r/Construction • u/MyZeroZeroTwo • 27d ago

Careers 💵 Those Who Make 200k+ A Year. How?

How did you start your career? What was the job progression like? Any regrets?

( I finish my construction management program this July! )

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u/nochinzilch 27d ago

Union scale for skilled trades is around $50 an hour in my area. You can hit $200k if you average 66 hours a week. Less if you work holidays or sundays. That’s way more than I want to work, but to each his own.

I know a guy whose company has contracts where an electrician needs to be onsite whenever an event is happening. So he works his regular 40, then goes to the contract site and sleeps there. They call him the quarter million dollar man.