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Title: Ten Jobs That Pay $30 an Hour
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Published: Feb 16, 2008
Author: Anthony Balderrama
Post Date: 2008-02-16 18:15:22 by YertleTurtle
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Views: 1537
Comments: 18
Remember when you got your first job and realized one movie ticket was equal to one hour of work or that a pair of shoes was an entire workday? Somewhere along the way, many of us stopped looking at our paychecks as units of time and started focusing on how much we deposit in the bank. If you haven’t calculated your hourly pay in a while, now might be a good time crunch some numbers and see what you’re bringing home each day. The median household salary is $48,201, according to the 2006 U.S. Census Bureau report. This makes the average hourly rate $23.17 based on a 40-hour workweek. We’ve made a list of the top 20 jobs that earn $30 per hour, along with their median annual salary, based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). 1. Electronics engineers, except computers - $38.97/hour* Electronics engineers create a variety of electronics and monitor their manufacturing. They are involved in electronics of all sizes and functions, from personal and home audio equipment to broadcast systems. Median annual salary: $81,050 2. Computer applications software engineers - $38.36/hour Computer applications software engineers create or improve programs and software in response to user needs. Their applications might be bundled with other software or they might be created specifically for a client’s private use. Median annual salary: $79,780 3. Chemical engineers - $37.91/hour Chemical engineers solve problems related to using or manufacturing chemicals, whether it’s in the machinery used in the production or in materials created with the chemicals. Median annual salary: $78,860 4. Electrical engineers - $36.50/hour Electrical engineers develop electrical equipment, such as a building’s lighting and wiring or cars and airplanes. Median annual salary: $75,930 5. Administrative law judges, adjudicators and hearing officers - $34.90/hour Administrative law judges, adjudicators and hearing officers preside over court proceedings that relate to a specific government agency. Their cases can involve everything from health code violations to workplace discrimination. Median annual salary: $72,600 6. Mechanical engineers - $33.58/hour Mechanical engineers are involved in the creation of new tools, machines and components, from the concept’s inception to the production and testing stages. Median annual salary: $69,850 7. Civil engineers - $32.98/hour Civil engineers draw up plans for roads, airports and other public goods and oversee their construction. Median annual salary: $68,600 8. Management analysts - $32.72/hour Management analysts look at a company’s structure and business plans for ways to improve revenue and productivity. Median annual salary: $68,050 9. Personal financial advisers - $31.79/hour Personal financial advisers work with individuals to asses their financial situation and help them reach certain goals, which can be anywhere from establishing a retirement fund to deciding the best investment options. Median annual salary: $66,120 10. Operations research analysts - $31.08/hour Operations research analysts are brought into businesses and organizations to identify, investigate and solve logistics problems through the use of statistical analysis and computer programs. The type of problems can vary depending on the nature of the business, whether it’s a production factory or the military. Median annual salary: $64,650 *All salary information based on BLS data.
Poster Comment: BWAHAHAHA!!! These jobs require an IQ of 120 or above. That's about six percent of the population! What about the other 94%? Minimum burger flippers? Security guards? Janitors?
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#1. To: YertleTurtle (#0)
You'd be amazed how many people can't even do that. Shame the corporate SOBs and unions moved in at where I was working. A 50% share of a six figure income was pretty nice money for shoveling shit. Ah well, they got their union and merger. Now the new cleaners work for $9.75 working twice as hard as I did. And they wonder why they don't do a good job.
"The more I see of life, the less I fear death." - Me. "If violence solved nothing, then weapons technology would have never advanced past crude clubs and rocks." - Me.
Employed number of electrical engineers, computer scientists declines, unemployment rate increases Ron Paul for President - Join a Ron Paul Meetup group today! The Revolution will not be televised! Lot of people making that much or more with HS education. Or else the engineering people are selling themselves short. Try to hire a plumber.
Besoffene bei McDonalds "Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them." - Charley Reese
Myth: Shortage of Domestic Engineering Graduates Well spoken, robin!
Cynicom I told students this for years...and received superior smirks of disdain...particularly from the blacks. I have a former classmate who owned a successful accounting firm who sold it and started a much more profitable plumbing firm. I have a 3000acre farming cousin who took a HVAC course through boredom in the winter, became certified, decided to help family, friends and neighbors gratis....and it exploded into a $60,000 take home enterprise part time during winter months. He will never stop farming but now does not know what to do with a business that wants to burst at the seams.
