country experience and still retain a high degree of military discipline, but most importantly their wage expectation is comparitively low and they will happily chug away for 172 a day. Personally, Im happy to leave it to them as I found that when I was in Iraq, no amount of money was worth getting hit on a daily basis! That said, Ive got massive respect for the boys that have been out there years... gamblers every one of em!