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Old 12-20-2007, 09:59 PM   #21
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Techs in this market make a hell of a lot more than $20K, journeyman scale is $24.85 flat rate, and bodymen at least can easily flag 2.0 hours per clock hour, so they effectively make $50/hr. Mechanical stuff has been time-studied to death so it's tougher for a mechanical tech to make big bucks.
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Old 12-21-2007, 10:24 AM   #22
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not for an out of tech school noob , we start em at 10 an hour for a couple of years
flat rate doesn' t suck when you got work , which is rare these days , 25 bucks an hour at 20 hours for da week
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Old 12-21-2007, 06:40 PM   #23
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My apprentices make $12ish hourly to start, if they have any sort of talent and work ethic they quickly creep up to $20/hr flat rate. My top body man routinely runs 125 hrs a week, I have a 2 man paint team that flags 350 hrs combined, weekly, on a regular basis. Just have to be in a shop that stays busy.
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