28 bucks an hour, at 40 hours a week is 1120. I'll give you 25 hours of OT (60-70 hr/week) is another 1050 on top of your base wage. That's almost 113,000 bucks a year...are you saying that ISN'T a good wage?
28 bucks an hour, at 40 hours a week is 1120. I'll give you 25 hours of OT (60-70 hr/week) is another 1050 on top of your base wage. That's almost 113,000 bucks a year...are you saying that ISN'T a good wage?
Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying.
It seems GREAT as far as raw numbers are concerned, but I'll get personal to my OWN experience in it, not speaking for anyone else.
2018 I made $97,000. Each check I lost about 23% to taxes, so bring home was around 75k.
That was for roughly 3,000 paid hours of labor.
There's only 8,700 hours in a year.
$75,000 bring home, for what was literally half my life spent under a welding hood.
That's not including sleep hours, or travel hours. 3,000 hours a year, spent in a shop, under a welding hood.
Similar to how EVERY blue-collar job conversation goes, you failed to illustrate a decent point WITHOUT mentioning overtime.
Working your life away, and boasting the word "overtime" seems to be the common argument point in these conversations.
Whether or not you personally choose to waste your life away at a job 60-70 hours a week is up to you.
If every welder could just make "almost 113,000 bucks a year" then why is the United States average welding salary only $37k-$60k.
As I said, pay rates are NOT what the blue-collar world would convince you to believe, unless you're in a niche welding facility/company, and it's usually obvious in the form of a discussion such as this one.
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Cheese and Rice. I thought I made good money hauling pipeline equipment till I talked to a pipeline welder. Was blown away.
Pipeliners make a LOT of money.
I tried it for a month and couldn't do it.
That one month wreaked HELL on my mental levels, my family relationships, etc.
It's a lifestyle you have to adapt to. Always on the road, always away from home, all that money and no time to spend it.
BUT, if money is the objective, the pipeline will give it!
Pipeliners make a LOT of money.
I tried it for a month and couldn't do it.
That one month wreaked HELL on my mental levels, my family relationships, etc.
It's a lifestyle you have to adapt to. Always on the road, always away from home, all that money and no time to spend it.
BUT, if money is the objective, the pipeline will give it!
Facts..every pipeliner I have ever known leaves married and ends up divorced and sleeping in a different motel every week. Most women say they want a hard working man until they get a hard working man then he's a screw up of a man and she sleeps with the neighbor.
I was one who moved their equipment. I was only needed 4 to 6 months a year before I went home. The pipeliners I ran with, were never home.
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