My plumber charged me £1300 for two days work fitting a bath and changing pipes. Bath and taps supplied by me. Also £260 for replacing 2 radiators that I supplied. My electrician charged me £1400 for 3 days work just Labour and certificates My plasterer charged me £180 for a days Labour I supplied all the materials. The plumber worked for a business and the other two were sole traders. Apart from gas I am now going to all my own plumbing from now on. As for Brickies you would rather knock a wall down and replace with a wooden fence than pay their extortionate prices. The problem in this country is too much red tape for a sole trader to take in an apprentice. Big government intervention has messed this country up. They would rather bring in cheap Labour.
As a self employed painter and decorator 30yr you know the ones if you can piss you can paint we are a finishing trade and a vast majority of my time is taken up making good and making stuff look pretty for the client bad miters, ify plastering, holes left by Mr sparky and his mate Pete the plumb have even had to repoint walls to paint because the brickie knew is was to be painted, replace broken panes because there's no glazers, even had to tell Steve the scaf where the boards should be. Yeah we the lowest paid. But without us the job ain't finished and that means unhappy client. I love my job and that means more to me. Top video. Keep it up keep it real.
I’m a roofer and plasterer to trade with own business in Edinburgh. I’m minimum £200 per day. Plus £50 for ladders going up. Another £50 for roof ladders. Higher buildings are more cash for danger money.
Great vid but it does vary massively throughout the country. I’m plumber& Gas engineer in London and charge out my labour at £400 pd… no one bats an eyelid at that price
I'm surprised there was no mention of tilers. That's a skilled job and there's decent money to be made, especially in Victorian tiling. At a guess, I reckon they earn as much as plasterers, but I might be wrong.
I've been tiling 35 years and years back i done geometric tiling and yes, it was good money but there's not much demand for it nowadays. I haven't been asked to do any geometric jobs for some time now. As for pay, as with any trade, depends where you are and demand. I'm to old for site work now and where i live tilers are two a penny. To many tilers after not enough work and prices have dropped. I was making more money on a more regular basis 25 years ago doing commercial contract work. Had enough of it TBH.
@@tilerman That's really interesting to hear. I was under the impression that since we left the EU the demand for tilers was on the rise, especially in London. I work as a plasterer's laborer and the tilers were earning similar money to the plasterers, but I'm guessing there are going to be variations across the country.
Iam a lime plasterer, and we earn a bit more than the average trade, but it took 3 years in college and 1 year in Europe, learning modern float and set lime skills but worth it for a bit more cash every day
I’m a bricky on a price and the money varies so much just due to things which are out of our control, such as you turn up to the job and your scaffold hasn’t been raised, you’ve ran out of sand, cement, which as labour only you can’t control. And of course the weather is a big factor but you have to make hay while the sun shines👍
Im a Bricklayer and i would agree with this im self employed but would say over the 25yrs of being a bricky my earnings have always been fairly high in comparison to the other trades...the last generation of bricklayers have all but gone im 43 and not seen anybody coming into the trade for at least the last 15 yrs. So there isn't many guys left and even less good guys around. My dad was a bricklayer and always told me they were the top of tree on a building site and I have to agree although I have admiration for all the trades. The better way of looking at it is an old site agent once said to me a pound for pound you get more from a bricklayer than any other trade and when you put it like that you really do.
I’m a joiner, in east Anglia. There’s always work as we work mostly inside but the money is poor for how skilled it is and working to fine margins, lots of different machinery. Pay of 28500 a year. Definitely looking to change trades
I was an apprentice sparky when I left school for 3 years and hated it as Im scared of heights and could never get over it. Worked with lots of trades all over the uk and they all worked really hard. I'm glad I got out as I see people who aren't good for much after 55 due to the elements taking their toll. I believe trades people should have an extra government subsidy to aid with early retirement and access to paid holidays.
I have my ltd company I'm making 250-400 a day as a decorator which I run my own business but the minimum is 250 that I make so as a decorator I'm really happy with my earnings. Cheers.
I was a bricklayer and retrained as a surveyor after a few years on the job. My back was literally broken after only 7 years in the game. They deserve that pay!
@@Jaaammmbbbooo sava is good, but expensive and rubbish finance options. I did mine through Northumbria university. Student finance is way more affordable than sava !
Ireland. Best payed are electricians and plumbers. Self employed painters, plasterers and block layers get top dollar as their is shortage of those trades.
I have been laying bricks for over 40 years, left the UK at 21, weather here in Australia is definitely better for out side trades, pay here is on average higher than the UK, but haven said that the cost of living is extremely expensive
Hi, when you take the extremely high cost of living in Australia into account, are you financially better off in Australia than you would be in the UK?
@@ryokan9120 aus is better i went to sydney prices are same as london but wages are more. Overall quality of life in aus is 100 times better than the uk.
