星空传媒

The bricklayer is an unskilled tradesman, well, compared to an electrician anyway. If they are being paid 拢55 000 and bricklayer's mates are getting 拢32 000, I ask you, is it worth being an electrician any more?

Who is keeping the electrician's wage so low? It has to be the managers of the electrical contracting industry who are told by their employers that 'you must be competitive'. Well, if you are a manager who believes this, you are the type of manager that is destroying our industry. Give your customer the service that they deserve and give them a qualified electrician.

Managers, if you pay your electricians low wages, then you as their manager will be on low pay too. Let us say that the average electrician is earning 拢25 000 and the manager is on approximately 30% more, that's 拢32 500. So, if the electrician is paid the same as the bricklayer, 拢55 000, add 30% to that and you, the manager, would be earning 拢71 500.

So, contract managers and engineers out there, stop working for peanuts. Wake up and smell the coffee and say no to your employers. Start paying your electricians a proper wage and in return you will receive a decent living.

Or am I wrong? Is a bricklayer more skilled than an electrician?