@@convusquey2559 do they have a union. A coalition of the workers to assure pay and rights. Workers come together and collectively Bargain or negotiate with the capital owners. It usually is a good indicator that the job has decent benefits and pay.
Here in Arizona, if you make $26 an hour, 40 hours a week, that’s $1,040 without any taxes being taken away. An ok apartment is around $1,600+ a month. With car insurance, food, rent or mortgage, utilities, gas, and other expenses. I’d consider anything $30 an hour poverty 😭. An “ok” house in my area is easily $400k and about 45+years old.
@@chilolo1418yeah but you get roommates, when you make great money you get the choice to live by yourself. getting just 1 roommate would easily save you the amount of money to cover all your other expenses.
@@dommysprite3771Currently work in the trades, live in Arizona, live with two roommates and still scrape to make savings. I’m an apprentice sparky and I firsthand say we don’t pay trades enough I don’t even have loans but my rent and utilities cripple me because of the shitty landlords here
They told me “pretty quick” at the company I work for now. Start off at $18 an hour and max out at $38 an hour for a regular worker. It takes about 3 years to max out with perfect attendance. They go by hours. After so many hours worked, you get a $1.40 raise until you max. Im a foreman so my position maxes out about $60 an hour. We also get a decant amount for perdium so that helps. I work for a concrete company btw.
@@iicordii648 I’ve seen with my own eyes a 5’3” security guard at Bellevue Washington McDonald’s. Pulling in $52 an hour. Fuck you. Fuck the slow grind. Fuck being a slave. He got that as starting pay with experience. Fuck all businesses. It’s not fair. Not even close.
No they don't lol, Walmart and Sam's club pays good tho, usually at least 15 starting. But the pay roof is probably 30 for management and you ain't gunna do that forever
@@jaysrt21 Talked with the maintenance guy at McDonald's back in early 2020. He had a company truck (take home), free food, $60k year (base), and zero fucks. I don't think he minded it at all 🤣
@@mmmd3429 I worked maintenance for them and I promise you that you don't get any of those things you said besides free food. He must have been 3rd party maintenance for them.
😂 difference is no trade starts that early since there’s codes and regulations to working in the dark, and you can’t work in a storm. I started digging holes for 17.25 and yeah it sucked, two years later I make 27$ an hour and with the knowledge I gained I can easily see myself making much more in the coming years
Very old school forman right there to answer your questions & not throw a hissy fit that you were interrupting his work day by asking questions and recording him....much respect to you both for being able to carry on a conversation among strangers without conflict.
I completely agree. At first, I believe, he was protecting his guy and job sight. Once he determined there wasn't a threat he was very open and forthcoming.
@@TheRealObama420 I work for a really small company that buys homes and flips them. I go in and demo what they don’t like such as removing carpets, trim, flooring, cabinets etc… Then I install at my pace and whatever else gets contracted out and I have to supervise them.
@@cjswhitebo1882 “up to $30 is the worst thing you can hear.” No tf it’s not lmao 😂😂. Yea I guess depending where you live and if you think you’re a millionaire when you’re not it is.
I'm an industrial mechanic. To start, I made 24. After my probationary period I was at 26. I just hit my 1 year mark and got a raise. I'm now making 29.72.
Same here! I started as an Industrial mechanic at 18 an hour now I’m making 24 in about 6 months working there. I recently got hired at another job with union starting at 33 an hour.
I heard the pay is amazing but I had a friend who got both his hands blown off from some factory from a gas leak and it really doesn't make me want to go to that field at all, what's worse is he was only 19years old when it happened
I started at 15. Got another offer for 17 but it was in the hood and reaked heavily of chlorine so i passed. I went to school to become a mechanic too. These blue collar jobs aren't worth it. Everyone talks about how you make this and that but you really don't, at least I didn't. Even after 2 years experience i only got offered 20 . And the bosses are some of the worst people. Did food delivery after that and made 20 per hour on the busy days first day working. Doing like half the work and frustration
He probably thought it was safety or some kind of site auditor. Call them bossman and bigdawg, and they'll usually let you off with a verbal warning. Be an ass to the guy holding a phone or clipboard, and you'll be sitting in remedial presentation tomorrow morning, and start/finish work late.
