The TOP Paying Trades Job in 2024

Stucco is about $15-20 Sq ft in Canada/GTA and that shit adds up.

Trades don't pay shit! I was an electrician and a journeyman makes $21/hr where I live. What a phucking joke! Quit and getting my engineering degree. Gonna make some real money!

Im in canada as a mechanic for 5-10 years now and the pay absolutely suck i can barely survive here

Any trade you can make a lot of money if you put your time in

After 2 yrs of wasting my money on an mechanical engineering degree I decided to get my CDL and have now switched over to going to trade school for a millwright and was wondering if there’s any guys in here in the trade and wondering what there opinions are on it. I’m mainly going for it for job security and what I’ve heard your doing different shit regularly which I’m more than happy about. Kinda just wanting to see what the average guy can make in the trade and if you guys can give me some tricks or pointers of the trade for a 21yr old just getting in it’d be much appreciated.

can girls do this?

I’m a small one man show electrical contractor. Great trade-teaming up with a plumber and hvac guy and making a new biz…Trades are great. It is very very hard finding good reliable help. Most guys you will hire you can’t depend on. When I do bigger jobs, I just get guys from bigger contractors for a couple days-you pay more-but you don’t have to worry about keeping people working and you can still take on bigger jobs-dream big.

I used to be an elevator mechanic in NYC early 90's. It was a great paying job back then and I was in local 3 IBEW. If NY didn't suck so bad I'd still be doing it probably

Sheet metal worker, over 100k and home every night

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#2 commercial A/C installer
#3 commercial gas fitter
#4 plumber
#5 Lanscaper
#6 Electrician
#7 motor mechanic
#8 locksmith
Most of these are $175k / year

I just got fired from my tech job for a major mistake. I have some sort of problem that impacts my ability to focus on a task for hours at a time with no lapse. I have a business degree and working on the site made me realize how much potential a masters in engineering has. I need to have a powerful and knowledgeable enough background where i cannot be turned away or terminated without SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES befalling the company that dares to let me go. I need to be the best at what i do. Life isnt worth living to me if i cant be that.

Escalators can never break down. They just become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs..... Sorry for the CONVIENCE!

- Mitch Hedberg

How do you get into that field?

It's one of the most dangerous jobs too.

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it has it's ups and downs

Elevator installation is a tough, physically demanding job, so be ready to work your butt off every day.

Yea nobody wants to do that job cause you have to always work/live in a city environment and then your good wages get absorbed by that high cost of living

Navy certified pipefitter/coppersmith and Los Angeles City Inspector for 30 years here; The best and highest paying jobs in the building trades I know of are, Deputy Inspectors, they are required in many trades, and don't require apprenticeship experience. You can work observing others doing the job, and just writing a report for adherence to code requirements. You can have independence, and charge what you want.once you become known, you work whatever hours YOU want, as much or little as you like. You can find out more through the materials control division of LADBS. There are many new requirements for Deputy Inspectors all the time, just find out the requirements, pass the test, get certified and work.Good Luck !

My dad owned a small company archer elevator in new york.

I hear it has its ups and downs though.

Collision repair tech. Making 130 a year

You're super awesome for saying repairpeople.

Elevators things that won't be around in the future

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Seems like an up and down industry 😂😂

They were the biggest prima donnas to have working on site. More or less milking it for overtime and making you foot the bill for them showing up to the job behind schedule

He’s forgetting that the 10 percent that make that much, and most, live in big cities with big buildings that need elevators, NYC drastically inflates the number, these guys don’t make anymore then an electrician in most of the country🙃

It's not just high rises,it's man lifts, wheel chair lifts,residential,hydraulic elevators,side walk lifts, escalators,freight elevator, and material lifts.But a lot are passenger 2 stop hydraulic. As a Elevator Mechanic we have the job of electrician,Pipefitter and mechanic. The job is very dangerous. I myself have climbed over 500 feet several times up the side of a smoke stack to get a man lift back down because the controllers are built inside the cab. It definitely has its ups and downs, but it does not pay enough. The risk is no longer worth the reward when electricians and Hvac guys are almost making the same nowadays. At one point, it was the highest paid trade. Millwright make more, but they travel a lot. Do a video on Millwrights.

It’s also one of the highest risk jobs there is

And always remember control work.. many elevators need access cards, all need to work in conjunction with the fire alarm and many need additional control work for additional security...all of this requires an elevator person that knows what they are doing.. just getting to smoke detectors at the top and bottom of the shaft require the elevator company to test it and inspect and clean it

I used to work at a hotel in Texas & the elevator would need repairs about twice a month, sometimes more.

Its an WINDERFUL JOB. Except the TOP TEN 10% MY GFs dad dis this for 20 years made litterly an million big ones over that time and he built and house for his kids with the knowledge of that triad he built it up to hospital spects and payed it all off. BUT HE was an math Brained person, if your stupid like me in math you'll never ever make it in an triad job like this. Don't forget to put that in there too😂

Trucking. 100k+ after 3-5 years.

A co worker left to go work for a local elevator conpany. Our boss told him he wont make more money and that he is a fool. It was a pay cut to start with but after a coupke uears he is making more then our boss was. Has a company truck and free gas. He is treated really well. I am happy for him. Was almost hired as his apprentice

U should grow a cool beard. Maybe braid it. Look like a pirate…

Until and elevator crushes you

Good luck getting in I’ve been waiting for a year

Nah, I hate heights. Even the thought of looking down an elevator shaft terrifies me. For now I’ll keep cutting it as a mechanic

I’m a Fiber optic lineman/installer, and make approx 300k/yr

I moved to Wyoming... This state is not ideal for elevators and escalators. I believe there are two escalators in the whole state lol.

I like doing refrigeration myself

The fact that this guy just always overlooks a union lineman is crazy

I do elevators in south Georgia and the pay is not even close to that around here unless your union and they still ain't that close especially not with union tithes

You're a Plumber and you're pushing another trade.???????????

English lift engineer here. In England, the industry is desperate for new engineers. That's made the salary go nuts. My money has nearly doubled in the last 2 or 3 years. You can quite easily earn 70 or 80000 pounds a year. I know self employed engineers that earn 120000 pound a year

Welding is the best I got a buddy making $5,500 a week with no diploma 23 years old

8k a month doing sheetmetal or refrigeration, and I’m only 21

We have 14 elevators in the hospital I work at