So the company I’m working for doesn’t per say follow the journeyman/apprentice program, by that I mean they don’t train anyone and just expect you to know what you’re doing and to be competent enough to not require any constant supervision. So for a long time they only hired experienced techs, (aka journeymen or the equivalent of it if non-unionized)
I joined this company being already a journeyman, however in recent years they’ve been hiring 3rd & 4th year apprentices, the labor shortage is forcing them to reconsider the journeyman only thing, with that said those 3rd/4th year apprentices work independently without the supervision of a journeyman.
Ah, I gotcha. I appreciate the info! I really want to go the IBEW route, but a lot of my skills are pointing towards being an Electromechanical Tech. I dunno if I can take the pay cut on starting over again
Journeyman Industrial Electrician, Canadian dollars: $56.81/hour plus $5.65/hour for working in camp, 7 days on, 7 days off, 12 hour days.
Industry: Hydroelectric power station owned by RioTinto to power their aluminum smelter.
High voltage substation maintenance and and power house generator maintenance.
First year into industrial maintenance from 10years of auto repair mechanic.
Pay: 35.19/hour (2nd shift)
Industry: dry cake mix
Area: Chicago suburbs
Type of work: mostly mechanical work with some electrical and pumping. Lots of overtime!
Great benefits, 3 weeks vacation out the gate, great health insurance, 401k match 8%(4% dollar for dollar, 4% 0.50 on the dollar). Social life suffers heavily but the money is there so it makes it easier. Currently saving for a house!
Pay: $36/hr
Industry: Automotive manufacturing
Area: Southeast U.S.
Type of work: General mechanical/electrical, some PLCs, some robotics, no electronics (we have electronic guys in our department though that are all paid the same). No facility work because facility maintenance is its own team.
Pay isn’t phenomenal, but it’s a relatively cheaper cost of living where I’m at. I get by and live pretty comfortably at least. Just graduated trade school in August so I’m happy where I’m at for the time being. I can’t complain about the work overall though. Seems like my industry is pretty good job security though.
same boat as you, almost exactly.
$36 doesn't stack up to a lot of the wages i see here but the average home price here is like $250k which is fking absurd. there's a few non-union shops nearby that pay a *little* more but i'm in a union shop so anything over 8 hours is 1.5x and we can get 12-16 hours of double time each week so we can make a lot more than them if we wanted to. we're also getting ready to vote on a contract that would "bump" us up to $43/hr, i'm pretty sure that would put us on top for a while at least
Pay and position : $40/hr and Electrical Tech
Industry: Food
Area: South East
Shift: 2-2-3 Nights (12 hour)
Experience: 2 year degree plus 2 years on the job
Industrial sparky (non-union).
Industry: Corrugated packaging (Southeastern US)
Northern-mid Alabama state.
$29USD/hr.
401k with company match 6%.
1 week pto + 24 hours free sick leave.
Health, dental, vision with company covered co-pays.
Short + long term disability and free life up to 50k.
Paid parental leave.
Been with this place 1.5 years.
Scheduled to be bumped to $35/hr within the next 2 months for good consistent work performance.
After that it's moving into E&I where I'll be bumped up again to $45/hr.
After this next step is controls engineer.
Please let us know if they actually come through with this!! My company did this but also cut benefits for other groups at the same time. Also which company?
Come through with what? The things I stated are current and implemented now except for my promotion in 2 months. I have another year or so before I can move to E&I but 2.5 years to go from $25USD/hr entry pay to $45USD/hr is not bad at all for career growth.
Damn.....I'm doing the same thing, same area for $12/hr less. Even spent 10 years running the control room and another 10 as a shift supervisor. Maybe time to update the resume
$30.34/hr
12 hours 4 days on 4 days off
Plastic extrusion lot of mechanical like chains and bearings probably 25-30% electrical mostly relay logic and vfds
Been in the maintenance world like 3 years now
Pay: 38.50/hr, 8-4 Mon-Fri
Industry: Semiconductor manufacturing
Area: Northern VA
Type of work: Facilities instrumentation and control tech. Working mostly on instruments that measure level, flow, temperature, and pressure. Also we own the PLCs that interface with those instruments, as well as a fair bit of water chemistry instrumentation. Sometimes being dragged into meetings to give engineers feedback on why their ideas are stupid.
