[pessimizer]

> Ms Wait would have to break her back schlepping spools around a jobsite for a few years before she could get onto the actual electrician career track.

Ms Wait would be paid >=$15 to do this.

[throwaway0a5e]

Maybe she'd get $16, but anywhere where data-center techs are making 15 general construction laborers aren't gonna be making much more and they don't get to work indoors.

[simfree]

In Seattle today, union electrical apprentices often earn under $18hr, while Safeway is paying new hires $20hr in Seattle and Bellevue.

General construction does not pay that much unless your licensed, bonded and running your own business or have a decade or more in with the union.