For his overall knowledge on site and the fact that they basically set out most jobs and run them and pulling all separate trades together on most sites in the right sequence the Chippie’s should b rewarded more in there pay packets after all for donkeys years they were always the ones made up to foreman’s and agents it wasn’t that way for no reason it was because of there knowledge of all the trades and the way they could pull them all together to complete a project
As a builder covering all trades amd all over country I don't think the positions are far out although a little low for some ! My plasterers generally on £20 pH 50 hour week 48 weeks a year ...... well they on a good pull I might need to have a pay review 🤔
I'm city & guilds level 2 in plastering, bricklaying and joinery. I do handyman work due to having a knackered back. I make £160 per day in North east.
I think one of the reasons glaziers are high earners is because of Grenfell. My mate (a glazier) has been fitting fire doors since that happened and he earns a good old chunk.
I'm into Specialist Cleaning (NorthEast England) Cleaning all flooring types inside and out and easy do £350 most days... I am a former Welder Fabricator of 20 years and earned considerably less.... Who knew lol.....
I started going to college at 14 one day a week as part of a programme with my school doing brickwork for 2 years and managed to place 2nd in the guild of brickwork competition. Left school at 16 and did a 2 year carpentry apprenticeship. Then when straight back to do a 16 week plastering course. I’m currently 23 being paid 30k salary but charge £200 day rate on side jobs.
With those skills i would suggest starting out on your own asap. If the customer dosent have a double garage take a pass. If you dont already live there move South.
@@trig thanks man, am currently working in North Somerset, and I’m just starting out in property development finished and sold my first house last year.
Bit of a controversial topic this one and one I don’t talk about on my channel ( even though I had more comments about that then anything else) but I basically put myself out between )200 and £300 a day, some days are better some days are worse, but that’s me sourcing my own work, sourcing my own materials which can be driving to multiple suppliers and actually doing the job.
Remember there's levels. Pay yourself what your worth. By now people should know you get what you pay for. Do you want a crap joiner for £200 a day or a joiner that will treat your job like its his own home. Won't do anything he wouldn't do in his own home. Fast and attention to detail is on point. £400 a day sir. LEVELS in every trade. Too many cowboys out there.
Although not technically a trade; Site managers are in high demand & make decent money, without having to work the tools. A lot of site managers seem to be ex-chippies or brickies.
Plastering for 20 years now. I would say a self employed exprienced plasterer you should be getting £200 a day plus. Obviously jobs Very but that's the amount you should aim for. The Salaries are prob not to far out, but what it doesn't take trades like gas/plumbing and electrics if you go self employed your wages will be so much higher where alot of plumbers and electricans are more likely employed not self-employed compared to the other trades.
Putty and paint makes a chippy a saint!as a self employed painter decorator I charge minimum 200 per day but often earn more,I work in private homes and the money is quite good,I worked on sites as painter and its the lowest of the low but going into peoples private homes there is a lot more respect for a painter compared to on the sites
Non-jobs mate. Think you’ll find it’s more than 70k also. Tradesmen keep the country running, these diversity officers get paid to work 3/4 days a week and all they do is sit in stupid meetings for an hour a day.
But like any job its supply and demand and we may not see the need for a diversity officer but the fact that it sounds so vague and uncommon means that there aren't many capable to do it so the job commands a high salary.
I'm a slate/tiler roofer,roughcaster do sand and cement work k-rend, silicone thin coat rendering, coving plastering ,dot dabbing and lead work earn a decent wage and do a decent job tried venetian plastering but no market for around my area so going to start learning lead burning every days different work 7 days a week and most nights I'm that busy the now but balance work and family life and I love it
Jack of all master of absolutely none . Time served NO. Chancer yes work standards usually very poor. But will make out there the Best of the Best . This is why anybody can call themselves what they like in the Building Trade no proof needed. Total Joke Really.🇬🇧💩🇬🇧💩🇬🇧💩🤡🤡
@@davidrobinson6353 I do them all to a high standard ,don't do alot of lead work but will be working on that shine light on all my work when its painted and that's all the proof I need that I leave a good job my slate and tile valleys are cut straight as lines on the the roof are as straight as you will get, i'm no chancer m8 I take pride in my work
I make allot more than listed mainly painting but I have my own company, my advice would be don’t even bother painting unless your gonna get your own firm it’s absolute madness! Hard work and on top of that everyone thinks it’s easy haha. Get your own firm, make commercial contacts and don’t be shy giving drinks to whoever gave you the contract! Peace
Very difficult to compare wages mate Im a joiner working in northeast of England supposedly lowest paid areas, made 35000 last year in ten month had two month off sky is the limit for price work tradesmen
Surprised roofers aren't higher up, with the weather, the fact that you are at heights, plus it's a mixed sport, bricklaying, lead work, window fitting, pointing, carpentry and more it's not just replacing a few tiles, all at height and not always with scaffolding.