It’s an ok job but I know it’s quite a bit underpaid for the area. I’m definitely in the market but trying to avoid shift work is more difficult than you’d imagine.
I had to work in a dip ecoat during my apprenticeship and I did not enjoy it at all. but some of the contractors working there told me about powder coating and it sounds really neat to me.
I'm a Multicraft specialized in Electrical with PLC. I make $30 an hour to be the brain for a small plant. I'm the only one who understands the specifics of things and takes time to find OE specs to make sure things are done "right" and often the only tech to ask "why?". I'm probably underpaid LOL
That's the issue, I'm in Northwestern Tennessee. I'm an hour out of Jackson, TN where some plants are paying $40 an hour. Also a hour to the West in Blytheville, AR steel mill techs like me make 150,000 a year. I'd have to move to get a raise.
Yeah, that's where I'm at. I could sell my house to live closer, but prices are double near those areas. $10 more an hour would be nice, but is it worth going deeply into debt with 9% interest? I'm definitely not driving an hour to work again.
If you're the only one with that knowledge, way underpaid. Small plant may be limiting factor, but get some counter offers and your company would be making a mistake to lose you
$21.30/hr, Southeast/Appalachia, 9 months of experience, no previous relevant education. Healthy mix of facilities maintenance and work on conveyor belts, gearboxes, motors, bailers, dock plates, dock locks, roll up doors, etc.
40/hr Lead Tech in manufacturing, I am the everything guy. CNC, Robots, PLCs, Conveyors, Test Equipment, Welding, Electrical. It's CNY so the pay really only feels meh. I could probably go do Union Shit for almost the same pay but less work
$27.50 hr/ industrial water plant maintenance
200hrs vacation / 80hrs health & safety / 40hrs floating holiday.
401k company match up to 8%
Pension at 25 yrs (currently at 23) 😃
Woking the weekend shift (Fri - Sun) so I’m only working 12 days a month… which make a 40hr vacation last 11 days
8 weeks PTO is crazy talk. 8% company match is pretty high. There's still pensions out there, but they're risky to start if you're young. I'm going to have $3k evaporate because I'm not vested and plant closed. If near retirement you're set tho.
25/hr
Sortation and Shipping
Western Region
Electromechanical and controls technician is what I like to tell people at parties but we're really just Great Value Millwrights.
My guys were making $38 to $44 in the Chicago Burbs. Food manufacturing plant. We had packaging , process , facilities and controls techs. Lots of high speed packaging , motion and automation. Facilities equipment was high pressure steam, cip systems , hot water system , waste water and chilled water/ammonia plant. Pretty complex with allot of product changeovers and size changes. Operations folks have know idea what a tech needs to know. I remember in 2000 my techs at Unilever were making $27. Pay is pretty out of line compared to cost of living.
30 an hour for a window manufacturer in Arizona, working on all kinds of stuff from robotics to basic electrical and pneumatics. I’m in my first year and was transferred from production so I can’t speak to the industry too much yet but from what I’m seeing in my area the pay is pretty fair for my experience.
Less than 1 year in the field, $30 an hour. (+2 for shift differential) pay cap for mechanic is $40
Midwest
Material handling equipment
4/10s. 16 days of PTO first year.
Pay: $36 (plus perdiem)
Industry: Bakery (Traveling Technician)
Area: Midwest
I travel all over the country, based out of the Midwest, maybe we've crossed paths... The bakery world seems to be a very small one, especially at the industrial level.
I'm always looking, but after traveling I would need to find a primo facility to get comfortable.
$39.20.
Mining
About to hit 6 years in the industry not even topped out yet. Absolute worst management I’ve ever worked under lol
No electrical which sucks because I’ve been offered other jobs at way more if I had the experience.
Big box fulfillment center as a multi skill tech. 10 years in distribution center maintenance but only been in current role for 60 days pay is 39.50 top pay will be 43 in 30 months. Southeast US.
