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Get a job with the local power company, or one of their contractors. You will have to work in bad weather, after storms, and travel a little bit. The average s

Get a job with the local power company, or one of their contractors. You will have to work in bad weather, after storms, and travel a little bit. The average salary for a journeyman lineman in Michigan is $161,000 per year

stonogo 4y ago
No it isn't. You cherry-picked that single report, which was based on 76 turbotax returns. I suspect their data is wrong or corrupted, because making $160k as a journeyman lineman is only achievable with a decade experience and a truckload of overtime. Look around a bit further, or talk to actual linemen or unions, and you'll see the average salary for a lineman is about a hundred thousand dollars a year less than that. https://www.salary.com/research/salary/alternate/journeyman-lineman-salary/mi https://www.salary.com/research/salary/alternate/journeyman-... https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/DTE-Energy-Journeyman-Lineman-Michigan-Salaries-EJI_IE199.0,10_KO11,29_IL.30,38_IS527.htm https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/DTE-Energy-Journeyman-Linem... https://www.linemancentral.com/states/michigan https://www.linemancentral.com/states/michigan
- bluedino 4y ago
  Read some Reddit posts where people ask linemen how much they make. People reply with over $200k.
  - Tokkemon 4y ago
    Yeah, because that's more reliable data.
  - hotpotamus 4y ago
    Have you considered that they may not be telling the truth?
    - bluedino 4y ago
      I know a lot of linemen and they do pretty well. $70k would be zero overtime. Do you think they don't earn 30-40 per hour and have the ability to make tons of overtime? The power company pays office workers time and a half to do "line watch" where they just park by a downed power line with a light on their roof until a crew shows up to fix it.
  - stonogo 4y ago
    I don't feel the need to read Reddit, since I worked as a lineman for several years. It's possible to make bank in all kinds of trades, but that is absolutely not the norm, or even the average.
  - AngryData 4y ago
    Tradesmen are some of the first people to inflate their actual wage because otherwise they not only have a "lower class" career, but they are also not doing as well as everyone else and it makes them feel like shit. I would not accept their personal anecdotes over documented tax returns.

stonogo 4y ago

No it isn't. You cherry-picked that single report, which was based on 76 turbotax returns. I suspect their data is wrong or corrupted, because making $160k as a journeyman lineman is only achievable with a decade experience and a truckload of overtime. Look around a bit further, or talk to actual linemen or unions, and you'll see the average salary for a lineman is about a hundred thousand dollars a year less than that. https://www.salary.com/research/salary/alternate/journeyman-lineman-salary/mi https://www.salary.com/research/salary/alternate/journeyman-... https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/DTE-Energy-Journeyman-Lineman-Michigan-Salaries-EJI_IE199.0,10_KO11,29_IL.30,38_IS527.htm https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/DTE-Energy-Journeyman-Linem... https://www.linemancentral.com/states/michigan https://www.linemancentral.com/states/michigan

bluedino 4y ago
Read some Reddit posts where people ask linemen how much they make. People reply with over $200k.
- Tokkemon 4y ago
  Yeah, because that's more reliable data.
- hotpotamus 4y ago
  Have you considered that they may not be telling the truth?
  - bluedino 4y ago
    I know a lot of linemen and they do pretty well. $70k would be zero overtime. Do you think they don't earn 30-40 per hour and have the ability to make tons of overtime? The power company pays office workers time and a half to do "line watch" where they just park by a downed power line with a light on their roof until a crew shows up to fix it.
- stonogo 4y ago
  I don't feel the need to read Reddit, since I worked as a lineman for several years. It's possible to make bank in all kinds of trades, but that is absolutely not the norm, or even the average.
- AngryData 4y ago
  Tradesmen are some of the first people to inflate their actual wage because otherwise they not only have a "lower class" career, but they are also not doing as well as everyone else and it makes them feel like shit. I would not accept their personal anecdotes over documented tax returns.