Either self employed or working for someone else.
2007-12-06 13:54:50 · 11 answers · asked by dubak00 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Do It Yourself (DIY)
Plumbers, either way, but for steady work with a company,
2007-12-06 14:09:48 · answer #1 · answered by William B 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Where I live, if your a plumber or an electrician, doesn't matter, you can make a damn good living for yourself. You're going to have to work very hard, get good marks, do your apprenticeship. Work for someone for a while to get experience, maybe even 5 plus years. As you work for them, you will get to know folks and eventually you will be able to build up clientelle of your own and go into business for yourself. Remember though, being in business for yourself is not all it is cracked up to be. I've bought and sold 3 businesses over the years and I used to hate it when all my friends were cooling off in the lake in mid summer and I was busting my *** working.
2007-12-07 13:16:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey Bud,
Why are you thinking of either of these trades? If your just starting off,,,,, please look into both before you get into the trade and work for years to learn a trade and then find your not happy.
Both make good money, both require a large amount of patience to learn and working with someone who cares for the trade and his reputation to learn from...
Working for yourself as an electrician cost less than a plumber. I would scare you if I told you what it takes to outfit just one of my trucks. I know many people in either trade and each feels his is the best..... I would not want it any other way.
Good Luck
Oldguy
2007-12-06 23:58:28 · answer #3 · answered by Oldguy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It really depends on the job the respective trades are doing. I've been an electrician off and on for almost 14 years. As an independent I would bill out at $60-75 per hour. However it behooves me to charge by the job rather than hourly. Sometimes it has worked out to $100+ per hour.
Both are good trades to know as there will ALWAYS be work.
2007-12-06 14:28:22 · answer #4 · answered by tropicalturbodave 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
as far as I have ever known, unless things have changed in the last ten years, it is electricians who make more money per hour or per job. If you are asking because you are considering a career decision, then chose to be an electrician, they don't get as dirty, and they don't work as hard, and they make more money, and they have better benefits. Think about it...plumbers have to deal with toilets, that is not a superior choice. Do you know how many germs are in toilets?, almost as many as there are in a garbage disposal, also a plumbers job. And that's not even mentioning sewers, also plumbers work.
I think the best way to tell which job is the highest paying: if there are two or more jobs, the one where you get the dirtiest will almost always pay the least, the next least dirtiest job will be the next best paying, and so on............. all the way up to the presidency......or someone like Donald Trump.
2007-12-06 15:01:42 · answer #5 · answered by Dols 2 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Plumbers make more money, But the electricians always sing when they work.
2007-12-06 14:12:29 · answer #6 · answered by Rich R 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Well, this is all I know abou it: Go to your local community college and get certificates in plumbing and electrical work, and then DEFINATELY GET HVAC CERTIFIED. Then, buy your own tools, and a van, and go to work as a contractor for someone like Lowes. or Home Depot, that's the best advice I can give you. I know a couple of guys in Pennsylvania that do that and they make about 75,000 a year, so it's better than truck driving, which ranges from $30,000 to $80,000, and it's definately better than welding UNLESS YOU CAN GET A WELDERS CERTIFICATE, show experience with a company for like at least 5 years, and then get your own welding rig together on a heavy duty flatbed pickup truck and work on assembling gas pipeline *USUALLY OUT WEST BUT THEY HAVE THIS TYPE OF WORK EVERYWHERE*. Those guys make like $240,000 to $350,000 a year. So unless you plan on being a doctor, that's the only other way to make that kind of money, problem is, getting the initial experience right now. It's tough. I'm driven truck for 8 years. I'm 29 years old and got laid off in september in Oregon. Now I live with my father in Illinois. I'm going back to school to get my Illinois CDL, and then back to work. I kind of want to fake an address in Iowa because I hate Illinois and we are getting ready to buy a house in Iowa anyway. But... who knows.... That's my problem, no one elses, I'll work it out like a man. -john in Iowa (at the moment)
2016-03-15 08:29:17 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2015-11-08 21:25:34 · answer #8 · answered by ✔ Sandy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Plumbing is an older trade, and did at one stage incorporate electrical work, and glazing, before the trades were split.
The electrical cables was situated inside a lead sleeve made and crafted by plumbers in london.
Plumbumb= lead in latin, yes that far back folks.
2007-12-06 23:06:06 · answer #9 · answered by dann_501 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
They both do well union or non-union but plumbers have a messier job.
2007-12-06 16:41:58 · answer #10 · answered by zurc137 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