I'm a stonemason. Don't touch restoration. Work on big one off projects that tend to be quite special and work with almost any stone. My boss charges the client more, I get £25 ph, 8-16/17.00. 6yrs as groundwork and hard landscaping, 4 yrs hitting rock! I'm self-employed and work all over the country, often staying away. All my joints hurt!!
i did my first 3 years of work as a traditional glazier, and upvc W&D, and glass shop work , ive never seen a well paid glazier job advertised, , , , maybe its the curtain wallers who get well paid?, , , , glass shop work is little more than minimum wage.
Hilarious! Im assuming these are gross figures? Taking £33k, as an example, that equates to £130 a day gross assuming a 21 day working month. In the SE you wouldn’t get a trade to answer their phone for that money. I assume these figures are after some creative accounting? My son did his A-levels and I suggested he do a higher apprenticeship in plumbing or sparks. Notwithstanding to highs and lows of building demands, it’s far better paid than the sorts of roles our kids generally seek now because they aren’t conditioned to hard graft.
You can earn £52k a year easily cleaning windows with the water fed pole system I mean just windows not fascias and conservatory roofs etc Can work in all weathers but here in Hertfordshire an average house is £15-20 and takes about 10 minutes That’s why I gave up full time plastering and just do a couple jobs a week My son is 23 and plumbing on new builds and easily does around a grand a week His girlfriend is a sparky self employed and earns around 40k also Don’t know where those figures come from
I'm a groundworker in Lancashire earning a decent wage. They have shot up over the last 5 years. But I disagree with the joiners (carpenters) self employed lads are earning over a grand a week after tax on first fix, not including chamber floors and truss'
Amd most of them trades if not all offer no pension no paid holidays no sick pay etc......glad I got out into a boring but better office job. Self employed youve also gotta run a van, collect your materials, get insured, advertise etc and your day doesnt end when you ve stopped the actual job for the day......its a mugs game.
Guessing these rates are self employed chasing domestic. Working for a contractor subbing for housebuilders pays less, but regularly without the hassle of hunting the next job.
@@vitsin87 van, tools, testers, training, registered body subscription, accountant, invoice software subscription, holiday and sick pay, is paying for all of these things greed too?
I’m a plasterer my self and I make about that but I’ve only been plastering for 3 years so I think for someone with more experience would make more money
Interesting video... Always enjoy watching them.. Wage rates vary so much on location. Down here in London I was chatting to a guy that delivered charcoal, he was on the 1st train with me which was 05:50 and normally on the 15:30 coming home... His Basic was £45K Nuts really when you see what we earn in the building trade.. I fit kitchens before I get moaned at...
I'm a share holder at a central bank and create my stipend of currency when I like. If you enter my trade you will go to prison for 40 years. It's a closed trade we don't tell people how we did it, they wouldn't like it. I am a bricke, trying to get some tips on plastering.
That is a suprise the window lickers being near to the top. Mind you glass is very heavy and theres not alot of room for error and you deff dont want to be dropping it.
I’m a plasterer in the same areas as you Hastings to Brighton on the other side Tunbridgewells etc. I’m on £200 a day and roughly 30-40k a year I’d say
I'm a carpenter in the states with a small remodeling business. I make about 60-70 per hour before taxes...once the government gets to me i make about $50 per hour
The poor oul Groundworker is the Black sheep of the Trades, never gets a mention, But you would be surprised to know that an Good experienced Groundworkers rate, would be near the top of your list.
My mates a tape and jointer and he got 60 k last year on price work big sites I’m a plasterer on site and got 30k as an apprentice plasterer iv now teemed up up with another lad hopefully should be making 300 to 350 a day each on price work I would defo recommend as a young plasterer to go out on site and go on price with a mate less stress then doing domestic work pricing up jobs loosing time and money
@@PlasteringForBeginners you get 70-80p per brick if your lucky you might get the odd day you lay 1500 brick between a 2/1 gang, pay your labourer etc. like you say all the wet days and I guarantee you won’t do 1500 bricks everyday. If you only did gables with no windows every day maybe😂
Im a painter i made 50k last year ? Dont matter what trade your in its how good you are and what work you can get infront of tou not everything is black and white
@@jimbean233 i think plastering on site is one of the hardest trades to earn big money, have to kill your self to do a grand yet other trades seem to do that money with ease, its why i dont do alot of site work if i can help it
Where are these figures coming from? £29,100 for a roofer? That’s roughly £110 a day. I was earning more than that in 2001. I think wages in the South East must be A LOT different to the rest of the country.
