NEARLY 20%
of travel staff don’t think they’ll get a pay rise in their next salary review
– but many claim a pat on the back and a good relationship with colleagues are
more important.
The
findings come from the Travel Weekly Travel Industry Market Survey, an
independent survey organised in partnership with C&M Recruitment. The
survey asked 1,750 travel industry counter clerks, managers, owners and
directors in the UK their opinions on pay and working conditions.
It
revealed the average salary is £25,000, and although the average last annual
salary rise was 3.1%, not everyone got an increase. In fact, 1% of respondents
saw their salary drop by 5% while almost a quarter received no increase.
More than
one in 10 admitted to having told a substantial lie on their CV to boost their
chances of getting a better job or more money. Company directors were the main
fabricators with 18% of them lying, followed by agents with 13%.
Of those
who admitted stretching the truth, 45% bumped up their salary, 31% lied about
hobbies or academic qualifications and 19% made their experience in the
workplace sound more impressive than it was.