If I was a tradie I think I'd be heading over to the Gordon Project. Minimum wage of $150,000 for unskilled workers. More if you have a trade behind you. Then there will be the inevitable shortage of tradies in the city and their wages also dramatically increase. The cycle is starting all over again.
My step father is a sparky and spent 5 months in Karratha last year working for an electrical mob up there...clearing 3 grand a week working 5 days a week with a company vehicle...needless to say he's going back next winter for another 5 months.
Real estate is very expensive up there in the desert.My step father is a sparky and spent 5 months in Karratha last year working for an electrical mob up there...clearing 3 grand a week working 5 days a week with a company vehicle...needless to say he's going back next winter for another 5 months.
Real estate is very expensive up there in the desert.
http://www.realestate.com.au/reales...+headland+port+hedland/zpcayz/page2/106227106
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I lived up there for a few months in winter in the mid 90's. Weather was nice as was the view from the sea-front split-level house in Port Hedland (Sutherland Street). The climate up there for most of the year however is extremely harsh, even on the coast.Yep .
Got a mate up there pulling in 3.5k /week .. got a mortgage in perth and paying 2.2k/week rent up in karratha..... after 2.2k PLUS his mortgage he would be just as well off working from the city and be with his family .... But hey it sounds nice.
5. I could become a tradesperson, but to take a paycut is not really an option I find appealing.
Just because they didn't spend 6 years smoking bongs and chasing skirt at uni doesn't mean they don't spend the best part of their life slogging out hard labour, the deserve all they earn
Are you simply being so arrogant that you feel because they don't have a UNI degree they should be on minimum wage.
I lived up there for a few months in winter in the mid 90's. Weather was nice as was the view from the sea-front split-level house in Port Hedland (Sutherland Street). The climate up there for most of the year however is extremely harsh, even on the coast.
Whoever located and designed South Hedland however should be put up against a wall, shot, propped up against the wall again and given another round. It has to be the second most awful place on earth (assuming there's somewhere else that's worse).
Investors in that market won't want China to stumble.
I have no problem paying whatever a tradesman charges AS LONG AS IT IS NOT GOVERNMENT SUBSIDISED.
ie I have no problem paying my mechanic or butcher, but hate paying too much for building tradies as they have received artificially propped up supply and demand due primarily John Howard's poor foresight and Kevin Rudd's plain stupidity.
Sad she committed suicide but at the same time she should have realised a rose does not flourish in the desert.The lady who designed South Hedland committed suicide many years ago. It's designed like a rose, so it is full of dead ends.
You just dont get it ..........
The propping up of the Building trade has ramifications on near on EVERY trade/occupation/business out there .right from the cleaner to the mechanic to the manufacturers to the tyre salesman to the tv repairman ......
They all making a part of there cash from a direct flow on from the stimulas and govverment subsidised building game........
But hey i didnt go to uni so what would i know.
I love this comment. Obviously you have never completed a medical degree. It is constant and makes the content of any other bachelor degree ( with the exceptions of dentistry and vet science ) seem laughable.
End of storey.
While the physical work may be hard it has historically been easier to learn a trade than a profession. It then stands to reason that tradies get paid less.
Anything else represents an economic imbalance.
I think you need some business training, you seem to think that the amount in which people charge per hour equals = Take home profit, This is simply untrue.
the chiro probally does charge $200 dollars an hour, but from this figure has to come rent of the building, electric, gas and phone bills, he probally has a receptionist who's hourly rate, holiday pay, super, sick days all have to come from the $200 fee,
Not to mention insurance, advertising, stationary, printer cartridges etc.etc.
The same is said for lawyers, mechanics, accountants, trades people and any other class where people complain about the high hourly fee.
I think tradies deserve their pay ( I am not a tradie ), alot of their work is hard yakka especially in summer. I don't want to be outside moving bricks around in the middle of summer, do you, thats hard work, so they deserve every thing they get.
At the end of the day we live in a free market that sets the prices, and if there is limited people available to do a job we need the price to go up to attract more to the profession.
If their job is so easy, why don't you just become a tradie your self.
Perhaps comparing a GP to a plumber would be a better example, as both are employees of pseudo companies ( and in fact the tradesman has many more avenues available to legally minimise tax )
A GP will often earn 60% of their billings which are around $30 per consult and can perform 4 consults per hour.
So a GP earning $72 per hour vs a plumber earning $100 per hour. The higher overheads of the plumber being offset by the ability to claim many more items as tax deductions etc, means that there is a real difference.
Hear hear! I was going to write a similar post but Tysonboss1 has summed ti up pretty well IMO.
Cheers,
Beej
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