Heck, I pay cute chicks more than that for just planting tulips.
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Which makes it utterly worthless.
God is always good!
Anthony Balderrama, whoever the heck he is, should be ashamed to put a piece like this out. Electrical engineers build cars and airplanes? What he does describe sounds more like what an electrician does, not an electrical engineer. This report is only as reliable as the person reporting it is. So it's crap in my book.
God is always good!
Or else the engineering people are selling themselves short. I have a friend that is a systems engineer making 100K. As for "Lot of people making that much or more with HS education"" I'm not one of them. Boatload of experience in electronics, sheet metal, welding. But I'm old (56). Saw an add for workers at Jacobs Engineering (used to work there as a temp). A few co-workers applied. The 21-year-old was hired, the 50-year-old was told that the company wanted those that would "stay." I guess it matters what and where and who you are.
My oldest son has a 4 year college degree in economics. The only work in that field that he could find was as a temporary worker and the starting pay was pitiful and shameful. He took my advice and tested with the Sheetmetal Workers Union for an apprenticeship. There were over 550 applicants when he took the test. He was one of the 35 they hired in his local. He is now a 4th year apprentice and will graduate at the end of june this year. His 4th year apprentice wage is somewhere around $22,00 per hour and his journeyman rate will be $52.00 hour plus starting July 1st, 2008. He works for 7 weeks and goes to school every 8th week for 40 hours then back to work for 7 weeks and back to school the 8th week for 40 hours.He has been to school for welding, sheetmetal designing,HVAC and of course work safety, He spends many days high atop tall buildings(roof top work setting very large air conditioning units) and also designs and helps run the duct work floor by floor in the building trades. This work is very demanding and very dangerous. His union, as does other building trades unions, has trouble getting qualified apprentices. A lot can not pass the apprentice test and many that do can not pass the drug test. There are also random drug tests that you may have to take at anytime. They may come to you when you are atop a 40 story building and take you for a drug test immediately. This is not nessarily because someone thinks you are high on drugs on a particular day, but to insure your own safety and the safety of fellow workers. Just a reminder to those of you who love to bash unions, just remember that all the good things you have going for you in the workplace, whether you are a union worker or not, rhose good things didn't happen because your employer was a nice guy. They came about not from the tooth fairy either, but from the brave men and women who were exploiated by employers in the past and formed unions to better themselves. We can see very clearly that corporate America is still hellbent on destroying unions so they can return to the 'SWEAT SHOP DAYS' of yester year when a 10/12 hour work day was the norm six, sometimes seven days a week, rampant discrimination in the work place, non existing workplace safety, and no dignity in the workplace. The big three auromakers are trying desperately to cast off their union workers with buyouts so they can pay workers starvation wages and turn back to the ' GOOD OLD DAYS', theirs, not yours or your family. And they aren't doing this so they can reduce the price of their autos. Just the bottomline! I guess what goes around comes around and many of us are either too stupid to realize this , or are too busy doing whatever it is we like to do. We have been lulled to sleep and have become too soft in America. Parents believe it is undignified that their little boys and girls should have to work hard and get dirt under their fingernails. We have been conditioned to believe a college degree is the panacea for our kiddies.
You can make a lot of money in a blue-collar field IF you have the brains. That's the problem. Lots of people don't have the brains or can't pass the drug tests. Or they feel they're too good for it. I have a college degree and an IQ in the 95 percentile, but my dad was a general contractor and I can build a house, put in plumbing, and put in electricity to this day.
When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.
Private process server--$50 per hour. W00t!
Shut your whore mouth, Mr. President.
It took me a month to find a suitable cabinet maker. Eventually, we find one because my wife's girlfriend's husband knew this guy from back high school.
