5 blue-collar jobs that pay $ 100K

[Stand_watie]

Thinking on this some more...what would the members of the forum consider to be a 100k job, speaking in terms of an hourly rate with 1.5 o.t. for +40 hrs?

48 per hour (100k /2080)? 40 hrs per wk
40 per hour (100k/2380)? 46 hrs per wk
35 (100k/2580) 50 hrs per wk
30 (100k/2930) 56 hrs per week

It seems like "Could make" 100k per yr has a very wide range of interpetations

[MillCreek]

As someone who is salaried, a $ 100 K job is one that pays me that salary for one year (52 weeks at 40 hours per week, or 2080 hours).  This works out to $ 48.08/hour.

[Ben]

As someone who is salaried, a $ 100 K job is one that pays me that salary for one year (52 weeks at 40 hours per week, or 2080 hours).  This works out to $ 48.08/hour.

This is how I would look at it too. Whether salaried or hourly, it should be the baseline for "$100K/yr". Salaried employees may (usually do) get ripped by working over that without monetary compensation (though you can usually get comp time), while hourly employees may work over that, but be paid overtime.

I've been both hourly and salaried, and I never thought of my hourly jobs (some of which included a lot of OT) as what I made with OT, which can be quite variable. OT was always kind of a bonus, but never counted upon.

[White Horseradish]

I have friends who are making a pile of money as welders. They run their own shop, have tons of orders. They work 7 days a week, and sometimes nights.



NYPD has a starting salary of 46K out of the academy, 90K after 5 years. With overtime, 100K sounds extremely likely. (I just had to look this up for an argument yesterday) Yes, the cost of living is nuts, so it's not as much as it sounds.

[AJ Dual]

I think these guys outside my window right now might be making something close to 100k...

[brimic]

I think these guys outside my window right now might be making something close to 100k...

Probably well north of $100k for a crane operator...
Is that the cooter building (whatever its called) off Mich. ave?
I used to drive by there every day until they closed van buren/jackson/whatever exit was there to get to the lakefront.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

Union crane operators 20 years ago made 55 an hour


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[AJ Dual]

Probably well north of $100k for a crane operator...
Is that the cooter building (whatever its called) off Mich. ave?
I used to drive by there every day until they closed van buren/jackson/whatever exit was there to get to the lakefront.

Close, it's the site of the red-granite Northwestern Mutual building they demolished to build the even bigger tower. I'm looking at it from just south across Wisconsin Ave.

[Ron]

The only thing worse than the free market for setting wages is every other system tried.



   

[TechMan]

I think these guys outside my window right now might be making something close to 100k...

They let you have a window?