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Electricians' Earnings. Is it Really So?

Electricians. We are just so well off.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/news/article-7653631/Are-wrong-job-Electricians-never-earned-make-70k-year.html

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0 Roy Bowdler over 5 years ago

In my “corporate” career, I started as an apprentice in a nationalised industry and worked “on the tools”, before swapping blue for white, or “coming into the office” as it would have been known in the second part of my career working as a Head Office Manager. With each “promotion” the basic package of benefits increased, but the expectation to “do whatever was necessary” also increased with it. Whereas people “on the tools” were paid hourly, with the opportunity for enhanced overtime rates and in the case of the company I was a manager for, a lucrative productivity based bonus scheme.

I don’t spend my time measuring Electricians earnings, but I live in a prosperous “upwardly mobile” area near London. The mix of my immediate neighbourhood includes a relatively high proportion of self-employed people, including Electricians, Plumbers, Builders (including a film-set builder) etc. mixed with “white collar professionals”, including quite a few commuters. I know more or less what some of them earn and most are at least competitive with a Tube Driver, perhaps in good years ahead. However many of the late career people (including me), probably couldn’t afford to live in the area on the basis of current mortgage/rent to income multiples. I moved there from West Yorkshire many years ago and grew up in the West Midlands. Regional differences can be very pronounced and the M1 is full of white vans on Monday mornings and Friday afternoons.

A google search led me here https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2018/12/16/no-london-underground-tube-drivers-are-not-earning-100000/
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0 Roy Bowdler over 5 years ago

In my “corporate” career, I started as an apprentice in a nationalised industry and worked “on the tools”, before swapping blue for white, or “coming into the office” as it would have been known in the second part of my career working as a Head Office Manager. With each “promotion” the basic package of benefits increased, but the expectation to “do whatever was necessary” also increased with it. Whereas people “on the tools” were paid hourly, with the opportunity for enhanced overtime rates and in the case of the company I was a manager for, a lucrative productivity based bonus scheme.

I don’t spend my time measuring Electricians earnings, but I live in a prosperous “upwardly mobile” area near London. The mix of my immediate neighbourhood includes a relatively high proportion of self-employed people, including Electricians, Plumbers, Builders (including a film-set builder) etc. mixed with “white collar professionals”, including quite a few commuters. I know more or less what some of them earn and most are at least competitive with a Tube Driver, perhaps in good years ahead. However many of the late career people (including me), probably couldn’t afford to live in the area on the basis of current mortgage/rent to income multiples. I moved there from West Yorkshire many years ago and grew up in the West Midlands. Regional differences can be very pronounced and the M1 is full of white vans on Monday mornings and Friday afternoons.

A google search led me here https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2018/12/16/no-london-underground-tube-drivers-are-not-earning-100000/
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