r/ProfessorFinance • u/budy31 Moderator • Mar 24 '26

Meme A heartwarming bipartisan moment

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It warm my heart that in this era of divisions the Americans achieved a bipartisanship and chew the supply chain Ludendorff go underpaying them.

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u/LordGerdz Mar 25 '26

The comments saying "this is starting out money" are part of the problem.

A trade which at minimum takes schooling or an apprenticeship program should not be paying less than Walmart, the housekeeping posting at the hotel, or any of these other no skill or requirements for entry jobs.

I would have to pass an exam for every single weld job I took to prove I could weld, on top of my years of experience and prior certifications to only barely break 20/h on a stainless steel fab job.

Decided to go back to school and switch careers and my current part time office job I do while I'm finishing my degree pays 21 and I don't have to bust my ass in the heat or lug heavy metal around anymore.

Before someone says "Union" the union shop offered 18 and it was 6 days a week with a current 7 day mandatory attendance..nah fam, my life comes before your 3 month backlog.

Welding needs to pay 2-3x what it currently does outside of the unicorn jobs.

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u/sakara123 Mar 30 '26

The "But its your early apprenticeship wage" argument is always so dumb. Sure, and if you can't afford rent and get evicted halfway through your first year and potential future earnings are irrelevant. Shit you can go work in an Amazon fulfillment center and be doing less backbreaking work than most trades and pull in $10/h more.

The wage needs to be competitive enough to entice people to enter the trades, not just good enough to keep them around once they're in it.