I'm sure there pay is very much higher, all the houses round the expensive areas where I live have trade vans outside - I'm sure this is due to not declaring a lot of their earnings. Pretty disgusted at what they are getting - I have done all the plumbing, carpentry and painting in my all my houses which shows I can do their jobs but they couldn't do many other jobs without years of training. The amounts they try and charge are ridiculous and they get away with it due to shortages. Why are people going to bother doing physics, engineering, medicine if they get paid more for sticking some tubes together to make a long pipe - I think we all need a living wage but the disparity in wages between different job types is insane - my local hairdresser wants more for sticking some highlights in your hair (again you can do yourself with hair dye kit) than it costs to get a consultation with the top consultant heart surgeon in the area.
It’s completely wrong, every actual tradesmen (not a painter) are minimum £200 now days, maybe £160-£180 if you’re employed! As a roofer/general builder, I think a decent Chippy should be on the most, agree with what you said. If you’re not pricing £250 a day self employed, you might as well work for someone
Unfortunately wages arnt based on how much your tools cost...would be nice though if it worked that way but its basic economics There's a huge demand for Bricklayers and very few about if any decent lads anymore. Im working on a job where one of the new build houses is having a thatched roof. The thatcher thats doing it has hardly any hand tools in comparison to yourself but is the only one of 2 guys in the whole of the East Midlands...its a 4 week contract for him and his wage bill is 35k, that's just shy of 9k a week wages and he is fully booked for the next 3 yrs. Supply and demand means he can charge what he wants 👍 and his worth is huge.
Bagged render is more expensive than sand and cement some people won’t pay it that’s why a lot of people still want it done the traditional way with sand and cement and not spayed on
"Probably explains why scaffolders are a bit higher than decorators" you hit the nail on the head there mate. 😂
My plumber charged me £1300 for two days work fitting a bath and changing pipes. Bath and taps supplied by me. Also £260 for replacing 2 radiators that I supplied.
My electrician charged me £1400 for 3 days work just Labour and certificates
My plasterer charged me £180 for a days Labour I supplied all the materials.
The plumber worked for a business and the other two were sole traders.
Apart from gas I am now going to all my own plumbing from now on. As for Brickies you would rather knock a wall down and replace with a wooden fence than pay their extortionate prices. The problem in this country is too much red tape for a sole trader to take in an apprentice. Big government intervention has messed this country up. They would rather bring in cheap Labour.
Plastering is a art not everyone can do it no matter how hard they try but plumbing can be learnt by anyone
As a self employed painter and decorator 30yr you know the ones if you can piss you can paint we are a finishing trade and a vast majority of my time is taken up making good and making stuff look pretty for the client bad miters, ify plastering, holes left by Mr sparky and his mate Pete the plumb have even had to repoint walls to paint because the brickie knew is was to be painted, replace broken panes because there's no glazers, even had to tell Steve the scaf where the boards should be. Yeah we the lowest paid.
But without us the job ain't finished and that means unhappy client.
I love my job and that means more to me.
Top video.
Keep it up keep it real.
I’m a roofer and plasterer to trade with own business in Edinburgh. I’m minimum £200 per day. Plus £50 for ladders going up. Another £50 for roof ladders. Higher buildings are more cash for danger money.
I’m a site plasterer in the midlands and earn way way more than that. It’s hard work but always made good money. It’s all between the ears.
Great vid but it does vary massively throughout the country. I’m plumber& Gas engineer in London and charge out my labour at £400 pd… no one bats an eyelid at that price
I'm surprised there was no mention of tilers. That's a skilled job and there's decent money to be made, especially in Victorian tiling. At a guess, I reckon they earn as much as plasterers, but I might be wrong.
I've been tiling 35 years and years back i done geometric tiling and yes, it was good money but there's not much demand for it nowadays. I haven't been asked to do any geometric jobs for some time now. As for pay, as with any trade, depends where you are and demand. I'm to old for site work now and where i live tilers are two a penny. To many tilers after not enough work and prices have dropped. I was making more money on a more regular basis 25 years ago doing commercial contract work. Had enough of it TBH.
@@tilerman That's really interesting to hear. I was under the impression that since we left the EU the demand for tilers was on the rise, especially in London. I work as a plasterer's laborer and the tilers were earning similar money to the plasterers, but I'm guessing there are going to be variations across the country.
Iam a lime plasterer, and we earn a bit more than the average trade, but it took 3 years in college and 1 year in Europe, learning modern float and set lime skills but worth it for a bit more cash every day
Lime plasterer?