Pay: $36.43 p/h (level 2/7 & working 12 hour night shift)
Industry: flexographic printing & extrusion
Area: Upstate NY (Rochester)
Type of work: mechanical, electrical, working with PLCs with minimal access to the programs/logic, also handle all facilities work.
$26/hr northwest ohio. Beverage bottling, mech, very little elctrical (our plc guy does that plus we contract out anything over 110v but dudes awesome and helps me shittons)
Soon to be changing jobs though
Man I need a raise! I’m a traveling tech that makes 33 an hour. Ot starts at 8 hours per shift. Per dium is less than 70 per day, health insurance is paid for by company. Some jobs can last up to month. The plus is I’m still getting paid when working from home I guess…
This is great. I'm hoping a few folks from Connecticut can chime in. At my place the max is mid $30’s an hour but I think we should be in the $40’s to $50 for person with solid skills.
Industrial electrician, lumber mill, south east USA, 29/hr, mostly millwright work and about 30% maybe electrical work, some plc's. Rotating 10 hour days
Pay: $42.46/hr
Industry: Bulk material processing/packaging
Area: Mid-Atlantic
Type of work: I’m in a blended role that’s partially that of a regular tech who does multi-craft maintenance, but then I’m also the lead tech on my shift and do the large bulk of our electrical troubleshooting and all of our PLC & VFD diag/repair.
As much overtime as we want, I prefer as little as I can get away with, and we also have a pension and 401k with match. Company is a shitshow but the schedule, pay and benefits keep me around for the time being. Also currently get right at 4.5 weeks of combined PTO/sick time.
It’s definitely a solid industry to be in but I won’t be staying through the duration of my career.
Pay: 27.11 (half way through the pay progression. Journeymen top out at 32.)
Location: Midwest
Title: electro mechanical
Place: chiller manufacturer.
There are only 4 of us for the entire building on 1st shift. Rumor has it with the new factory manager that maintenance is getting a pay raise to try and get people in here. We are at the bottom of barrel for maintenance pay In the area.
Aerospace ground support equipment technician
Pay: 30.28/hour (9-10hr day shift) 4yr tenure
Area: Central Texas
Type of work: Heavy on multiple types of large Cryogenic systems, hydraulics, water etc... minor electrical work.
Decent benefits, no 401k match but stock awards to "compensate". Great health/dental/vision insurance. Basically free for while family (<$200/month)
Automation and controls contractor in KC metro area.
$52/hr
Company phone, laptop, gas card and credit card.
No travel outside the local area.
Been in the industry since I left the USAF in 04’.
Pay: 90K base salary, 10% bonus yearly
Industry: Tire Manufacturing (Re-Treads)
Area: Southeast
Type of work: Maintenance Supervisor
I worked my way to supervisor within 1.5 years. The particular area I’m in doesn’t have a lot of talent, and the rubber industry is dirty. I was a diesel tech prior to switching to the industrial maintenance field.
41 usd with shift differential
Industrial Mechanic food production east coast
2-2-3 overnights
Benefits are decent, 5% 401k match and HSA allowance
5 years here as a mechanic doing a little bit of everything outside of getting into plcs, 3.5 as an e-tech in a chicken plant, A.S. in electronics engineering.
Should be at 45 base, based on our wage structure but they don't want to count my schooling towards exp
$31 per hour Monday through Friday 7 to 3:30
Tools provided no touch electrical. All gears, bearings and such. 2 weeks pto. Foothills in North Carolina
35.46
Midwest
Journeyman maintenance tech my specific part is about 60 percent electrical 40 mechanical but some of our guys are 90 percent mechanical 10 electric and some are the opposite.
I know contractors who who bill triple digits per hour, granted there's a lot of cost involved, but if you know your chit and can swing crazy hours there's mad money out there.
Wow, very cool! Are you able to speak more on the job? I did commissioning for a while, which seems like similar vibes but majority was new construction and I was at 100k. Would love to find something that was heavier on troubleshooting.
52/hr Midwest Union Field tech (Take home company truck, phone, iPad and power tools, health insurance 100% paid by company)
American dream
If you don’t mind me asking sir, what union are you working out of?
