The $40 an hour job no one wants
The $40 an hour job no one wants
There's "all the perks you can think of" - but no applicants.
Then it's not a $40/hr job!
Careers NZ says there is a shortage of plumbers and those who are experienced can earn more than $53 an hour.
Right there, the final paragraph of the article.
I don't think that's the paragraph you're looking for to make your point.
He said plumbers would start in the low $30-an-hour range but would earn low-$40s when they were experienced.
Apprentices would start on minimum wage but progress fairly quickly towards $30 an hour.
If you’re charging your plumbers out at $110 per hour (minimum hours, plus travel, plus parts) and only paying them $30..
That's some margin.
Yeah, that adds important context... and makes it worse.
He's actually offering $30/hr and topping out at $40/hr. When the paragraph I quoted indicates that tha top rate should be about $50/hr.
Either way, it's another case of an employer complaining that the labour pool market is wrong.
Even with the normal expectations and earning possibilities etc.
If you've been advertising a job at a certain rate and nobody has applied, then either the location, conditions or pay are not meeting the market. You can't change the location for a business like this, so you have to change the conditions and/or pay. ie, the true hourly rate for any given job is what you can hire someone to do it for.
It's also not that uncommon for companies outside the main centres to have to pay more than the main centres to attract skilled workers. Why would they move to Putāruru to work for the same money they can get in Auckland?
$40 an hour? Shiet, man! Plumbers around here charge around $600 per hour.