For 500 a day for bricklaying u gotta be on price and laying 200+ blocks a day to or let’s say 800 bricks but then labourers are expensive too
I’m a bricky on a price and the money varies so much just due to things which are out of our control, such as you turn up to the job and your scaffold hasn’t been raised, you’ve ran out of sand, cement, which as labour only you can’t control. And of course the weather is a big factor but you have to make hay while the sun shines👍
Im a Bricklayer and i would agree with this im self employed but would say over the 25yrs of being a bricky my earnings have always been fairly high in comparison to the other trades...the last generation of bricklayers have all but gone im 43 and not seen anybody coming into the trade for at least the last 15 yrs. So there isn't many guys left and even less good guys around. My dad was a bricklayer and always told me they were the top of tree on a building site and I have to agree although I have admiration for all the trades. The better way of looking at it is an old site agent once said to me a pound for pound you get more from a bricklayer than any other trade and when you put it like that you really do.
I’m a joiner, in east Anglia. There’s always work as we work mostly inside but the money is poor for how skilled it is and working to fine margins, lots of different machinery.
Pay of 28500 a year. Definitely looking to change trades
I was an apprentice sparky when I left school for 3 years and hated it as Im scared of heights and could never get over it. Worked with lots of trades all over the uk and they all worked really hard. I'm glad I got out as I see people who aren't good for much after 55 due to the elements taking their toll. I believe trades people should have an extra government subsidy to aid with early retirement and access to paid holidays.
Plasterers up here (Scotland), are on roughly 35k employed. Self employed is around £250 a day, sometimes more.
Most decent decorators I know are making £200 a day, and yes other trades generally more!
I have my ltd company I'm making 250-400 a day as a decorator which I run my own business but the minimum is 250 that I make so as a decorator I'm really happy with my earnings. Cheers.
I was a bricklayer and retrained as a surveyor after a few years on the job. My back was literally broken after only 7 years in the game. They deserve that pay!
I worked with bricklayers before, and the highest they've earned in one day was £600!
I am thinking of retraining as a surveyor...I found Sava, who did you do it with and would you say you made the right choice??
@@Jaaammmbbbooo sava is good, but expensive and rubbish finance options. I did mine through Northumbria university. Student finance is way more affordable than sava !
Bricklayers are pampered beyond belief try a week scaffolding then moan about laying a brick
you didn't look after your back that's why there's 70 year old bricklayers still in the game
Ireland. Best payed are electricians and plumbers. Self employed painters, plasterers and block layers get top dollar as their is shortage of those trades.
I have been laying bricks for over 40 years, left the UK at 21, weather here in Australia is definitely better for out side trades, pay here is on average higher than the UK, but haven said that the cost of living is extremely expensive
Hi, when you take the extremely high cost of living in Australia into account, are you financially better off in Australia than you would be in the UK?
@@ryokan9120 aus is better i went to sydney prices are same as london but wages are more. Overall quality of life in aus is 100 times better than the uk.
The other thing about Chippying is the amount of tools.
I'm shocked Gas wasn't on there. As sub contractor for British gas you can get £1500 a week
For his overall knowledge on site and the fact that they basically set out most jobs and run them and pulling all separate trades together on most sites in the right sequence the Chippie’s should b rewarded more in there pay packets after all for donkeys years they were always the ones made up to foreman’s and agents it wasn’t that way for no reason it was because of there knowledge of all the trades and the way they could pull them all together to complete a project
Missed out Heating engineers on 90k a year in London.
As a builder covering all trades amd all over country I don't think the positions are far out although a little low for some ! My plasterers generally on £20 pH 50 hour week 48 weeks a year ...... well they on a good pull I might need to have a pay review 🤔
I’m a plasterer I’ll come and work for you😂😂😂😂 on those prices
Thanks for sharing your experiences mate - I know from my own experience that the plasterers seem more to be honest 👍
I'm city & guilds level 2 in plastering, bricklaying and joinery. I do handyman work due to having a knackered back. I make £160 per day in North east.
Are used to do a lot of painting and decorating, but now I do a lot of spraying of kitchens and furniture, and plaster spraying , much more money
I think one of the reasons glaziers are high earners is because of Grenfell. My mate (a glazier) has been fitting fire doors since that happened and he earns a good old chunk.
I'm into Specialist Cleaning (NorthEast England) Cleaning all flooring types inside and out and easy do £350 most days...
I am a former Welder Fabricator of 20 years and earned considerably less....
Who knew lol.....
I started going to college at 14 one day a week as part of a programme with my school doing brickwork for 2 years and managed to place 2nd in the guild of brickwork competition. Left school at 16 and did a 2 year carpentry apprenticeship. Then when straight back to do a 16 week plastering course. I’m currently 23 being paid 30k salary but charge £200 day rate on side jobs.
With those skills i would suggest starting out on your own asap. If the customer dosent have a double garage take a pass. If you dont already live there move South.
@@trig thanks man, am currently working in North Somerset, and I’m just starting out in property development finished and sold my first house last year.
@@winterape8840 Good for you Dude! I wish I had your vision and hadnt pissed away the best twenty years of my life. Quality, more than cash, is King.
