come on bender thats an extreme case and you know it
Most of us plumber probably earn between 30 and 40k per year, and thats after gaining years of experiance AND working all the hours god gives.
I have tried to earn more but never have. If I am working on site for lets say four weeks or so I will reduce my hourly rate to about 22 phr and would expect to earn 200 per day, I know that chippies earn more per day, sparkies about the same, brickies probably a bit more if they can lay fast enough.
bare in mind that will not mean I am on site earning for those four weeks, first fix **** ups etc second fix nightmare, we have all been there.
I have had a look though my book from JIB and that reckons that the hourly rate for an experiance technically trained plumber should be approx 21.50 per hour plus subsistance.
to be trained to that level took me seven years of grunt work, which included a lot of labouring to make ends meet.
so you think we are worth ten pound per hour, decent proven competent plumbers are trained to at least graduate level now (but then they are going to start calling degrees clitorus' from now on I will leave you to guess why ) with the ongoing vocational training we HAVE to undergo, we may be the most highly paid trade but we are also the most REGULATED AND INSPECTED trade (well up untill really recently we were thos poor sparkies lol) so why the hell should this education, training regulations etc not be reflected in a higher rate???
you have a touch of the sour grapes mate (I am an engineer I have a degree I am worth sooooo much more than a scum sucking working class piece of **** plumber) but you perception of us and our trade is outdated and wrong
Most of us plumber probably earn between 30 and 40k per year, and thats after gaining years of experiance AND working all the hours god gives.
I have tried to earn more but never have. If I am working on site for lets say four weeks or so I will reduce my hourly rate to about 22 phr and would expect to earn 200 per day, I know that chippies earn more per day, sparkies about the same, brickies probably a bit more if they can lay fast enough.
bare in mind that will not mean I am on site earning for those four weeks, first fix **** ups etc second fix nightmare, we have all been there.
I have had a look though my book from JIB and that reckons that the hourly rate for an experiance technically trained plumber should be approx 21.50 per hour plus subsistance.
to be trained to that level took me seven years of grunt work, which included a lot of labouring to make ends meet.
so you think we are worth ten pound per hour, decent proven competent plumbers are trained to at least graduate level now (but then they are going to start calling degrees clitorus' from now on I will leave you to guess why ) with the ongoing vocational training we HAVE to undergo, we may be the most highly paid trade but we are also the most REGULATED AND INSPECTED trade (well up untill really recently we were thos poor sparkies lol) so why the hell should this education, training regulations etc not be reflected in a higher rate???
you have a touch of the sour grapes mate (I am an engineer I have a degree I am worth sooooo much more than a scum sucking working class piece of **** plumber) but you perception of us and our trade is outdated and wrong