Re: High Cost of Sportplanes

Yes Jim,
You are wrong, I've worked in the biz for over 20 years. And you know what! Most places hire Joe Smoe right off the street and show him how to shoot rivets and put him or her on the line.....shocking isn't it. ;)

Patrick
student SP
aircraft structural mech

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"W P Dixon" <paddydix1spam1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:fNgXe.5$kk2.1861664@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Well,
Considering most production aircraft workers make from 10 to 15 bucks an hour I don't see how you come up with 45 an hour. That makes a difference to doesn't it ? ;) I loved working production but you just made alot more
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$45 an hour is probably a realistic cost once you consider that it costs money to put a building over the worker's head, pay for lights, pay for tools, pay for supervision, pay to heat/cool the building, etc. For reference, what shop rate do you pay when someone works on your car? Here in the Atlanta 'burbs, I pay $60 or so (IIRC) at the local Honda Dealer. The independant guy charges about $50/hr. I'd say both of these are comparable rates to the $45/hr mentioned for labor in the previous post.

Heheh, $60/hr shop rate to get a car fixed actually sounds reasonable to me.

Like KA/karel said in the other reply, around half of the cost of labor ends up on the paycheck.

If you want _good_ workers (this is aircraft production after all, you don't take a wrecked airplane back for exchange like a hamburger), they'll deserve benefits. They'll also need some training and supervision (both of which will tie up experienced labor), overhead like management, payroll/HR, taxes. When they get experience and turn out to be good workers, they'll deserve pay raises. Also, a disproportionate effort is always expended picking up the slack for the bad workers. I agree with $45 as an approximation.

$10-15 an hour seems very low. I'm curious where you get this figure. It sounds like a starting wage advertised in the jobs section in the newspaper... I could be wrong though. 

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