Plumbers, Electricians earn more than an average engineer.
Saw this on Twitter today. Tech Mahindra hiring graduates for 3.25 LPA and 24*7 Shift timing. I talked to various people to get an idea of their pay. A) A plumber lives near my house. He said he earns 2-3k daily and works for 20-25 days average. He earns 50-60k per month. B) Electrician earns in the same range. And other technicians and workers like this who are skilled earn a lot more than a software engineer. This is the hard reality. Students study for 16 years and pay 15-20 lacs college fees for this.
Welcome to the real world!
At the same time, you should know electricians/plumbers add more value to the society than a “fresher” TechM shift employee. If you’ve paid college fee that should not entitle you for a high-paying job. It’s just a privilege.
Sooner you realise this, better it would be.
jumpinglucifer
Stealth
a year ago
I agree to this.
Why don't you compare a fresher electrician/ plumber with a fresher in tech Mahindra.... the fresher blue collar employee will probably earn 300 a day gaining experience
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Can you extrapolate after 5 years for both?
There was a similar comparison with cab drivers a few years back. Well the cab drivers did a bandh yesterday
jumpinglucifer
Stealth
a year ago
For a TechM Employee If they don't switch Jobs.
Income in 5 Years considering hike of 10%.
Around 20 Lacs.
For a Skilled Plumber/Electrician
Average Rate 2000 per day working 20 Days a month with no price change for 5 Years and No extra contract work which pays more.
Income: 24 Lacs
Plus No Income tax for him. No Prof Tax for him. No education loan for him.
While I agree to the points you mentioned. Life doesn't end after 5 years, in fact that's when the serious earnings start for most tech employees. So earnings after 5 years for techM guy will only go up. Also don't you think the plumber had to work under someone for first 2-3 years for peanuts to get to this skill level. So the calculation is misleading.
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WideDiaper
Stealth
a year ago
Don't ask how much Pani Puri walas make
Itachi777
Stealth
a year ago
Tik tokers, youtubers make more money than the avg CEO in India. Welcome to reality. Where your education, brand does not matter as much as people would have you believe. Corporate Jobs is one of the least time efficient ways to make money, although a very low risk one.
If I look at certain high flying YouTube channels with 5million subscription, they are unable to get 1million views over a month. Definitely the world has moved out of COVID digitalization.
Corporate life gives you the best option to take risks when you want . It provides you with the smartest people to learn from and build network. If you still don't leverage the opportunity and want to live a peaceful life, still a very good deal.
welcome to free market economics, and there's actual shortage of skilled plumbers/electricians.
JakerPiannomer
Stealth
a year ago
Lol your plumber has 0 career growth chance but these students or freshers have a chance to grow to much better packages in the future with better working hours. This false comparison logic has been debunked many times, recommend you to have a bit of awareness
LooseGoose
Stealth
a year ago
Do you think plumbers are dumb? That they don't know how to grow their earnings beyond plumbing?
They hire others, get into other jobs that aren't strict about moonlighting, eventually start their own business or shop and keep expanding. Much more hustle and chops than an average engineer today.
The labour for a plumber in Bangalore is ₹900. Your neighbourhood plumber seems to be working in Ambani's house to get ₹3000 per day.
jumpinglucifer
Stealth
a year ago
Bro visiting charge is Around 250-300. After that based on work they charge. It's not about my neighbourhood.
Also they do contract work in a new house or apartment where they charge 50-60k for the whole work. So on a good day earning 3000 is not a big deal for them. Yeah on an average 2000 is what he told and I have written.
HappyFeet92
Stealth
a year ago
There is absolutely nothing wrong with plumbers/electricians earning more. What the fuck is wrong with people trying to put down these services as if they are some demeaning jobs?
In fact they are one of the most high paying jobs in more advanced countries
Wrong comparison. These are entry level figures comparison, a skilled technician would initially be considered more valuable than an entry level witch engineer.
But 5 years down the line the software engineer will end up making more. 10 years and he will end up making way more and so on.
But they don't get yearly increments and promotions.
There's a chance that a SWE will be earning 2Cr+ after 20 yoe in his late 40s.
Plumber jobs will be making the same kinda money he's making today but inflation adjusted.
itachiuchiha
Stealth
a year ago
It's hard to scale and increase that(not impossible though). Income is linear to the number of houses. You'll have to go to a bigger city if you want to charge more.
A better example would be chaat vaala. That's more scalable and if the taste is good, people will have it at even 2x-3x the average market cost. Of course, it involves manual work though.
VioletCabin
Stealth
a year ago
But their salary saturate at one point and that too in early phase.
That's the main difference.
jumpinglucifer
Stealth
a year ago
But their demand never saturate. For an IT employee who is average at coding getting a job at 40 after layoff is quite difficult. In my previous company a senior manager was fired and he still hasn't got a new job.
He was lucky because he had joined in the early 2000 and had got a lot of onsite opportunity due to which he has a lot of savings. But whosoever joined after 2015 onsite opportunity decreased and average salary is still in the similar range.
I was a TechM fresher earning 3.25 LPA (not a 24*7 shift guy though). I was from a non CS stream, so I got forced into a technical writing role. But I got into programming, made an internal switch during COVID and after 3.6 years, made a couple of switches and earning 24+ LPA right now (6th year).
All we gotta do is hustle and things will get better than we hope for.
Btw, TechM is shite for still offering the same package for freshers. And the salary for first six months is even worse at 1.8 LPA. FU TechM.
This is a wrong comparison.
An average plumber’s income will not increase drastically. An engineer working at any IT company has lots of opportunities for up-skilling and getting better pay. The same doesn’t stand true for blue collared workers.
There will be very rare instances when a blue collared worker make good business but again that is something even engineers can try doing.
For majority of people working straight out of college, they would spend their money like anything(shopping, eating out, and what not). That’s why there are very few success stories(those making it big).
Apart from it, whatever a plumber does can be learnt by engineers as well(it’s not that hard to do). But for a plumber to learn coding(would be a difficult task).
There is a possibility in future where blue collared jobs would be taken away by machines. The same doesn’t stand true for engineers(unless you don’t up-skill).
In terms of tax payment, the way how our current economy is moving more towards digitisation, physical money’s circulation might get stopped in a distant future. In such cases, it will be difficult for people to hide their income and shy away from paying taxes.
Maybe right now, it all seems gloomy(but at a later point, the difference would be visible). This stands true only if the person up-skills and doesn’t stay around the same company for a longer period of time.
Damn fixing pipes and wires has become expensive. Bc 50 ka earthing lagwaya tha maine 5y ago, ab toh utne mai bulb bhi nahi change karte.
US jaisa mehnga hogya
jumpinglucifer
Stealth
a year ago
If they come and tight the screw then also 250-300 visiting.
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