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Originally Posted by slowsnake
What's hard to understand?..5 x 10hr days= 50hrs x $90 = $4,500 a week!
Multiply that by 48 weeks, taking 4 weeks annual holidays is $215 grand a year gross.
My garbo gets a week what a plumber earns in a day!
He is just as important as anyone else, just for health reasons, he gets $45 grand a year.
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Cheers King Billy  |
Billy
While I will admit that I have never worked in a trade (I have the hands to prove it) your calculations may be a little off.
I think you may be getting the 'labour rate' and 'wage' confused.
Out of that labour rate other costs come into it. Sure, as you said, they can turn up in the family car with a couple of tools but there is still a cost to that.
There are other 'labour' costs that need to be taken into consideration such as;
* superannuation
* sick leave and workers comp
* administration time
* warranty (yep, sometimes things go wrong that you need to fix - even if they aren't exactly your fault)
* training
* insurance
* renewal of tools - that family car and blow torch will not last forever.
I am sure that there are other things, but as I said, they
may gross $215,000 a year but they don't get paid that.
A garbage person may 'only' get paid $45,000 a year but they get sick leave, workers comp and superannuation on top of that.