Industry Wide Wage Averages....

orson

Remodel Magazine makes a few statistical statements in it's MarketWatch column for it's May 08 issue. I always wonder if these types of statements have any basis in reality so I thought I'd post them for feedback:

$28,066- Median* annual compensation (base salary plus bonus) for a senior construction laborer

$47,235- Median* annual compensation (base salary plus bonus) for a lead carpenter or equivalent

Source: salary.com/Parade magazine

* Reminder: median is "in/of the middle" rather than the average, I only mention this because I always forget

I personaly thought the number for a lead carpenter sounded low. Around here you would pay any skilled carpenter capable of running jobs that much w/o them having all the responsibilities of a "lead" as defined by most of the official lead carpenter systems.

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In NY most laborers are geting around 15 per hr x 10 150 per day . Carpenter is 18 to 22 x 10 220 per day . lead man around 30 per hour .x 10 Ive been useing 12 to 20 per hour men for the last year .I am acting lead man for now . Ive been working 4 men since last summer .