mechanic/technician wages round london !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[miller3]

just by the flour mill bit by the canal' there is only one road in/out

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[mechanic28]

Originally Posted by miller3

well we have just taken on a couple of guys from your area so if you did get a job you would have to come to hackney for a bit' so not to far

cool

[James]

i'm 22 on £6-50 an hour, thats with main dealer with nvq level 2, key skills 2 (i think!) few other random certificates from ford college daventry, and testing class 4 with five years experience in the workshop. & i'm not in london.

first off it really bugs me when people say i'm still an apprentice/unqualified, i did all the shit jobs and going college every week until 6pm, worked hard and got a qualification at the end! just cos it's not a city & guilds doesn't mean it's irrelevent!

Obviously we're all still learning as we all know it's a fast moving trade but i'm not quite an apprentice!

bttt, i think you're getting a good deal tbh. use of workshop with keys is soo usuful.

personally with bonus and overtimes makes it a well paid job for my area with the amount of work i actually do. Other days i think 6.50 is shit when you consider the amount of money i am making for the company at £70/hour labor rate!

[clarke5700]

Originally Posted by miller3

just by the flour mill bit by the canal' there is only one road in/out

o i no where you mean lol

[dojj]

Originally Posted by James

i'm 22 on £6-50 an hour, thats with main dealer with nvq level 2, key skills 2 (i think!) few other random certificates from ford college daventry, and testing class 4 with five years experience in the workshop. & i'm not in london.

first off it really bugs me when people say i'm still an apprentice/unqualified, i did all the shit jobs and going college every week until 6pm, worked hard and got a qualification at the end! just cos it's not a city & guilds doesn't mean it's irrelevent!

Obviously we're all still learning as we all know it's a fast moving trade but i'm not quite an apprentice!

bttt, i think you're getting a good deal tbh. use of workshop with keys is soo usuful.

personally with bonus and overtimes makes it a well paid job for my area with the amount of work i actually do. Other days i think 6.50 is shit when you consider the amount of money i am making for the company at £70/hour labor rate!

a few years ago i wouldn't have got out of bed for £6.50 an hour, but these days, if you have steady work and can make sure you don't fuck up, any job is a good job mate

although £6.50 is probably the bottom end of the scale for london, it may be a decent rate for the outskirts of civilisation

[Saff/cos1985]

i am an hgv diesel fitter/ brakedown tech for a merc agent i am 23 company van fuel card phone and on 14 pound per hour and i do loads weekend call outs and have be on call and work on motorways and i get 160 bouns and 200 stand by its all about how hard you wanna work and making yourself an indemand fitter i.e when theres somthing that needs doing your the man and you can get pretty far in the trade

[Saff/cos1985]

ps the bouns and standby is payed monthly

[dojj]

people are crying out for heavy diesel fitters though, you will always need lorry's and buses and the like fixing

[miller3]

well as said i work for a commercial hire firm and we have never been busy er, eg the week before christmas we normally pack the yard up with motors that have been off hired till the new year' but this year we were still giving out fresh hires.

[dojj]

work for the council, no one wants to clean out the rubbish lorries

[miller3]

Originally Posted by dojj

work for the council, no one wants to clean out the rubbish lorries

We hire to Hackney council and every day at 10o'clock they come in for any little thing they can just as im sitting down for my breakfast' even tho they have just had there's

[JK99]

Up here in Aberdeen, the average Mechanic would see £10-12 p/h going by what most of my pals in the trade earn.

JC BMW are offering £17 p/h for a night-shift tester so it sounds like we're pretty well payed up here - but the competition with the Oil Industry has probably inflated wages beyond what they should be.

[runty176]

i am in suffolk , was on £10 an hour 3 years ago mechanic/mot tester ,. backstreet . had my own keys + made my money by pj's.
I am now 30 & have my own workshop , probably on less money now , but its all mine !
problem is ...no heating , no breaks . 6 till 6 5 days a week , no one to talk to.
but i love it !!!