yep mechanics that work alot of hours get roughly 30 000-35 000 US often u do need to bring ur own tools cause getting the tools in takes time...order forms etc...its dumb...u can make much better money working for urself IF UR BUSY and its steady...diesel mechanics will make more...diesel mechanics that deal with heavy equipment prolly make more still.....the point is ur doing something u love to do...i originally really wanted to get into mechanics because not for money but because i knew i wouldnt get bitter doing it 20 years later...turns out u cant do everything when ur in school and im gonna start physiotherapy school this july in buffalo! see ya in the states boys!!!...id like to work around a shop on weekends when im done school as a hobby

i'll stop blabbing now

Andrew

 

All depends on where you go and how the dealership workks, I myself work for an International Truck Dealership. Its an hourly rate of pay. No comp or anything. But if you have X amount of certifications you do get a monthly profit sharing were i work. I just graduated school for it and make 13/hr Could makke much more in Factory. The place i work frowns on Overtime, as the place i workked at while in school i could work as much overtime as i wanted, Wasnt too shabby.

Another maybe benny to heavy truckks is if you get into Refier trailers, Lotta hours, Your on call all the time, But when you go out on the service call ( when your on call) Your hourly pay where i worked was triple time and you get an automatic 3 hrs. ( so we could get paid from the moment we left the house) But in most cases i woudlnt go to the shop, I just go right there and see whats needed. Much easier that way. and most times its just opps i forgot to fill it or a quick jump start. Really sad what some people forget to do !

 

I paid more for my tool box than my truck

 

I know tech`s that have done over 6 figures in a year, altho I question the quality of their work and their "ethics". I my self have done 74k...and thats busting my backside, so it can be a fairly lucrative job, esp for a person who usually doesn`t "need" many years of college under their belt. And I had to but all of my own tools, prob have over 50k invested, but it took me 20 years to accumulate it all (and the tool buying NEVER ends....it`s an addiction ). Not a bad occupation overall, like anything else, not as good as some but a whole lot better than most IMO.

 

Been there done that got the tools to prove it. AND, had to punch off the clock long enough to go outside the door and BUY the tools also.

 

Greater Atlanta $25 to $30 a hour flat rate for ASE master and experianced.Next level down $18 to $21 a hour flat rate.Dealers pays workman comp,uniforms,sometimes help with insurance but not always,supply SPECIALTY tools but not anything basic.99% of all TECHS anywhere are paid flat rate.Service advisors usually %100 comission,service managers also.Pay plans can and are set up differant from store to store etc.I worked 100% commision for 25 plus years.Paid ONCE a month with a minor draw weekly for pocket,gas money.No free rides in this world for the most part.No work,no pay.I worked a G.M.store that the OLD service advisor had been their 30 years.He knew TONS of folkes,waited on some that he knew their gran parents when THEY were young.He made around $90k 100% comission in 1989.I made around $60k and we had others in the mid $40s and TWO that made around $25k.They talked and drank lots of coffee all the time.The old statement for higher ups was WANT A RAISE DO MORE! If nothing drove in no pay for anyone top to bottom.Early to mid 70s was BAD.Top service advisors and top techs usually make yearly near or about the same and so on down the line.Try being a BOAT tech on a major lake!

 

Beating flat rate is the key to making big $ as a tech. Every job has a predetermined (usually calculated and published by the manufacturer) time that a job should take, if a tech does the job in less time, he still gets paid the flat rate time. For example, if a job calls for 1 hour's work, and the tech completes it in 30 minutes, he still gets paid the full hour at whatever his hourly wage is. The tech obviously has incentive to do the job as quickly as possible, but before you jump on your keyboards be aware of this, if he hurries too much and does a crappy job, he gets to do it again, without pay. This keeps tech from doing sloppy, hasty repairs. Besides, there's a bit of a pride factor involved in not having "come-backs", the techs usually give each other as much or more grief about them as the customers do.

A good tech, beating flat rate all or even most of the time, will make a pretty good living. Think about it, if he's making $20.00 per hour, but can do that one hour job in 30 minutes on a consistent basis, he's effectively doubled his hourly pay to $40.00. $40.00/hr x 8 hours=$320.00/day. Thats $1600 per week, $6400.00 per month, $76800.00 per year. It can and does happen, and I have heard of techs making 100k plus per year.

 

The shop that I worked in, a few tech's "Come-Backs" were tossed into the general dispatch as the customer's file would have 'mysteriously' disappeared.

Ahhhh the "good ol days" when a file was stored in a file cabinet, not on a hard drive.

 

i have two close friends who work at a local Dodge dealership who work stricly on commissions. they say they often have to argue with the service manager about the times they turn in for a job.

 

depends where you go to work... i made just over $50k cdn funds [less taxes] last year working as a HD mechanic... not the greatest pay, and no where near enough for the area i live in... [average house price is now ±$400k cdn]

 

Dude....Fort McMurray...

Great $$ if you can handle -40 to -60 for 7 months of the year

 

My old man is an HD mechanic at a BC copper mine and he pulls in about $100,000 a year. 4 on 4 off straight day shift. Tons of overtime if he wants it.

His roller cabinet is worth rough $200,000++ more so because of all the electronic crap he has to have to work on the new stuff. Equipment now a days has more computer power than ever and you need the stuff to fix it.

Seems the bigger the stuff, the more money you can make but the bigger the stuff, the more you have to have to do it.

Hell, I do $60K + being a finishing carpenter with $30K in tools. Lot cleaner!!

 

i'm not a happy worker until it is +10°C... below that i am always feeling cold [i've got a NFG valve in the ticker and blood circulation isn't too great ]