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Do you have a source for plumbers being on par with psychiatrists? I have friends in the trades (back in Australia) and my impression is that their pay isn't as
by strken 7y ago
Do you have a source for plumbers being on par with psychiatrists? I have friends in the trades (back in Australia) and my impression is that their pay isn't as high as is commonly believed.
- heavyset_go 7y agoGoing to need a source, as well. Whenever these statistics are trotted out, they use figures from a few standard deviations to the right of the mean income, where the trades-person is usually self-employed at their own business that employs many others.
- Balgair 7y agoThe point was not to talk about plumbers, it was to reference the meme, so as to remind/give the reader a baseline idea that manual labor is not valued as the work itself, but the supply/demand.
- mywittyname 7y agoThe Bureau of Labor statistics provides this information. Plumber median pay is $54,000, while 10% make more than $94,000. Psychiatrist median pay is $220,000, while 10% make beyond the wage cap for BLS data. https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes291066.htm https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes291066.htm
- cylinder 7y agoit's just like anything else. you need to be self employed and own a business that you've scaled out to earn the big money.