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To: GraceZ who wrote (108293)6/12/2001 5:38:17 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) of 436258
 
Grace - doesn't the hourly rate vary by craft, and also by skill level?

To clarify - would he pay $15 an hour for a carpenter's helper? Strong healthy kid just out of high school, say?

I never worked construction but I used to earn $18 hour as a master lithographer in 1983. Apprentices made a lot less. No union, informal apprenticeship.

Guys who can't show up for work every day never learn a craft well enough to be a master, which requires increasing levels of responsibility. You could conceivably have someone who was a master craftsman and then fell apart but I never saw that.

Someone irresponsible will never get trusted with something that will cost money to fix. They need constant supervision, or you give them something to do that can't be messed up too bad, like cleanup. I wouldn't dignify someone like that with the term "apprentice."
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