Corey is keen to pick up some work here if he can, so he went to the local Pizza Hut store in our local mall where there was an advertisement for a Customer Service Operator. Before applying he decided to asked the manager if he minded telling him how much he earns an hour. He also picked up an application form.
In Australia: Corey worked at Pizza Hut when he was in Year 7 (Normally you can get a job in Year 10) no qualifications required, maybe good marks would help. You would get $10.00/hr.
If you work up to manager (this guy was 22) in Australia you would be earning $18/hr.
In Philippines: The application required college courses in customer service and management. This was not a high school kids job. He was getting 60 pesos/hr.
Remember $1AUS = 40 peso.
As you can imagine Corey was a little less eager to apply for the job! He wouldn't qualify anyway except he has experience in retail.
Just in case you haven't worked it out - the manager was earning $1.50 Aus per hour.
Many things are cheaper here than in Australia - we get ripped off in the land down under!
Take a Cornetto -drumstick in Aus $3.50 - 4.00 or a Magnum maybe $4.00 = 4.50.
Now they are a little smaller in the Philippines (maybe 2/3 the size) but a Cornetto is 25 peso and Magnum is 50 peso. They taste just as good believe me - we have had a few!
The Bottle of Sprite is 13 pesos - about 30cents in Aus.
So if you work at Pizza Hut as a manager in Aus you can afford to buy 4 magnums with one hours work, as a manager in the Philippines you only can have 1 Magnum. However, if you are an Aussie Pizza Hut manager buying in the Philippines you can buy 14 Magnums with your $18 or 720 Pesos.
Win - win if you are an Aussie.
So for us they are cheap - for Filipino's they are expensive.
Petrol is about the same price. 1000 pesos gets about 21litres of petrol.
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