Antiparty - find out why, think about 'how'
Congratulations. The proof is in the pudding. I'm sure your father taught you well. The IQ isn't the only qualifier that comes into play here. Your father prepared you well and the results you speak are proof of that. I know many people with real high IQ's that wouldn't know the difference between garden hoses and garden hoes. The willingness to learn,putting forth an effort and the pride of accomplishment has paid off for you. How boring it would be to me to be someone like a pencil pusher working day in and day out and never doing anything to get dirty fingernails and having the joy of building something tangible like a house or even a bird house. Of course there are ongoing concerted efforts to eliminate the do it yourselfer's. They build stuff unnecessarily complicated like all the crap (computer crsp) on autos that renders many self taught mechanics from fixing their own cars. I guess the auto dealers love those $60/$100 dollars per hour service charges is a good example. Also all those unused buttons on VCR,DVD,and tv remote controls that the average person never tries to learn and never uses. In order to keep us dependent on the 'experts' who make the big bucks, they got to keep us believing we are stupid and will pay the geeks big bucks to do the work for us. Of course many of us have to have the biggest, best, and most toots and whistles on whatever it is we buy. We don't want to have people knowing we are stupid- just want them to keep them wandering.
One of my friends, who writes books on philosophy, put antifreeze in the oil. He thought that's where it went.
When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.
Well, at least one guy in the lower 50% end of the scale managed to become President. Seriously though, a lot of "blue collar" jobs require above average IQs. A good mechanic or electrician is often as smart as a good medical doctor or any other professional. There may be a lot of dumb mechanics out there, but I've also dealt with a lot of dumb MDs who rote-learned their way through medical school and have zero problem solving or critical thinking skills when they face a problem they haven't seen before.
We can see very clearly that corporate America is still hellbent on destroying unions so they can return to the 'SWEAT SHOP DAYS' of yester year when a 10/12 hour work day was the norm six, sometimes seven days a week, rampant discrimination in the work place, non existing workplace safety, and no dignity in the workplace. The big three auromakers are trying desperately to cast off their union workers with buyouts so they can pay workers starvation wages and turn back to the ' GOOD OLD DAYS', theirs, not yours or your family. And they aren't doing this so they can reduce the price of their autos. Just the bottomline! America has gone from Fordism to WalMartism. It's a shift in profit making strategy. With Fordism, you pay your workers enough for them to buy your quality products. Walmartism is paying your workers the bare minimum so that they can buy cheap, Chinese imports.
Janitors?
#2. To: YertleTurtle (#0)
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#3. To: YertleTurtle (#0)
BWAHAHAHA!!! These jobs require an IQ of 120 or above.
#4. To: Cynicom (#3)
#5. To: robin (#2)
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers-USA blames the drop in employed software engineers, programmers, hardware engineers, computer scientists, and systems analysts on the continuing trend for U.S. companies to send jobs overseas, often called offshore outsourcing. The number of employed workers in those fields also seem to contradict the unemployment numbers that the BLS has released, which show a dip in the unemployment rates in those fields.
#6. To: Cynicom (#3)
Try to hire a plumber.
#7. To: YertleTurtle (#0)
#8. To: YertleTurtle (#0)
*All salary information based on BLS data.
#9. To: YertleTurtle (#0)
Electrical engineers develop electrical equipment, such as a building’s lighting and wiring or cars and airplanes.
#10. To: Cynicom (#3)
Lot of people making that much or more with HS education.
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#11. To: rack42 (#10)
Boatload of experience in electronics, sheet metal, welding.
#12. To: LACUMO (#11)
There were over 550 applicants when he took the test. He was one of the 35 they hired in his local.
#13. To: YertleTurtle (#0)
#14. To: Cynicom (#3)
#15. To: YertleTurtle (#12)
I have a college degree and an IQ in the 95 percentile, but my dad was a general contractor and I can build a house, put in plumbing, and put in electricity to this day.
#16. To: LACUMO (#15)
I know many people with real high IQ's that wouldn't know the difference between garden hoses and garden hoes.
#17. To: YertleTurtle (#0)
These jobs require an IQ of 120 or above. That's about six percent of the population! What about the other 94%? Minimum burger flippers? Security guards? Janitors?
#18. To: LACUMO (#11)
Just a reminder to those of you who love to bash unions, just remember that all the good things you have going for you in the workplace, whether you are a union worker or not, rhose good things didn't happen because your employer was a nice guy. They came about not from the tooth fairy either, but from the brave men and women who were exploiated by employers in the past and formed unions to better themselves.
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