What does an Electrician earn?
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AJS- said:
schmunk said:
AJS- said:
Wacky Racer said:
bearman68 said:
Shocked at what you guys earn. Are you Positive? 
Stop being so negative. Does the question relate to current earnings or potential earnings? We've had a battery of posts with positive, negative, and neutral suggestions. However I think some electricians charge too much, simply because they have the power and it can be a shock for the consumer (unit)resulting in a surge of resistance.
jonah35 said:
Sump said:
jonah35 said:
Mate of mine is 28 and earns about £2k per week, £400 per day ish but has gets money by also referring other trades etc.
He's having you on.Is that too much for an electrician? I know plumbers in London earning more.
We install fire alarms and the subby electricians we use are £150 max. Thats for central london too! Any higher and its not worthwhile for us (prefer to pay others more to do a longer day if needs be)
Any sparks that says they earn £1000s a week, i simply dont believe, for every guy that charges £250 a day, theres one willing to do it for £240 and so on and so on where by the time you get down to £110ish you soon start to hire the bad ones so £150 for us gives the goodens.
Again to earn £1000s a week you need to be hitting some mega profitable price work consistently which A, wont happen B. average joe wont pay,.... C. This isnt a job Where you can control your earnings like a stockbroker or similar. A job will take a set amout of hours and no sparks can do enough work in a week to make that £1000 unless he makes himself ill doung stupid hours.
£30-40,000 is the average in my view
Any sparks that says they earn £1000s a week, i simply dont believe, for every guy that charges £250 a day, theres one willing to do it for £240 and so on and so on where by the time you get down to £110ish you soon start to hire the bad ones so £150 for us gives the goodens.
Again to earn £1000s a week you need to be hitting some mega profitable price work consistently which A, wont happen B. average joe wont pay,.... C. This isnt a job Where you can control your earnings like a stockbroker or similar. A job will take a set amout of hours and no sparks can do enough work in a week to make that £1000 unless he makes himself ill doung stupid hours.
£30-40,000 is the average in my view
Sump said:
marked1 said:
jonah35 said:
Mate of mine is 28 and earns about £2k per week, £400 per day ish but has gets money by also referring other trades etc.
100 grand salary a year does sound a bit optimistic.....What figure would you like me to say? Does £200 per day including material profits and including money he passes work to suit you?
Royce44 said:
We install fire alarms and the subby electricians we use are £150 max. Thats for central london too! Any higher and its not worthwhile for us (prefer to pay others more to do a longer day if needs be)
Any sparks that says they earn £1000s a week, i simply dont believe, for every guy that charges £250 a day, theres one willing to do it for £240 and so on and so on where by the time you get down to £110ish you soon start to hire the bad ones so £150 for us gives the goodens.
Again to earn £1000s a week you need to be hitting some mega profitable price work consistently which A, wont happen B. average joe wont pay,.... C. This isnt a job Where you can control your earnings like a stockbroker or similar. A job will take a set amout of hours and no sparks can do enough work in a week to make that £1000 unless he makes himself ill doung stupid hours.
£30-40,000 is the average in my view
Thanks.Any sparks that says they earn £1000s a week, i simply dont believe, for every guy that charges £250 a day, theres one willing to do it for £240 and so on and so on where by the time you get down to £110ish you soon start to hire the bad ones so £150 for us gives the goodens.
Again to earn £1000s a week you need to be hitting some mega profitable price work consistently which A, wont happen B. average joe wont pay,.... C. This isnt a job Where you can control your earnings like a stockbroker or similar. A job will take a set amout of hours and no sparks can do enough work in a week to make that £1000 unless he makes himself ill doung stupid hours.
£30-40,000 is the average in my view
Maintenance electricians if in the right place can earn really good money- but that's a different ball game to wiring houses and the like.
1st line breakdown cover investigation and resolution - ensuring the breakdown doesn't impact production. Car assembly lines ? check what maintenance electricians earn at Nissan or Toyota
•Maintenance Technician salary with 4 shift premium
Starting from £38,539
•Controller/Engineer/Supervisor salaries
£35,068 - £51,485
£1000 a week ? £52,000 a year - that is achievable in the trades if your willing to do overtime and have to participate in on call rotas.
One area that can bring in good money is in data centre technicians - different ball game these places and if your in a good company with decent opportunities you could be pushing well into the £1000 a week average by the time you take into consideration on call overtime and bonus along with yearly performance targets etc.
1st line breakdown cover investigation and resolution - ensuring the breakdown doesn't impact production. Car assembly lines ? check what maintenance electricians earn at Nissan or Toyota
•Maintenance Technician salary with 4 shift premium
Starting from £38,539
•Controller/Engineer/Supervisor salaries
£35,068 - £51,485
£1000 a week ? £52,000 a year - that is achievable in the trades if your willing to do overtime and have to participate in on call rotas.
One area that can bring in good money is in data centre technicians - different ball game these places and if your in a good company with decent opportunities you could be pushing well into the £1000 a week average by the time you take into consideration on call overtime and bonus along with yearly performance targets etc.
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