Matt Baxter

iTrader: (37)

I have been a tester for about 7-8 years and always worked for the same place(the same place that put me through it)

But want to move so what sort of money should I be looking/asking for?

pm me if you want

NEO™®©

im a tester and i dont even know if my wages are any good lol probably not at 400 a week take home

radiant red

im doing 30000 up north mate, slightly above going rate. Theres a shortage of GOOD mechanic/testers so shop about

rssteve

over £28,000 a year seems good for an mot tester. What area do you work in then?

whats the going rate then and how many years trainind is needed?

Matt Baxter

iTrader: (37)

well you all earn a fair bit more than me

also how many tests do you do a day as we only do them in the morning dont know why it has always been like this

radiant red

suppose you can fail them then fix in the afternoon. We do between 8 and 12 a day which is a lot for a small garage. Do a lot of headgaskets,timing belts etc

rssteve

i thought since it was computerised you could only do 1 mot per set amount of time, not sure what the time is. Thats what the local garage told me anyway

Lambchop

iTrader: (1)

would any of you pass my hydraulic handbrake?

Anonymous

saph4be

fuck me yuur lucky to get 20k a year round here

Matt Baxter

iTrader: (37)

wheres that then

thats about what i am on

cossie604

iTrader: (2)

Same here...around 23k in Leicestershire area. tbh tho I only do the odd mot during the week and a few every other saturday morning. Think I need to get nagging for a pay rise...not had one for 3yrs

rssteve: with one bay you can officialy have 2 mot's logged on at the same time as the mot bay is devided between a ramp (car number 1) and a brake tester/emissions analyser (car number 2)

runty176

i was on 22000 a year before i set up my own worhsop last year .
i did more on the spanners than m.o.t's . we were doing about 20 a day
(2 of us together) haverhill suffolk (canbridge)

NEO™®©

all i do is mots all day 10-13 ish a day in romford

coco16i

Thats a shit load of money every day aint it !!!!!!


Just got my wages up to £10 an hour which i suppose is quite good for the area im in but still not fantastic considering have been doing this work for over 20 years !!!!

Dont really do that many mot's in a day, could do 6 or 7 one day then not have any for a few days as busy with other service and repair work or breakdown recoverys.

Some of the perks of the job make up for it though as get to use the ramps whenever i want and get to do my own mot's.

NEO™®©

me too got me own set of keys to the workshop so can leave whenever i like or if i need to fix me car at midnight i can very lenient boss spose im lucky really