We can’t hire enough good diesel mechanics. It definitely costs a bit more each year.

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Jan 24, 2021
8:15:26pm

Tokolosh All-American

We can’t hire enough good diesel mechanics. It definitely costs a bit more each year.

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Tokolosh

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Seen on FB. I'm sure it's inaccurate/outdated, but still makes me wonder.

Penske Material

1/24/21 8:13pm

Crane operators make a lot if you’re on the big cranes.

WDaddy

1/24/21 8:15pm

We can’t hire enough good diesel mechanics. It definitely costs a bit more each year.

Tokolosh

1/24/21 8:15pm

Crane operators make a lot more.

IrishBlue

1/24/21 8:17pm

As a general contractor, those numbers look really low.

1/24/21 8:17pm

Very

fulano

1/24/21 8:24pm

They look like apprentice rates

WDaddy

1/24/21 8:25pm

PMs coming straight out of school to the big GCs are pulling $80k-$90k to start

WDaddy

1/24/21 8:17pm

PMs?

Penske Material

1/24/21 8:28pm

Project managers but those are college degrees so I guess it doesn’t apply here.

WDaddy

1/24/21 8:29pm

Isn’t minimum wage about to be $15/hr?

endy

1/24/21 8:20pm

Depends on what industry they are working in. I expect oil & gas, power

Born2Fish

1/24/21 8:21pm

I have a friend who is a welder/supervisor on oil pipeline crews

AZ Coug

1/24/21 8:52pm

I believe it

Born2Fish

1/25/21 10:28am

I pay my best industrial electricians $46/hr in a low cost of living state

Noni Fruit

1/24/21 8:31pm

I know a mechanic who made nearly $200k last year- as an employee. Doesn't own

Little Britches

1/24/21 8:40pm

I say the same to my boys. Plan on going to trade school unless you're set on

Penske Material

1/24/21 8:47pm

My auto mechanic makes nearly $100/hour

AZ Coug

1/24/21 8:40pm

Sales wasn't even on the list. The richest people i know are in sales/ started

4mack

1/24/21 8:41pm

Those rates are waaaaay low. Every single plumber I've hired for the last 10

BleedCougarBlue2

1/24/21 9:09pm

Can they work 40 hrs or is some of the hourly hurt by intermittency/traveling

1/24/21 9:22pm

You don’t get charged what they get paid. Plenty other charges folded into the

jjshol1126

1/24/21 11:34pm

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