Higher salaries overseas tempt UK professionals

摘要

Industry leaders are warning that higher salaries and skills shortages abroad will start to see UK construction professionals heading overseas, writes Jordan Marshall. According to Building's 2019 International Salary Survey, which has been produced by recruitment firm Hays, the lure of better pay and ongoing political uncertainty in the UK will prove too much of a draw for some. Ann Bentley, global board director at Rider Levett Bucknall, said there had been a slowdown in movement between UK companies - pointing towards staff looking abroad. She said: "I would say this is stage one, where someone thinks, 'I've got a reasonably well-paid job that I've had for a while, so I'll stay here rather than being the newest person in another business'. Stage two is, 'should I look abroad?'"