Agents take another pay blow in June

The monthly Travel News poll asking what percentage of their regular salary readers received last month, shows they are split into roughly three groups.

A fortunate 37% of readers were paid upwards of 60% of their salary – fortunate but hard-pressed as they take on the work of their missing colleagues.

The middle group, 25% of readers, were paid 20%-60% of their normal pay.

The unfortunate largest group, making up 38% of the total of 540 responses, got nothing at all or a maximum of 19% of their pay. This percentage grew from 36% the previous month.

As the Third Wave of COVID grew, the number of readers getting full pay shrivelled from 17% in May to 14% in June.

Here are the poll results for June and May.