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From: (no name) (no email)
Date: Wed Aug 25 2004 - 10:04:00 EDT
Bob writes:
<< The next group of diesel mechanics and any hands on-physically demanding
job
applicants, will come when the income meets the demands of the job...and it
will eventually. >>
Right on!
If and when mechanical and or maintenance jobs pay as much as white collar
jobs and have the same benefits they will become far more attractive.
By mid career the average college graduate in a white collar job makes
approximately $80,000 per year. To earn that money, he/she works about 220 eight
hour days per year. The average income is $45/hr. If that person were a mechanic
working in a garage or marina, the overhead charge would be at least 120%.
This gives a total charge to the consumer of the service of about $100/hr. (plus
parts). When we are willing to pay that kind of labor rate for marine
maintenance tasks we will have no trouble in getting good workers.
Until then, low level, labor intensive maintenance jobs will be handled by
marginally qualified immigrants. Sophisticated repair jobs will be performed
under the replace, don't fix, strategy.
And if the pay rate rises, the shift from white collar to blue collar will
occur. A couple of months ago I had my septic tank pumped out. The workman who
came over to clean my tank on a cold rainy day had been a former accountant.
His wife was a school teacher. He took the septic cleaning job because he could
make nearly twice the money as on his former job. When you need your septic
tank cleaned, you don't quibble about the fee.
Have you hired a plumber recently?
Larry Z
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