What does an Electrician earn?
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What yearly/day/hour rate are electricians on? I'm interested more in those doing commercial site work, full time employed or full time subing. South east based. This is a starting position, not a forman or someone senior.
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Edited by megaphone on Friday 13th November 15:21
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
Networkgeek said:
Hey Mortgage_tom
Interesting you say this. I've been looking at retraining and I've found trying to find companies for learning a trade to be a real mix.
Some companies are scammy and others don't really work when the student needs to work fulltime. It's unfortunate my local colleges don't run night courses anymore for retraining.
My career to date has been in IT for the last 11 years and I'm so bored of it.
What do you do in 'IT'? Switch to infrastructure installation, running CAT cables and fibres, patch bays etc. 'Similar' work to electrical, no qualifications needed. Interesting you say this. I've been looking at retraining and I've found trying to find companies for learning a trade to be a real mix.
Some companies are scammy and others don't really work when the student needs to work fulltime. It's unfortunate my local colleges don't run night courses anymore for retraining.
My career to date has been in IT for the last 11 years and I'm so bored of it.
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