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Career Path => Money Matters => Salary Questions => Topic started by: tennbuck on Mar 22, 2008, 10:28

Title: Carpenters pay?
Post by: tennbuck on Mar 22, 2008, 10:28

whats the pay for carpenters(scaffolding) at different plants?

thanks

Title: Re: Carpenters pay?
Post by: Rennhack on Mar 22, 2008, 11:18

I'm not a carpenter, but what I've heard is typically $20 - $25/hr.  It really depends on what local you are working out of.  Jersey pays better than down south for most trades.

Title: Re: Carpenters pay?
Post by: tennbuck on Apr 26, 2008, 10:20

so there are no carpenters on this site?

Title: Re: Carpenters pay?
Post by: desertdog on Apr 26, 2008, 10:33

Not a carpenter but an experienced nuclear worker.  My buddy (experienced house builder) working his first scaffold building job at a fossil plant in MD was makng $38/hr and $85 per diem. 

p.s.- WTF are us RP's doing working for less?

Title: Re: Carpenters pay?
Post by: Eightmile on Apr 29, 2008, 03:55

Quote from: desertdog on Apr 26, 2008, 10:33

Not a carpenter but an experienced nuclear worker.  My buddy (experienced house builder) working his first scaffold building job at a fossil plant in MD was makng $38/hr and $85 per diem. 

p.s.- WTF are us RP's doing working for less?

I've heard close to the same wages from carpenters doing nukes, sometimes with and sometimes without diem.  Sometimes the number I've heard quoted is what I would call their "effective rate" which includes medical and pension and what-not through a union, but sometimes not.

And I've often wondered why we aren't closer in wage to the skilled trades.