What's your time worth?
- Thread starter 420God
- Start date
tangerinegreen555
Well-Known Member
I averaged $48 an hr. as a union steelworker who had the highest paying job there because it involved high speed production, brains and experience.
That included production incentives, forced overtime, forced working holidays, forced stupid meetings, forced no breaks or lunch (although I found many ways to get around that-something always needs maintenance).
Time and a half for over 40 hrs./wk or 8 hrs./day. So there were no weekends off until you rotated into them, no holidays off unless it was a scheduled day off, etc.
And you had to breathe fumes, dust, asbestos fibers in the early days, etc.
Base rate was around $25/hr. but companies now would rather pay OT and work holidays and weekends instead of hiring more people. CEO made literally millions but said we were overpaid.
High turnover rate for new hires. Money sounds good until you see what it's like inside a steel mill. Lol. 100° in summer, 35° in winter. Noise, mobile equipment as big as a house, injuries and deaths.
But other than that, lol...
That included production incentives, forced overtime, forced working holidays, forced stupid meetings, forced no breaks or lunch (although I found many ways to get around that-something always needs maintenance).
Time and a half for over 40 hrs./wk or 8 hrs./day. So there were no weekends off until you rotated into them, no holidays off unless it was a scheduled day off, etc.
And you had to breathe fumes, dust, asbestos fibers in the early days, etc.
Base rate was around $25/hr. but companies now would rather pay OT and work holidays and weekends instead of hiring more people. CEO made literally millions but said we were overpaid.
High turnover rate for new hires. Money sounds good until you see what it's like inside a steel mill. Lol. 100° in summer, 35° in winter. Noise, mobile equipment as big as a house, injuries and deaths.
But other than that, lol...
420God
Well-Known Member
Not really sure, just bored this morning.
I've made as low as $7.50 and as high as $60/hr.
But that's why I now work for myself, a penny saved is a penny earned.
I figure my time to be worth around $100/hr. Like you though I have no problem donating my time to worthy causes.
tangerinegreen555
Well-Known Member
I remember making 2.83 an hr. in 1975 and thought I was rich.
Then I got a girlfriend and found out I wasn't.
Then I got a girlfriend and found out I wasn't.
420God
Well-Known Member
How much do you think you saved remodeling that place? What's your time worth with that averaged in?
tangerinegreen555
Well-Known Member
I'm still calculating that, but I had a crew of 5 guys at one point that I paid $15 an hr. Now it's just me and another guy. So way cheaper than contractors, but still there were costs.
I put more money into that house than it was worth, but I grew up there and my daughter and her boyfriend live there, so there were other factors involved. As in to make it so nice, they wouldn't want to leave. And that is a resounding success.
That house looks pretty impressive after $150K put into it and is an investment on many levels.
Big_Lou
Well-Known Member
I was making around $8 an hour in the late 80s, I was a teenager living on my own. I remember the rent on my first apartment - $275, heh.
tusseltussel
Well-Known Member
Started out at 5.25 and now my employees make more than me
qwizoking
Well-Known Member
Well..
Box trailer-reefer
Owner op $1.5-2 a mile.
Avg 600 miles a day on 11hr dot clock.I bullshit or itd be more
Avg 10-12mpg. 12 in Midwest like running Chicago to Oregon.
Diesel ~$2 a gallon
So $120 for 600 miles =~$1000 a day
Pharm. Salary. But only worked a few hrs a day.
I don't feel like doing more math.
(well some projects are endless)
When I worked as a mechanic it was like $60hr but on flag time
Box trailer-reefer
Owner op $1.5-2 a mile.
Avg 600 miles a day on 11hr dot clock.I bullshit or itd be more
Avg 10-12mpg. 12 in Midwest like running Chicago to Oregon.
Diesel ~$2 a gallon
So $120 for 600 miles =~$1000 a day
Pharm. Salary. But only worked a few hrs a day.
I don't feel like doing more math.
(well some projects are endless)
When I worked as a mechanic it was like $60hr but on flag time
Singlemalt
Well-Known Member
About $1.06/hr as a fry cook at A&W in 1967
~$89K/yr at retirement in 2013
~$89K/yr at retirement in 2013
420God
Well-Known Member
Damn, you're getting paid good for posting to the forum. Don't know if I'll ever "retire", I don't plan that far ahead. I've never even taken a real vacation, there's always something else I end up spending money on.
Singlemalt
Well-Known Member
Not 89K now, lol. Prolly around 45K + whatever
Indagrow
Well-Known Member
I made $20 bucks in a ten min. window via a bet a crackhead wouldn't try to come back in the bar after she was kicked out and her personal check for her $2.50 tab was ripped up in her face last night.. That's about the most I've ever been paid for my time
Yes it was worth it
Yes it was worth it
I worked flat rate and if you divvied that up by the hours actually spent it seemed like a lot. But there was a lot of down time associated with peripheral tasks that were not compensated.
Edit: This was prior to the time limit caps of today.
Edit: This was prior to the time limit caps of today.
Last edited: