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Re:The US is building factories at a wildly fast rate by red-iron-pine on Friday June 09, 2023 @10:01AM (#36257939)
I don't know anyone in the trades who is going to pull north of 200k unless they own the business. In which case my Ex's father comes to mind; he owned a plumbing business and had 4-5 vans out servicing clients.

He made 300+, and busted his ass to get it. Most of his guys were in the 60-85k range.

HVAC at 300k is an absolute outlier, and there are going to be some serious tradeoffs in terms of how brutal that's going to be on your body. Gonna be some long, hot days.

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Re:The US is building factories at a wildly fast rate by importantbrian on Friday June 09, 2023 @01:58PM (#36261532)
Yeah, my in-laws own one of the biggest construction businesses in our area and they don't pull nearly $300k out of the business a year. For most trades it's an extremely tough way to make $70k a year.
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