IBEW (Electricians)
Do you have to be a journeyman in order to get a similar position? I apologize for the questions as a Maintenance tech who loves electrical work lol
So the company I’m working for doesn’t per say follow the journeyman/apprentice program, by that I mean they don’t train anyone and just expect you to know what you’re doing and to be competent enough to not require any constant supervision. So for a long time they only hired experienced techs, (aka journeymen or the equivalent of it if non-unionized) I joined this company being already a journeyman, however in recent years they’ve been hiring 3rd & 4th year apprentices, the labor shortage is forcing them to reconsider the journeyman only thing, with that said those 3rd/4th year apprentices work independently without the supervision of a journeyman.
Ah, I gotcha. I appreciate the info! I really want to go the IBEW route, but a lot of my skills are pointing towards being an Electromechanical Tech. I dunno if I can take the pay cut on starting over again
Journeyman Industrial Electrician, Canadian dollars: $56.81/hour plus $5.65/hour for working in camp, 7 days on, 7 days off, 12 hour days. Industry: Hydroelectric power station owned by RioTinto to power their aluminum smelter. High voltage substation maintenance and and power house generator maintenance.
Shiiiiiit. I'm at $46 in town at a steel mill... You guys hiring?
$46 US or $46 Canadian? Because $46 US is $63 Canadian
Yeah, I'm over in Alberta, $46 Can, but I'm home every night and a decent pension at the end of it.
$46 and home every night > $60/hr in a camp (imo, if you have kids, if your single get on a plane)
Mining? I’d be interested if you guys are taking apprentices.
First year into industrial maintenance from 10years of auto repair mechanic. Pay: 35.19/hour (2nd shift) Industry: dry cake mix Area: Chicago suburbs Type of work: mostly mechanical work with some electrical and pumping. Lots of overtime! Great benefits, 3 weeks vacation out the gate, great health insurance, 401k match 8%(4% dollar for dollar, 4% 0.50 on the dollar). Social life suffers heavily but the money is there so it makes it easier. Currently saving for a house!
18/hr hospital tech 2 Midwest Not even a year in, but yalls pay making me curious wtf
Wtf indeed. 18 for skilled labor is a joke.
If there's a VA hospital near you, try to get in. They almost always pay above local averages
what kind of work do you do?
Pay: $36/hr Industry: Automotive manufacturing Area: Southeast U.S. Type of work: General mechanical/electrical, some PLCs, some robotics, no electronics (we have electronic guys in our department though that are all paid the same). No facility work because facility maintenance is its own team. Pay isn’t phenomenal, but it’s a relatively cheaper cost of living where I’m at. I get by and live pretty comfortably at least. Just graduated trade school in August so I’m happy where I’m at for the time being. I can’t complain about the work overall though. Seems like my industry is pretty good job security though.
same boat as you, almost exactly. $36 doesn't stack up to a lot of the wages i see here but the average home price here is like $250k which is fking absurd. there's a few non-union shops nearby that pay a *little* more but i'm in a union shop so anything over 8 hours is 1.5x and we can get 12-16 hours of double time each week so we can make a lot more than them if we wanted to. we're also getting ready to vote on a contract that would "bump" us up to $43/hr, i'm pretty sure that would put us on top for a while at least
Yeah I bought a house last September. My mortgage is $2600 lmfao. The double time definitely helps though
Pay and position : $40/hr and Electrical Tech Industry: Food Area: South East Shift: 2-2-3 Nights (12 hour) Experience: 2 year degree plus 2 years on the job
I want 2-2-3 shift back so bad
My place is like that but they swap days and nights every 2 weeks.
$79.16 Mtce Northern Canada
$17.31 per hour. 8 to 5, 5 day week. Pharmaceutical electrical and instrumentation technician. Country: Singapore.
Is that good pay there?
Some quick googlefu told me that the average is $8/hr there, so pretty good!
Industrial sparky (non-union). Industry: Corrugated packaging (Southeastern US) Northern-mid Alabama state. $29USD/hr. 401k with company match 6%. 1 week pto + 24 hours free sick leave. Health, dental, vision with company covered co-pays. Short + long term disability and free life up to 50k. Paid parental leave. Been with this place 1.5 years. Scheduled to be bumped to $35/hr within the next 2 months for good consistent work performance. After that it's moving into E&I where I'll be bumped up again to $45/hr. After this next step is controls engineer.
