So when are they going to get the point That in 5 years you won't be making 50 or even 100k!!
$100K manufacturing jobs
$100K manufacturing jobs
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For what it is worth, some concrete information on this:
MSC is out of stock on Kurt 4" double vises!
That reaches down into the bowels of mfg. It eliminates most of the caterwauling about "lack of work".
Lee (the saw guy).
So when are they going to get the point That in 5 years you won't be making 50 or even 100k!!
$100K manufacturing jobs
Well just a comment on their math. $30/hr is what the article quoted the top machinist as earning. That is only $60K/yr. Sure toss in tons and tons of OT and you can get to $100K, but that doesn't sound like much fun. The real issue for me having gone the engineering route as all the shops were closing up, I would love to be a machinist. If the shops were paying $30/hr or even a bit less starting wage like they do for engineers I would be quite tempted myself. But to ask me now to go down to probably $15-$18/hr just isn't going to happen.
I have to think the laws of supply and demand must start hitting these shop owners in the face sooner or later. In my mind where I live $100K is what a seasoned professional of several years experience should make. $50K is what a junior professional should make.
How a company has a machinist run a $200K machine that he can easily crash and do severe damage, run parts that could be worth in some cases $100K and not want to pay a professional wage I just don't get.
I have to think that it won't take too many more of these shortage of machinist articles before the shop owners start realizing that they do have to start increasing the wages.
Well just a comment on their math. $30/hr is what the article quoted the top machinist as earning. That is only $60K/yr. Sure toss in tons and tons of OT and you can get to $100K, but that doesn't sound like much fun. The real issue for me having gone the engineering route as all the shops were closing up, I would love to be a machinist. If the shops were paying $30/hr or even a bit less starting wage like they do for engineers I would be quite tempted myself. But to ask me now to go down to probably $15-$18/hr just isn't going to happen.
I have to think the laws of supply and demand must start hitting these shop owners in the face sooner or later. In my mind where I live $100K is what a seasoned professional of several years experience should make. $50K is what a junior professional should make.
How a company has a machinist run a $200K machine that he can easily crash and do severe damage, run parts that could be worth in some cases $100K and not want to pay a professional wage I just don't get.
I have to think that it won't take too many more of these shortage of machinist articles before the shop owners start realizing that they do have to start increasing the wages.
From the article:
"Sedlak's top worker makes $30 an hour. And annual pay at his company ranges between $70,000 and $80,000 with overtime. In 31 years, only three workers have retired from his factory."
Ok, "top worker" is singular so maybe one guy makes $30 per hour. Only three retired but tell me how many layoffs have they had????
They tell you only what they want you to hear and expect you to fill in the rest with assumptions based upon the tone of the article.
ArkTinkerer
There will be demand, and perhaps it will be like truck drivers.
Radio ads, TV ads, and 3-4 pages of classified ads in the newspaper.
And for that 70 hour week, truck drivers get $45,000 a year.
And the compensation hasn't kept pace with inflation.
70 or 80k 'with overtime'....so, to make those numbers, the guy averaged 15 to 20 hours a week extra.....not my idea of 'getting ahead'
/snip/
I have no complaint about working the hours I do, because I live on 40 hours a week, and save the rest. If everyone did the same, our economy would be in even bigger trouble though.
I used to think the same way back when I first got into this trade. I'm betting that 15 or 20 years from now when your pay has doubled (at best) while the cost of living has tripled (or more) in that same time frame; and you're working 60 hour weeks just to scrape by, you might have a different feeling on it.
Back when I was coming of age (high school), I had the intelligence to go far ('accelerated' classes- do they still call them 'Regents'???, college-bound, etc).....instead, I went out of my way to learn welding, based my enlistment choice (Navy) based on the opportunity to learn machining/mechanical repairs, etc etc. I love what I do (as far as the work itself goes), but if my son ever comes to me and tells me he wants to follow in my footsteps and go into manufacturing? I'll beat his ass.
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