@@farkmuckerzerg634 if you go Union you get to keep your awesome health insurance when you retire... There's more benefits than just a paycheck. Everyone loves double time
But your not on the clock all the time. So only 2-3 hrs assignments then gap and then another job. What's ur yearly and how many hrs per week do you work
And you’re stuck in that position forever haha. See this is the downfall with my generation. Y’all can’t seem to see anything in the future. You see what can easily benefit you in the moment. Kinda nice tho cause it makes getting hired easy when I’m competing against guys like you 😂😂
Im a automotive technician, our pay is $16-$18/H here in Maryland. We also get offered flat rate, but that requires you to work faster, and harder. Its not worth it most of the time
@@joebaby1975 $16-$18 isnt enough to live and do the things you want. im living paycheck to paycheck at $15/H. things are getting more and more expensive
I just stumbled on this guy and what a great source for helping people of thinking what they might want to do or switch into. Asks all the right questions. He’s not going up to millionaires asking what kind of car they’re driving. This helps blue collar hard workers. Not to mention high schoolers looking for ideas after they graduate. Nice job man.
Hey man I appreciate you going out there and asking the questions we’d all like to ask these people. Gives us more insight if we want to start one of these careers
@@Tre16 it’s conveniently in a short RU-vid reel that I can watch and listen to as opposed to looking up all this information. Also it shows people jobs they might might overlook or forget about or might not even know about. So funny lol
@@hankhill3417 idk about 30 an hour. I’m an apprentice glazier barely making 18 right now and I’m in California. Most apprentice jobs I’ve seen start at 17-20 but if you’re an apprentice you should just be looking for experience and the pay will come
Lmao I get hush hush weekly pay doing the same line of work. Shit pay, but no trail for big brother to know about and I basically get paid to sit in my car and get high at night 😂
Real utilities are electric. I'm a lineman. I make 87 an hour, 2-4k a month for housing, all overtime is double time. 100% covered health care, dental, and vision. My wife is a nurse and she can't even get health care at her hospital as good as mine. 100% match on 401k, get a pension, life insurance, 3-4 weeks paid vacation a year, 2 weeks paid sick a year, paid holidays, 2 weeks emergency leave a year, 3.75% cost of living raise every year. I mean it's a pretty phenomenal job.
@@kevincondon3206 you gotta know someone, mostly kids who has daddy money and was given this position because of there parents. If you wanna get into it go to school (4-5 years) get your CDL A and apply for a lineman.
@@doom3380 not at Target but you can Make up $24 to $30 in some retail stores depending on area in my area you can get to $20s at Lowe’s after one year and my state isn’t even a good paying state
What about insurance and retirement? I have retirement and my insurance is 95% covered, which is equivalent to an additional $8 an hour for that alone ontop of $40/hr as a state worker. Gotta think of everything else, not just hourly wage
@@tuukkatuukka if there is no strike thay are private contractors I usto rent my dump truck out to the electric or gas or the city we would do one job sometimes 2 when I worked for private contractors we would do 3 to 5 jobs in the same time with the same amount of guys . When I worked with city dump trucks on jobs they would do one job and go hide and sleep .
I started at $25/hr at 18 years old with no experience as an apprentice/ground hand. once training is complete and you work on the utility poles as a lineman/fiber tech you can see anywhere from $30-$40/hr. Supervisors make more. this is in the New England area.
Went to school for hvac, service tech for 5 years. Money was fantastic, but my health was degrading and social life was nomore. Quit and went to a manufacturing refrigeration company that pays well but of course not as much as the field but most importantly I had a life and a family to go home to. The trades are a different working environment, kudos to the ones that last 10+ years. 👏
I did hvac for 2 years, gained 40 pounds, girlfriend dumped me, had no energy or motivation, barley showered, hated my life, now I do land surveying, I still hate my life and can’t get a girl to talk to me but at least I have energy when I get home to sit at my desk and play video games wishing I was dead👍🏻 don’t go into the trades kids
I seriously appreciate this type of insight for jobs. I’ve found the automotive repair industry pays right around the same wages as this one in the video.
At&t pays their Telephone Lineman around 43-47 an hour in California. Depending on the area. The Electrical Lineman can make more than that. For example, S.C. Edison pays their Lineman around 35-70 an hour, depending if they are a groundman, apprentice, utility, journeyman or a foreman. The term Lineman was first used by the Telephone Lineman and then by the Electrical Lineman. Today the cable tv companies also have Lineman placing cable. A Lineman is basically a worker that can place a power or telecommunications line.
@@TheRealObama420sign the books at local 47 in riverside ca or local 1245 up north Vacaville ca(you’ll get work way faster up north), get your class a , osha 10 et&d, and first aid cpr.. climbing school helps but you don’t need it to sign the outside line books
@@TheRealObama420 cost like 260 to sign the books for 6 months and you’ll be placed on book 4 and keep resigning and paying your dues every 6 months and you’ll work your way down the books and then you’ll make a killing I recommend it to everyone…and the union groundman make 47 a hour and all overtime is double time and there’s plenty of ot I tell you !
