[HDBaseT]

Tradespeople have always been getting paid well with lots of work.

Most electricians will make more than the average sysadmin, senior developer or network engineer here.

The amount of people getting into trades over the past decade has dropped drastically. There is no reason a fully qualified, even residential electrician cannot make 200k a year. Electricians aren't even the highest paid trade, plumbers are.

[someothherguyy]

> There is no reason a fully qualified, even residential electrician cannot make 200k a year

Where?

BLS Data

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/construction-and-extraction/electric...

"The median annual wage for electricians was $62,350 in May 2024. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $39,430, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $106,030."

Seems like there is overwhelming reason for one to not make $200k/year.

[dahart]

> Tradespeople have always been getting paid well with lots of work. > Most electricians will make more than the average sysadmin, senior developer or network engineer here.

Where are you getting this? The median plumber in the US makes just under $63k, which is below the ~$65k median pay for all jobs in the US. The median sysadmin makes over $96k - a more than 50% higher median. The top 10% bracket for sysadmins is also 50% higher than plumbers. Why are people claiming that plumbers and tradespeople are raking it in when they’re clearly not?

> The amount of people getting into trades over the past decade has dropped drastically

The BLS projections for the next decade have plumbers at 4% growth and sysadmins at -4% - in decline.

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/construction-and-extraction/plumbers...

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...