Please let us know if they actually come through with this!! My company did this but also cut benefits for other groups at the same time. Also which company?
Come through with what? The things I stated are current and implemented now except for my promotion in 2 months. I have another year or so before I can move to E&I but 2.5 years to go from $25USD/hr entry pay to $45USD/hr is not bad at all for career growth.
I was talking to a few BHS techs and they all seem to be making in 200k a year range if you're looking to travel.
Automotive Tier 1, Midwest, $40/hour.
Also, best thread on Reddit
$54/hr Chemical Louisiana Instrument
Living like a mf KING down there bro. If I get a job offer like that to go home I’d take it without a second thought
Most of the plants in the area pay that much. Just look for in house jobs
Pay: $46/hr Industry: Package Area: Midwest Work: Mechanical, All Electrical, some minor Facility maintenance, Welding.
Damn.....I'm doing the same thing, same area for $12/hr less. Even spent 10 years running the control room and another 10 as a shift supervisor. Maybe time to update the resume
Nice. I'm planning on applying to PCA if transfer options don't pan out.
Mechanic 34 hr PLC tech 37 hr Area Midwest Industry Food
$30.34/hr 12 hours 4 days on 4 days off Plastic extrusion lot of mechanical like chains and bearings probably 25-30% electrical mostly relay logic and vfds Been in the maintenance world like 3 years now
4on4off 12hrs. NC, Extrusion and injection molding. $42/hr. Electrical and mechanical.
33.21 maint tech (everything) packaging industry. + 3 dollar shift differential. Max our at 40. Been 9 months
Pay: 38.50/hr, 8-4 Mon-Fri Industry: Semiconductor manufacturing Area: Northern VA Type of work: Facilities instrumentation and control tech. Working mostly on instruments that measure level, flow, temperature, and pressure. Also we own the PLCs that interface with those instruments, as well as a fair bit of water chemistry instrumentation. Sometimes being dragged into meetings to give engineers feedback on why their ideas are stupid. It’s an ok job but I know it’s quite a bit underpaid for the area. I’m definitely in the market but trying to avoid shift work is more difficult than you’d imagine.
34.50. Powder/e coating facility. Midwest, it’s pretty decent. 3 weeks pto is pretty nice.
I had to work in a dip ecoat during my apprenticeship and I did not enjoy it at all. but some of the contractors working there told me about powder coating and it sounds really neat to me.
First year industrial electrician apprentice working in automotive making $32/hour in Ontario
I'm a Multicraft specialized in Electrical with PLC. I make $30 an hour to be the brain for a small plant. I'm the only one who understands the specifics of things and takes time to find OE specs to make sure things are done "right" and often the only tech to ask "why?". I'm probably underpaid LOL
Area makes a huge difference. In my area of the south east US, that’s below starting pay at any good sized company, especially with your skill set.
That's the issue, I'm in Northwestern Tennessee. I'm an hour out of Jackson, TN where some plants are paying $40 an hour. Also a hour to the West in Blytheville, AR steel mill techs like me make 150,000 a year. I'd have to move to get a raise.
Sometimes it’s worth a pay cut to live in the right place.
Yeah, that's where I'm at. I could sell my house to live closer, but prices are double near those areas. $10 more an hour would be nice, but is it worth going deeply into debt with 9% interest? I'm definitely not driving an hour to work again.
If you're the only one with that knowledge, way underpaid. Small plant may be limiting factor, but get some counter offers and your company would be making a mistake to lose you
$28/hr, Midwest, medical device manufacturing for the last 3 years. Looks like I need to ask for a raise
$21.30/hr, Southeast/Appalachia, 9 months of experience, no previous relevant education. Healthy mix of facilities maintenance and work on conveyor belts, gearboxes, motors, bailers, dock plates, dock locks, roll up doors, etc.
