Apparently electricians are earning over 150k a year!!

[Dave OCD]

Labour only at that price I assume Tel ?

 

[telectrix]

Labour only at that price I assume Tel ?

well, of course. builder supplies all the cheap crap equipment.

 

[Dave OCD]

Just starting to 2nd fix a new build tomorrow, this chap wanted to get the materials but was happy to use my choice, also fitted all the boxes for me and they're spot on,also thoroughly cleaned of plaster, a rare thing indeed !

 

[JackSparky]

Main word 'apparently'

 

[andyb]

The truth is the article is a secret pro eu story as no doubt it will be followed with one saying how we wont cope without foreign tradesmen.

If you think that, you've never read the Daily Mail.

 

[Squid]

Hmmm who wants to go halves in opening up a sparks school in Poland running Five Week Wonder Courses?

Screw working for a living, we can get an article in the DM.

 

[Guitarist]

Apparently some contract firms are charging £3k per week for their electricians on certain high level projects. Multiply this by 52 (as we all work 52 weeks per year) and you get "electricians earn £156k per year". Must be great to live in a world where logic is so simple.

 

[telectrix]

our local Ford dealer charges £80/hour + VAT. the mechanic gets £15/hour. some idiot can't allow for overheads and profit.

 

[JK-Electrical]

If ever there was a vivid example of fake news, this is it.

I would be an extremely happy guy if I could earn even a third of that amount!

 

[holychihuahua]

The scrap price of Iron has Just gone in to outer space again £170 a tonne. So a medium size 4 door car with alloys will scrap as £40 the alloys, £40 the cat, and £150 the steel. A total of £210. So four carjacks over eight hours pays £840 a day.In a five day week £4200. So a 52 week year minus 6 weeks holidays gives £193200 per annum.
So £150000 a year for the honest toil of a concientious tradesman does not seam unreasonable to me.