Want to bet? At $15 an hour these people will....
“The people who actually build things and do things are graying, and there is no one to take their place.”
Tail-end Boomers are going to be retiring before long, and a whole lot of their jobs will be difficult to fill with today’s younger ones; critical infrastructure jobs in many cases. We’re quietly working away (many with great job security even in our 60’s), and have a lot of unsung skills (developed over many decades from life, mistakes, OJT and sel-learning).
Interesting times are coming, in many ways...
Its fitting.
If you won’t work, you won’t eat.
Eventually the gravy train is gonna dry up.
PAY MORE.
fine by me. I have a highly specialized skill. I gave a quote to someone double my regular rate. They replied, “can you be here tomorrow.”
Want to bet? At $15 an hour these people will....
If the next generation coming up wants to work...they have plenty of money making opportunities because of the woke millenials who don’t. Time will tell if that is the case. But they could make serious bank and leave the millenials in the dust.
Amen.
Yep.... I have heard and seen the same thing with contractors.
My nephew started up a successful electrical contracting business. His staffing shortage extends into journeyman level. It’s way too infrequent that he gets a hardworking, reliable and ambitious apprentice or journeyman. When he does, he treats them like gold and mentors them to higher electrician trade levels. Good and steady performance gets nice $$$. Masters license gets damn good $$$ and contractors license hits jackpot $$$.
I know, let’s bring in more illegals.
This is a very serious issue. Journeymen carpenter plumber mechanic keep the economy working.
It is happening all across the lower end of the service industry. Many are still on unemployment and getting an extra $300 per week bump.
A colleague and I just chatted about this last night as an employee had just posted a review of what it was like to work for his business on glassdoor. Chief complaint? Not the hours or the job itself, it was the pay rate.
Employers need to turn in these folks who are refusing to comeback to work. Some might say employers need to pay more in order to coerce them back, but that will contribute to the price of services and goods causing wild inflation. In a way, these federal bumps to unemployment payments are causing an employee shortage. And is starting to really look like a backdoor attempt to get employers to raise wages high enough to be able to hire.
We build our service structure around a base wage, incentives, and tips. Our service means an employee must be able to work independently and manage themselves successfully. There’s no one supervising their success or failures unless the client notices something or catches them on in-home camera. Their smart phone is used to clock in and out of each appointment and is GPS tracked per location.
Minimum Wage: $8.80 for non-tip employees. Tipped employees $4.40 State of Ohio
Base Rate $10 per hour
Tips 3-4 per hour or 6-8 if routes are close
Incentives 1-2 per hour
Range $11-$20 per hour plus mileage
The end result of “Participation Trophies” ?????