Wow this is such great info, I’ve been at my job for nearly 17 years doin building maintenance and looking to relocate down south and these info u post are awesome thank you, I’m definitely changing occupation
These jobs always start you off with lower pay so they can make you stay longer. If all these jobs payed $30 an hour starting with no experience, then everybody would just work for a while and quit. Think about it, wouldn't you stay in a job that'll double your income in a few years.
That’s insane. I drive Uber/Lyft. I made $240 today in 8 hours with a lunch break. 200 after cost of fuel. Just drove around and met cool people. I feel like these dudes need to make a lot more for the work they do
I work for a small contracting company (consists of me and 4 other guys, 2 of which are my bosses) and I do something called “Ls6 audits” on cell tower sites. (Those towers with the blinking lights u see at night) we get work from Verizon directly. We get sent huge maps filled with hundreds of cell tower sites that need auditing. Basically, at these sites, I simply take a couple hundred pictures of the compounds and equipment within them, then measure out and draw the compounds to scale. I Then gather a little bit of visual info at each site and send it all to my boss man thru an app we use. I stay gone about 3 weeks out of every month and everyday that I’m gone, I work. 10 hours a day, everyday, til it’s time to come home for a week. I’d say the job is split roughly between 40% actually doing the audits, and 60% of the time it’s just driving to these sites. I get paid $30/hr, get $400 perdium every week, get bonuses pretty consistently, and even have my own truck and a company card I use for gas. 23 years old and I’m bringing in close to 7k a month at some points.
@@jonathanbraud5648 as far as I know the general purpose for what I’m doing is so they can have up to date templates made of the current sites in case they decide to add equipment to it and to figure if there’s even any room to do so. But yeah, mostly it’s so they can have updated templates.
He forgot to mention that most of the time when it comes to utility work, it’s Hurry Up and Wait. You get paid just to sit in the cab of your truck waiting for the go ahead to do your job. And if your lucky, the company will send you to do a job that will only take 20 minutes to do, but you’ll still get a full 8 hours of pay to do it.
I looked at the info from the DMV for a class A you just need to study and memorize everything just like you did for your driver's license. Once you got it and know it you are done. But a lot of those truck drivers say don't do it. I drove 1,000 miles once in a day from the tip of l Florida to Virginia and I found it to be really really hard on my body's nerves, perhaps because when you are driving you are always watching, unable to properly give eyes and mind a break unless stopped somewhere. Also you must be fully aware of how much you should be paying out of pocket as companies will take advantage of the new.
Damn that is some serious good pay especially for in AZ. I’ve noticed that there’s a huge difference in how much you can get paid from the west coast as to the east coast and it’s a huge difference.
Im a union painter make 43$ an hr with benefits but still feelz like nothing but when you started making with 8$ an hr to now 43$ definitely a wonder feelin #UnionMoney
I've been a class A holder for 10 years and been in a truck for 12. 2 years with a class b. You can't go wrong with them As. I've been on sooooo many roads I could tell u alot. BUT I could know everything. U learn mew things out here everyday. And that is a adventure within self. Getchu some!
Utilities are no joke. Seriously dangerous stuff. I did a damage investigation where a contractor ripped through both a gas and electric service line at the same time... There were 30+ft flames gushing from the side of the building. Morale of the story, call before you dig guys. Calling for a locate and waiting for it can save a life, or a couple of lives. Ik this clip was of linemen working on aerial lines, but it surprises me how many people don't even know what utility locators are, or that you can even get your utilities located... If your contractor doesn't call in a locate to install your fence, your pool, whatever, get a new contractor. I've seen some utilities in dumb areas. There was a 60-100PSI high pressure gas main that just cut straight through a rural driveway. I don't even want to imagine what could've happened if they got some work done around there without a locate 😔
let me know what you do for a living and if you're hiring? I'm in Illinois i'm 19 highly motivated with a decent resume I work as a flooring sales rep and trade stocks I only make $16.25 an hour and struggling
I was watching this and I was like, "wait, I know that place". This is in Fountain Valley, California on Elis Ave in-between Ward and the 405. I used to work on this block.
Nice to have people saying what they wages realy are and not exaggerating like so many people do. Just give people accurate information and let them make a choice.
@@TODD-KOBELL out of curiosity, how old are you? I work in building automation now and got out of the HVAC trade because literally every mechanic or electrician I worked with had a body that was breaking down.