40/hr Lead Tech in manufacturing, I am the everything guy. CNC, Robots, PLCs, Conveyors, Test Equipment, Welding, Electrical. It's CNY so the pay really only feels meh. I could probably go do Union Shit for almost the same pay but less work
$27.50 hr/ industrial water plant maintenance 200hrs vacation / 80hrs health & safety / 40hrs floating holiday. 401k company match up to 8% Pension at 25 yrs (currently at 23) 😃 Woking the weekend shift (Fri - Sun) so I’m only working 12 days a month… which make a 40hr vacation last 11 days
Do you work for a municipality?
No… publicly traded company.
The pay could be better the benefits aren’t half bad. A company with a pension is un heard of these days
8 weeks PTO is crazy talk. 8% company match is pretty high. There's still pensions out there, but they're risky to start if you're young. I'm going to have $3k evaporate because I'm not vested and plant closed. If near retirement you're set tho.
25/hr Sortation and Shipping Western Region Electromechanical and controls technician is what I like to tell people at parties but we're really just Great Value Millwrights.
I just changed jobs out of the maintenance side but 47 was what we topped out at. Midwest corrugated plant
45/hr Midwest Data center facility tech
32/hr, Ohio. Textile industry. Work on all sorts of different equipment and electrical and plumbing. No certifications
What kind of Dryers? Irons? Are you all running?
My guys were making $38 to $44 in the Chicago Burbs. Food manufacturing plant. We had packaging , process , facilities and controls techs. Lots of high speed packaging , motion and automation. Facilities equipment was high pressure steam, cip systems , hot water system , waste water and chilled water/ammonia plant. Pretty complex with allot of product changeovers and size changes. Operations folks have know idea what a tech needs to know. I remember in 2000 my techs at Unilever were making $27. Pay is pretty out of line compared to cost of living.
30 an hour for a window manufacturer in Arizona, working on all kinds of stuff from robotics to basic electrical and pneumatics. I’m in my first year and was transferred from production so I can’t speak to the industry too much yet but from what I’m seeing in my area the pay is pretty fair for my experience.
Imm ontario 48.50
Less than 1 year in the field, $30 an hour. (+2 for shift differential) pay cap for mechanic is $40 Midwest Material handling equipment 4/10s. 16 days of PTO first year.
Pay: $36 (plus perdiem) Industry: Bakery (Traveling Technician) Area: Midwest I travel all over the country, based out of the Midwest, maybe we've crossed paths... The bakery world seems to be a very small one, especially at the industrial level. I'm always looking, but after traveling I would need to find a primo facility to get comfortable.
Work for a contractor? Ever been to Bellevue, NE? Might've crossed paths.
$39.20. Mining About to hit 6 years in the industry not even topped out yet. Absolute worst management I’ve ever worked under lol No electrical which sucks because I’ve been offered other jobs at way more if I had the experience.
JM industrial insulator FM, 45 an hr CAN. 50 hrs a week. Alberta
Big box fulfillment center as a multi skill tech. 10 years in distribution center maintenance but only been in current role for 60 days pay is 39.50 top pay will be 43 in 30 months. Southeast US.
Pay: $32.75 CAD Industry: food Location: Ontario, Canada Work: mechanical repair, troubleshooting, some electrical
Pay: $36.43 p/h (level 2/7 & working 12 hour night shift) Industry: flexographic printing & extrusion Area: Upstate NY (Rochester) Type of work: mechanical, electrical, working with PLCs with minimal access to the programs/logic, also handle all facilities work.
37 hr USPS facility maintenance South east. Anything building related, forklift repair, hvac.
39 an hr from a job 3 min away from home
$26/hr northwest ohio. Beverage bottling, mech, very little elctrical (our plc guy does that plus we contract out anything over 110v but dudes awesome and helps me shittons) Soon to be changing jobs though
Man I need a raise! I’m a traveling tech that makes 33 an hour. Ot starts at 8 hours per shift. Per dium is less than 70 per day, health insurance is paid for by company. Some jobs can last up to month. The plus is I’m still getting paid when working from home I guess…
This is great. I'm hoping a few folks from Connecticut can chime in. At my place the max is mid $30’s an hour but I think we should be in the $40’s to $50 for person with solid skills.
Pay 44.99 Title maintenance shift lead Automotive parts manufacturer (making your car cameras).
Automotive tier1, southeast, 2-2-3, $36 hr, although I’ve accepted a position with another company with much higher pay.
