For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now a hot commodity

Re:For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now ... by strken on Monday January 06, 2020 @08:49PM (#21975903)

Do you have a source for plumbers being on par with psychiatrists? I have friends in the trades (back in Australia) and my impression is that their pay isn't as high as is commonly believed.

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Re:For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now ... by mywittyname on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @04:38PM (#21985198)

The Bureau of Labor statistics provides this information.

Plumber median pay is $54,000, while 10% make more than $94,000.

Psychiatrist median pay is $220,000, while 10% make beyond the wage cap for BLS data. https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes291066.htm

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Re:For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now ... by heavyset_go on Monday January 06, 2020 @10:36PM (#21976589)

Going to need a source, as well. Whenever these statistics are trotted out, they use figures from a few standard deviations to the right of the mean income, where the trades-person is usually self-employed at their own business that employs many others.

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Re:For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now ... by Balgair on Monday January 06, 2020 @11:40PM (#21976900)

The point was not to talk about plumbers, it was to reference the meme, so as to remind/give the reader a baseline idea that manual labor is not valued as the work itself, but the supply/demand.

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Re:For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now ... by cylinder on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @05:55PM (#21986086)

it's just like anything else. you need to be self employed and own a business that you've scaled out to earn the big money.

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