Apparently electricians are earning over 150k a year!!

[Gavin John Hyde]

Just been shown a story on dailymail where some reporter is saying electricians are earning over 150k a year!!
What planet are they on?
Should anybody have info on employers paying electricians this much can you send me their address so i can apply.
I reckon some idiot has taken pimlicos 95 per hour and multiplied it by 40 x 52 or something daft.
Electricians are earning £156,000 a year | Daily Mail Online - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4874400/Electricians-earning-156-000-year.html
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.

 

[Octopus]

I suspect that the Daily Mail has the decimal point in the wrong place .............. £15 600 is probably more accurate!

 

[static zap]

...... I get a free DM when I shop in Waitrose with me loyalty card. Nothing posh about it

Except the rather large show of wines
(now designer beer is fighting back ..)
(If we are on about Waitrose )

 

[telectrix]

what in hell is designer beer? all my purchases have labels, some better designed than others.

 

[Midwest]

Except the rather large show of wines
(now designer beer is fighting back ..)
(If we are on about Waitrose )

Don't buy me wine from WR, too friggin expensive. SB is too friggin average. Tesco is just right. Sounds like a fairy tale

 

[telectrix]

15K /year is doable on new builds on price work. £900 per house, work 12 hour shifts, 4 in a week, pay 2 young lads min wage to do all the donkey work, someone else to do all the testing and paperwork.

 

[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.