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Originally Posted by peppy
Tradework:
Carpentry $20/hour per man
Plumbing same
Electrical same
Painting same
Flooring
legal $75-$100/ hour
auto $55/hour
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Never saw a painter make electrician's wage. I was one for 10 years.
At one time I could make 300/day as a carpenter. It stood at 200/day all through the 80's until towards the 1992 recession. After that, I could make anywhere between if I could find work. Today, I have lowered my rate to 80's prices and I get turned down if there's a immigrant available to work for whatever it is they will take.
I could not have any more contempt for the American public and their attitude towards paying for a job well done by a well trained mechanic.
Most of the idiotic public won't recognize that we tradespersons refer to one another as mechanics. Most of the idiotic public deserves Jack-in-the-Box labor. They wouldn't understand the difference between horsemeat and USDA Prime.
The cabinet maker I used in the 80's had it down: he mandated that people suck.
That's the wages in my area, suck wages. But ass sucking lawyers haven't heard.