Originally Posted by
Australopithecus
All of my builder mates are lately charging $900-1200/day wages plus whatever profit is in the quote. I have a friend with a crew of three erecting sheds that makes as much as a widebody captain. He is home every night and every weekend.
The ABS average wage for a full time worker in Australia 2022 is about $90k. Yet all these trade jobs apparently have pay several orders of magnitude above that (widebody Captain wage is 4-5 times above that). I think there may be a bit of “wage inflation” going on.
On edit…my daughter’s former school now costs $30K ++. That’s with after tax dollars too. And being the poorest kid in class does them no favours either.
I’ve always thought private school is the worst investment possible.
Studies show by the time the kids hit university former public school students earn higher marks than privately educated ones.