Bit of a controversial topic this one and one I don’t talk about on my channel ( even though I had more comments about that then anything else) but I basically put myself out between )200 and £300 a day, some days are better some days are worse, but that’s me sourcing my own work, sourcing my own materials which can be driving to multiple suppliers and actually doing the job.
Remember there's levels. Pay yourself what your worth. By now people should know you get what you pay for.
Do you want a crap joiner for £200 a day or a joiner that will treat your job like its his own home. Won't do anything he wouldn't do in his own home. Fast and attention to detail is on point. £400 a day sir. LEVELS in every trade. Too many cowboys out there.
2k a week....not a cowboy lol
National "declared averages" But the world is changing with digital. Maybe not for the right reasons.
Very true my friend!
Although not technically a trade; Site managers are in high demand & make decent money, without having to work the tools.
A lot of site managers seem to be ex-chippies or brickies.
Not worth the stress
Rates for all trades in Northern England gone up in the last couple of years. If your reliable and do a good job then you'll never be out of work.
Multi trade all day I think can make the most
Glaziers are raking it in, no wonder doughnuts have gotten so exspensive
😂😂😂
Plastering for 20 years now. I would say a self employed exprienced plasterer you should be getting £200 a day plus. Obviously jobs Very but that's the amount you should aim for. The Salaries are prob not to far out, but what it doesn't take trades like gas/plumbing and electrics if you go self employed your wages will be so much higher where alot of plumbers and electricans are more likely employed not self-employed compared to the other trades.
Putty and paint makes a chippy a saint!as a self employed painter decorator I charge minimum 200 per day but often earn more,I work in private homes and the money is quite good,I worked on sites as painter and its the lowest of the low but going into peoples private homes there is a lot more respect for a painter compared to on the sites
They both got me. Got roof replaced and interior plaster fell down.
What makes me sick is the public sector offering 70k plus for nonsense diversity officers.
Non-jobs mate. Think you’ll find it’s more than 70k also.
Tradesmen keep the country running, these diversity officers get paid to work 3/4 days a week and all they do is sit in stupid meetings for an hour a day.
But like any job its supply and demand and we may not see the need for a diversity officer but the fact that it sounds so vague and uncommon means that there aren't many capable to do it so the job commands a high salary.
Why is it nonsense?
@@enjek5654 because the poster is a small-minded little Englander
I'm a slate/tiler roofer,roughcaster do sand and cement work k-rend, silicone thin coat rendering, coving plastering ,dot dabbing and lead work earn a decent wage and do a decent job tried venetian plastering but no market for around my area so going to start learning lead burning every days different work 7 days a week and most nights I'm that busy the now but balance work and family life and I love it
Respect mate - you have a lot of skills under your belt and you seem like a proper grafter. Great stuff…fair play!
Jack of all master of absolutely none . Time served NO. Chancer yes work standards usually very poor. But will make out there the Best of the Best . This is why anybody can call themselves what they like in the Building Trade no proof needed. Total Joke Really.🇬🇧💩🇬🇧💩🇬🇧💩🤡🤡
@@davidrobinson6353 I do them all to a high standard ,don't do alot of lead work but will be working on that shine light on all my work when its painted and that's all the proof I need that I leave a good job my slate and tile valleys are cut straight as lines on the the roof are as straight as you will get, i'm no chancer m8 I take pride in my work
Groundworkers are on a fair bit mate. If its national average then it makes sense.
Good point pal!
I make allot more than listed mainly painting but I have my own company, my advice would be don’t even bother painting unless your gonna get your own firm it’s absolute madness! Hard work and on top of that everyone thinks it’s easy haha. Get your own firm, make commercial contacts and don’t be shy giving drinks to whoever gave you the contract! Peace
Very difficult to compare wages mate Im a joiner working in northeast of England supposedly lowest paid areas, made 35000 last year in ten month had two month off sky is the limit for price work tradesmen
Surprised roofers aren't higher up, with the weather, the fact that you are at heights, plus it's a mixed sport, bricklaying, lead work, window fitting, pointing, carpentry and more it's not just replacing a few tiles, all at height and not always with scaffolding.
I'm a stonemason. Don't touch restoration. Work on big one off projects that tend to be quite special and work with almost any stone. My boss charges the client more, I get £25 ph, 8-16/17.00. 6yrs as groundwork and hard landscaping, 4 yrs hitting rock! I'm self-employed and work all over the country, often staying away. All my joints hurt!!
i did my first 3 years of work as a traditional glazier, and upvc W&D, and glass shop work , ive never seen a well paid glazier job advertised, , , , maybe its the curtain wallers who get well paid?, , , , glass shop work is little more than minimum wage.
