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If you want to use your hands and collaborate with humans a lot in person, the trades seem to be quite exciting right now. Salaries are also good — A good plumb

If you want to use your hands and collaborate with humans a lot in person, the trades seem to be quite exciting right now. Salaries are also good — A good plumber in our area makes nearly $800/hr, and that's not touching what the datacenter plumbing folks are making.

applied_heat 9mo ago
Where is that?
dmoy 9mo ago
Plumber makes $800/hr, or bills you are $800/hr? That's still quite good either way, but OP should understand that even in most expensive US cities a journeyman plumber is typically pulling at most like $150k-$200k without doing significant overtime. And you won't get there until 5++ years on the job. So think more like $100/hr of actual compensation on the higher end. Not a bad gig at all. But that $800 number comes with a lot of caveats.
isaacdl 9mo ago
Did you really mean 800/hr? Or is that a typo for 80/hr?
- win311fwg 9mo ago
  The more important question is: How many hours? My side gig pays around that, but there aren't many hours involved it in, and there isn't a good opportunity to find more hours, so it isn't all that much money at the end of the year. It is a tidy job for the effort required, but you wouldn't want to have to live off its income.
- schainks 9mo ago
  Not a typo. The good plumbers bill by $180-200 per 15 minutes. If they are independent, they take all of that home. If they are part of a larger company, they are still pocketing a significant portion of that billing depending on how the plumbing company operates.
- hattmall 9mo ago
  With 10 yrs experience and taking travel jobs to remote locations you MIGHT break $100 hr without OT. With North Slope experience you can get jobs that are paying ~70 with guaranteed OT so like you will crack $100 /hr but that's working winter in Alaska. Even offshore jobs aren't paying $100. No one is paying 800.
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applied_heat 9mo ago

Where is that?

dmoy 9mo ago

Plumber makes $800/hr, or bills you are $800/hr? That's still quite good either way, but OP should understand that even in most expensive US cities a journeyman plumber is typically pulling at most like $150k-$200k without doing significant overtime. And you won't get there until 5++ years on the job. So think more like $100/hr of actual compensation on the higher end. Not a bad gig at all. But that $800 number comes with a lot of caveats.

isaacdl 9mo ago

Did you really mean 800/hr? Or is that a typo for 80/hr?

win311fwg 9mo ago
The more important question is: How many hours? My side gig pays around that, but there aren't many hours involved it in, and there isn't a good opportunity to find more hours, so it isn't all that much money at the end of the year. It is a tidy job for the effort required, but you wouldn't want to have to live off its income.
schainks 9mo ago
Not a typo. The good plumbers bill by $180-200 per 15 minutes. If they are independent, they take all of that home. If they are part of a larger company, they are still pocketing a significant portion of that billing depending on how the plumbing company operates.
hattmall 9mo ago
With 10 yrs experience and taking travel jobs to remote locations you MIGHT break $100 hr without OT. With North Slope experience you can get jobs that are paying ~70 with guaranteed OT so like you will crack $100 /hr but that's working winter in Alaska. Even offshore jobs aren't paying $100. No one is paying 800.

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