Engineers Scale

[Gary]

The patient can talk. You just have to learn the language. It will tell you exactly what is wrong.

[benncool]

Okay lets see how this works. 1 British Pound = 1.75 US Dollar. An average refrigeration technician (engineer) will make approx. 20-30 US Dollars per hour.

This is of course based on where you live. Rural areas make less. Big Cities make more.
It does of course cost more to live in a city. I expect this rate to skyrocket in the next couple of years because young people are not getting into the trade. The demand for what we do is getting greater.

Based on the above exchange rate how are the wages in England for refrigeration people?

[Brian_UK]

Some pay rates from this periods Service Engineer in the UK taken from job adverts; sorry all in GBP, (my calculator's broke!)
AC/Fridge £18-24K pa
Fridge Pack £10-12 per hour
Supermarket £9.50 - 10.70 per hour
Mobile AC service £22-25K pa

Not too exciting, is it ?

[benncool]

Some pay rates from this periods Service Engineer in the UK taken from job adverts; sorry all in GBP, (my calculator's broke!)
AC/Fridge £18-24K pa
Fridge Pack £10-12 per hour
Supermarket £9.50 - 10.70 per hour
Mobile AC service £22-25K pa

Not too exciting, is it ?

So 30 US would be around 17 Pounds. So we are in the same ball park. As long as we have enough money for a beer at the end of the day!

[chemi-cool]

Hi Bencool.

It is difficult to compare cause the cost of living and cost of parts plays an important roll here.

On a certain project, you can make more money then a big company cause you have less expenses.

A one man show (J.A.) can make even more by using sub contractors and doing other jobs meanwhile.

I charge 150NIS to 200NIS which is $33 to $44 an hour +Km.
No other expenses so at the end of the day I have left in my hand more then a big company doing the same job.

But a litre of diesel costs me only 2.8NIS which is $0.625.

In Europe it will be a lot more but the price of the vans is lower.
Imposible to calculate but whats important, at least for me, is that I love what I'm doing!

[Abe]

whats important, at least for me, is that I love what I'm doing!

when you love something..............everything else is just........Insignificant