Not sure if these numbers are accurate. A lazy sparky will the uk will make £60k in the uk absolutely minimum. Some makes over 100k a year.
The Sparks wages did Seem low to be honest
Hilarious! Im assuming these are gross figures? Taking £33k, as an example, that equates to £130 a day gross assuming a 21 day working month. In the SE you wouldn’t get a trade to answer their phone for that money. I assume these figures are after some creative accounting? My son did his A-levels and I suggested he do a higher apprenticeship in plumbing or sparks. Notwithstanding to highs and lows of building demands, it’s far better paid than the sorts of roles our kids generally seek now because they aren’t conditioned to hard graft.
You can earn £52k a year easily cleaning windows with the water fed pole system
I mean just windows not fascias and conservatory roofs etc
Can work in all weathers but here in Hertfordshire an average house is £15-20 and takes about 10 minutes
That’s why I gave up full time plastering and just do a couple jobs a week
My son is 23 and plumbing on new builds and easily does around a grand a week
His girlfriend is a sparky self employed and earns around 40k also
Don’t know where those figures come from
I'm a groundworker in Lancashire earning a decent wage. They have shot up over the last 5 years. But I disagree with the joiners (carpenters) self employed lads are earning over a grand a week after tax on first fix, not including chamber floors and truss'
I'm getting £230 a day 8-4 bricklaying in Essex , I'd say £220 is roughly the day rate around here
That’s day work though, I’m taking £520 a day average on price! Most the builds are square boxes and straight runs now days
I'd say that rate is about spot on for day work lads 👍
Amd most of them trades if not all offer no pension no paid holidays no sick pay etc......glad I got out into a boring but better office job.
Self employed youve also gotta run a van, collect your materials, get insured, advertise etc and your day doesnt end when you ve stopped the actual job for the day......its a mugs game.
Guessing these rates are self employed chasing domestic.
Working for a contractor subbing for housebuilders pays less, but regularly without the hassle of hunting the next job.
Gotta take fiddle work into it also! Love your vids watched them for years
Surprised about Glazers but the rest seems about right in Portsmouth.
I’m a sparky up north, £280 a day but thinking of £320 next year, inflation is creeping
It's bad but not 200 a week man!
Man thats just greed
@@vitsin87 van, tools, testers, training, registered body subscription, accountant, invoice software subscription, holiday and sick pay, is paying for all of these things greed too?
@@megazeus7972 sure is 😆
@@vitsin87 🤡
I’m a plasterer my self and I make about that but I’ve only been plastering for 3 years so I think for someone with more experience would make more money
Interesting video... Always enjoy watching them.. Wage rates vary so much on location. Down here in London I was chatting to a guy that delivered charcoal, he was on the 1st train with me which was 05:50 and normally on the 15:30 coming home... His Basic was £45K Nuts really when you see what we earn in the building trade.. I fit kitchens before I get moaned at...
Im surprised Drylining was not on the list
I’m a ground worker. I’m on £240 a day that’s with a van and fuel card. Self employed
I'm a share holder at a central bank and create my stipend of currency when I like. If you enter my trade you will go to prison for 40 years. It's a closed trade we don't tell people how we did it, they wouldn't like it. I am a bricke, trying to get some tips on plastering.
That is a suprise the window lickers being near to the top. Mind you glass is very heavy and theres not alot of room for error and you deff dont want to be dropping it.
Very true mate. But I was also very surprised pal!
I fit kitchens for myself and make around £500 a day
It's down to the individual
Gas work plumbers are by far the biggest earners
👍👍👍
Boiler swap £1000 labour. A days work
I’m a plasterer in the same areas as you Hastings to Brighton on the other side Tunbridgewells etc.
I’m on £200 a day and roughly 30-40k a year I’d say
Think your linked video is wrong at the end? It links to a video stapling beads and doesn't relate to how much you earn
Weird?? I’ve reposted the link in the deception and tested it so it should be working now pal. Thanks for letting me know 👍
@@PlasteringForBeginners can't see the link in your description either?
@@mattryan1986 go into plastering for beginners Nd scroll down videos. There's one in there somewhere
Leaching brick barons
Glazier definitely a surprise. No Stonemasons on the list?
I'm a carpenter in the states with a small remodeling business. I make about
60-70 per hour before taxes...once the government gets to me i make about $50 per hour
The poor oul Groundworker is the Black sheep of the Trades, never gets a mention, But you would be surprised to know that an Good experienced Groundworkers rate, would be near the top of your list.