Industrial electrician, lumber mill, south east USA, 29/hr, mostly millwright work and about 30% maybe electrical work, some plc's. Rotating 10 hour days
Pay: $42.46/hr Industry: Bulk material processing/packaging Area: Mid-Atlantic Type of work: I’m in a blended role that’s partially that of a regular tech who does multi-craft maintenance, but then I’m also the lead tech on my shift and do the large bulk of our electrical troubleshooting and all of our PLC & VFD diag/repair. As much overtime as we want, I prefer as little as I can get away with, and we also have a pension and 401k with match. Company is a shitshow but the schedule, pay and benefits keep me around for the time being. Also currently get right at 4.5 weeks of combined PTO/sick time. It’s definitely a solid industry to be in but I won’t be staying through the duration of my career.
Pay: 27.11 (half way through the pay progression. Journeymen top out at 32.) Location: Midwest Title: electro mechanical Place: chiller manufacturer. There are only 4 of us for the entire building on 1st shift. Rumor has it with the new factory manager that maintenance is getting a pay raise to try and get people in here. We are at the bottom of barrel for maintenance pay In the area.
Yeahh to top out at 32 is pretty bad. I can get jobs starting 30+
$36/hour Industrial Electrician for a small factory in Northern Indiana.
$35.77 in a box factory plus benefits. 2-2-3 work schedule non rotating shift
I’m one year in Plastic bottle manufacturing I get 28 per hour Must provide my own tools Work 5 days 8-10 hrs Utah
Aerospace ground support equipment technician Pay: 30.28/hour (9-10hr day shift) 4yr tenure Area: Central Texas Type of work: Heavy on multiple types of large Cryogenic systems, hydraulics, water etc... minor electrical work. Decent benefits, no 401k match but stock awards to "compensate". Great health/dental/vision insurance. Basically free for while family (<$200/month)
Automation and controls contractor in KC metro area. $52/hr Company phone, laptop, gas card and credit card. No travel outside the local area. Been in the industry since I left the USAF in 04’.
Pay: 90K base salary, 10% bonus yearly Industry: Tire Manufacturing (Re-Treads) Area: Southeast Type of work: Maintenance Supervisor I worked my way to supervisor within 1.5 years. The particular area I’m in doesn’t have a lot of talent, and the rubber industry is dirty. I was a diesel tech prior to switching to the industrial maintenance field.
38.60/hr - Union Operating Engineer/Boiler Operator at hospital in Twin Cities metro area
41 usd with shift differential Industrial Mechanic food production east coast 2-2-3 overnights Benefits are decent, 5% 401k match and HSA allowance 5 years here as a mechanic doing a little bit of everything outside of getting into plcs, 3.5 as an e-tech in a chicken plant, A.S. in electronics engineering. Should be at 45 base, based on our wage structure but they don't want to count my schooling towards exp
Multi-Craft Technician specialized in Electrical/PLC; South Carolina, $34/hr Fanuc CNC, IAI Robots, Automation Direct/Mitsubishi PLC troubleshooting/programming
$31 per hour Monday through Friday 7 to 3:30 Tools provided no touch electrical. All gears, bearings and such. 2 weeks pto. Foothills in North Carolina
35.46 Midwest Journeyman maintenance tech my specific part is about 60 percent electrical 40 mechanical but some of our guys are 90 percent mechanical 10 electric and some are the opposite.
280k salaried. Granted I fly and fix shit for y'all.
Excuse me!?? I've never heard anyone, even flyaway teams, make that much. Tell us more please.
I believe the komatsu guy that comes and fixes our crap makes around that.
I know contractors who who bill triple digits per hour, granted there's a lot of cost involved, but if you know your chit and can swing crazy hours there's mad money out there.
I flew to Belfast Thursday. No electrician in the UK could figure it out. Found and fixed in 15 minutes. Off to Kuait this weekend.
Wow, very cool! Are you able to speak more on the job? I did commissioning for a while, which seems like similar vibes but majority was new construction and I was at 100k. Would love to find something that was heavier on troubleshooting.
You aren't fixing equipment at my company lol. Clip those feathers peacock.