[SBE] HD plant construction engineer needed

[John Peterson]

For those of you living in higher paid (and higher cost areas) you need to
get out more. Check out Jobline on the SBE Website.

John P
Fargo

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Jeff Carter <sbe at hidden-valley.com> wrote:


> Forgive me for potentially speaking out of turn, but isn't one of the

> whole points of the SBE (and membership in the SBE) making certain

> that we are fairly paid for what we do?  I seem to recall actually

> having signed something upon applying for membership in SBE that said

> I wouldn't ridiculously undercut fellow engineers and destroy the

> concept of fair pay.  I assumed everybody in SBE had to sign it.  I

> suppose I can dig my copy back out for the exact wording.

>

> I didn't initially respond to this thread because I thought the

> original quote ($20) was a typo.  Are we sure it's not?  Twenty bucks

> would have been a joke twenty years ago.  Trainees do better in many

> if not most cases.  So are we certain that the original quote was

> legitimate and not a typo or someone trolling for responses?

>

> Surely we're just being teased if it wasn't a typo.  Maybe they meant

> $200 instead...

>

> Jeff

> Atlanta

>

>

> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

> You wrote:

>  In 2001 putting up an FM in Great Falls, Montana My Contractor was

> billing at $15.00 per hour plus expenses. I was Training at the time

> for $15 / hour on call and $8 / Hour Scheduled.

>  Two years ago assisting another local Engineer with his FM Digital

> Transmitter and antenna install, I was making $10 / Hour (as an

> assistant!) with taxes withheld by the station.

>  Last year assisting on their AM Digital Transmitter Plant upgrade was

> about the same amount.

>

>

>

> From: layton2 at earthlink.net

> To: sbe at sbe.org

> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:53:20 -0400

> Subject: Re: [SBE] HD plant construction engineer needed

>

>

> Wow! I left Chicago in 1984 and was making three times that then!

>

> Jack Layton CPBE

> Layton Technical Services

> 134 Lakeview Drive

> McMurray, PA 15317

> Phone 724-942-4054

> layton2 at earthlink.net

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