My mates a tape and jointer and he got 60 k last year on price work big sites I’m a plasterer on site and got 30k as an apprentice plasterer iv now teemed up up with another lad hopefully should be making 300 to 350 a day each on price work I would defo recommend as a young plasterer to go out on site and go on price with a mate less stress then doing domestic work pricing up jobs loosing time and money
Site rates are terrible got to flog your tits off for 300 a day. Get 10 to 20 a metre domestic no brainer
I'm a roofer and if I earned 29k a year I would be embarrassed
These must all be cards in figures based on day work rates i don't know any good self employed tradesmen including painters making less than200 a day
Well said about the chippies you are bang on there BUT PLASTERING will get you more money than joinery this is fact ....... NEITHER TRADE IS ANY GOOD
Spreading in Bristol your looking at £210 a day but that is self employed.
I'm employed plaster make 29,000 plus bonus in greater Manchester. Shite wages but vam, fuel ect included balances it out a little
I’d say epoxy resin flooring contractors r killing it the last one I spoke to earned over 200 grand last year
On what planet lol
@@davidhill431 60 grand on 1 job fella
Forgot tilers! Them boys are cleaning up
I’m a brickie I’m pretty sure there’s not alit of us earning £500 a day every day tbh mate, must have it mixed up with plumbers😂
Haha fair enough pal. Plumber it is 😂😂
Here’s the link to the article I was talking about. It’s actually £600 a day 😱
@@PlasteringForBeginners you get 70-80p per brick if your lucky you might get the odd day you lay 1500 brick between a 2/1 gang, pay your labourer etc.
like you say all the wet days and I guarantee you won’t do 1500 bricks everyday. If you only did gables with no windows every day maybe😂
on price easy but take into account paying the hod carrier
Im a painter i made 50k last year ? Dont matter what trade your in its how good you are and what work you can get infront of tou not everything is black and white
I would say this is quite useless as a summary most trades theses days are self employed sub-contract
Scottish roofer 47k and only work 6 months a year
Interesting I'm a site plasterer on around £1700 per week average!
Must be doing some serious spreading then lad
@@danielmills4898 yep about 90m2 a day on my tod! No one said plastering was easy! Ever 😂
@@jimbean233 we get around 1600 for a decent sized 4 bed on site, in the midlands,
That's exploitation unfortunately!
@@jimbean233 i think plastering on site is one of the hardest trades to earn big money, have to kill your self to do a grand yet other trades seem to do that money with ease, its why i dont do alot of site work if i can help it
Spray Renderers earns the most money. A render not a plasterer
I’m on just the right amount to keep me under that vat threshold if you know what I mean lads 😉
Where are these figures coming from? £29,100 for a roofer? That’s roughly £110 a day.
I was earning more than that in 2001.
I think wages in the South East must be A LOT different to the rest of the country.
What about landscape gardener
You forgot about tilers😢
They wasn’t in the article unfortunately mate!
Is that a trade 🤣 joking.
I'm sure there pay is very much higher, all the houses round the expensive areas where I live have trade vans outside - I'm sure this is due to not declaring a lot of their earnings. Pretty disgusted at what they are getting - I have done all the plumbing, carpentry and painting in my all my houses which shows I can do their jobs but they couldn't do many other jobs without years of training. The amounts they try and charge are ridiculous and they get away with it due to shortages. Why are people going to bother doing physics, engineering, medicine if they get paid more for sticking some tubes together to make a long pipe - I think we all need a living wage but the disparity in wages between different job types is insane - my local hairdresser wants more for sticking some highlights in your hair (again you can do yourself with hair dye kit) than it costs to get a consultation with the top consultant heart surgeon in the area.
Glaziers are making good on ManU
It’s completely wrong, every actual tradesmen (not a painter) are minimum £200 now days, maybe £160-£180 if you’re employed! As a roofer/general builder, I think a decent Chippy should be on the most, agree with what you said. If you’re not pricing £250 a day self employed, you might as well work for someone
here in ireland good plasterer €300 per day min
I'm a joiner in Northern Ireland my tools cost six thousand pounds how much for a bricklayers tools
Unfortunately wages arnt based on how much your tools cost...would be nice though if it worked that way but its basic economics There's a huge demand for Bricklayers and very few about if any decent lads anymore. Im working on a job where one of the new build houses is having a thatched roof. The thatcher thats doing it has hardly any hand tools in comparison to yourself but is the only one of 2 guys in the whole of the East Midlands...its a 4 week contract for him and his wage bill is 35k, that's just shy of 9k a week wages and he is fully booked for the next 3 yrs. Supply and demand means he can charge what he wants 👍 and his worth is huge.
Window fitters can earn a few quid
Fair play to them!
Is spray plastering, better paid than traditional plastering? These days.
Bagged render is more expensive than sand and cement some people won’t pay it that’s why a lot of people still want it done the traditional way with sand and cement and not spayed on
Self employed civil engineer £450 shift + bonuses and I only work about 4hrs a day if it isn't raining, foggy, snowing or to windy 🤣
Kevin bloody wilson reckon's it's the local plumber ahahah