@@EJD339 get into utility testing. I test substations and industrial switchgear. No cable pulls or anything physical like that, mostly testing and troubleshooting. Most physical part usually is climbing a ladder up a transformer or breaking apart connections, and half the time there's a line crew and bucket truck to help you
When someone doesn't tell you how much they pay usually its cause its crap. Pretty good money?. Class A?. 18 bucks an hour?. Glad to see they are competing with mcdonalds and burger King
I work for an electrical utility in Texas. Helper with no experience start around $25 an hour, apprentices somewhere around $31 with a raise every six months after passing an exam showing mastery over the subject matter for that six months. After 3 years, or 6 six month periods you become a journeyman. They are around $48 an hour. This is all union, IBEW. Good pay and benefits for Texas.
I went from making $13 an hour to $21 an hour in less than 2 years. I love what I do. So happy I chose this path. It’s hard work but it’s feel good she’s work.
wow I’m 20 and i make $28, I dropped out of high school and everyone thought I’d fail… now I’m laughing because I have 0 debt and I’m younger than most college graduates and I get paid good money to do what I love, I love the trades!
Stay with it my man. I got expelled at the beginning of 10th grade and everyone thought I’d be dead or in jail. I’m now 30, have a 3yo son an a 1yo daughter, foreman at my company makin well over $1k weekly with $50 a day perdium for a 30 min drive, and livin my best life. I also had my evaluation today for a raise so I’m not even sure what I’ll be makin next week lmao. All I got was “let me see how much I can get you” so hopefully I’ll get a nice lil raise again. The kids I went to school with are makin half the pay with degrees lol. People fuckin hate when they think you’re going to fail and you end up passing everyone up and exceeding far beyond everyone’s expectations. Keep grindin, you’ll be makin more than that in no time. Also, $28 an hour at 20 years old is fuckin awesome. You’re out here doin the damn thing
Good luck I was like that 20years old makes $31 hr labors Union in Chicago now I’m waste management and I’m 39 I wish I would’ve gone to school as you get old you regret not going to school putting with a lot bs on work some time wish you the best of luck
I’m 18 going on 19 here shortly, Currently doing traffic control setup. This consist of setting up signs x3 your hight and overall body weight along highway traffic. I have genuinely almost been hit by semi trucks and cars failing to yield or give room 4 times this week, unfortunately a fellow employee was struck and killed last Tuesday as a result. Not to mention if the sign falls the wrong way it could seriously be very very bad. Yes we drop them sometimes because of the weather and wind from vehicles but we manage, we safely guide the sign luckily and nothing has happened. Not all days are on the freeway luckily. Unfortunately this job is dangerous but I’m never going back to fast food.
Truth is, some of you will be stuck getting paid under 20$ an hour, so don’t be afraid to explore and venture out into some new opportunities, you’re already wasting your time making little money so what’s the harm
30yrs ago I worked for a sub company like that as a ground guy. It was fun mostly. Get to the site & super would show up & twist it up & we would run fiber lines. Sometimes we would do like this & pull the lasher but mostly my lineman would be in the bucket & I would drive him along the poles with the lasher hooked to the bucket.
When I was 13 I had a friend say I wont work for less than 15 bucks and hour back then I thought he was crazy.... now we charge ppl a minimum of 45 an hour to talk and then when the tools come out we take ppls savings. Thank you my guy for nailing in self worth at such a young age.
Aye i allreciate bim for not being hostile asf cause i work forklift for 25 asked a dude to switch and if he cluld show me the ropes turned i to a straight ass i almost smacked the shit outta him 😅
I make $31 an hour as a plumber in California from my first job and it’s nothing I can’t afford to live off of that which is why I have to work a second shift at McDonald’s at $17 an hour it’s just insane how expensive cost of living is
Bruh get into a union. That’s your problem. And if you are really a plumber I doubt you’d work at McDonald’s because just like the guy mentioned you’d be doing side jobs
@@marley1995 it’s a 3 year wait to get into a union and they expect me to drive to there office 2 times per month which is 1 hour and a half from where I live to report myself so they can see that I still want the job and if I can’t make it I get moved back to the end of the waiting line again fuck all that bullshit I can’t be missing work like that and it’s not that easy getting side jobs man people ask you for your contractors license and insurance which is not cheap because plumbing is a high risk job where a lot of things can go wrong and home owners want to make sure damages will get covered but it’s alright man keep talking out your ass when you have no idea of how things work plus why would I quit McDonald’s? It’s easy as shit and we were just told that we will all be getting a raise to $22 an hour starting next year no reason to quit people try to bash on McDonald’s workers while most of them are making more money then people working in retail and warehouses
