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How much can plumbers earn? (vanity)
October 16, 2008 | me

Posted on 10/16/2008 8:53:21 AM PDT by reaganaut1

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To: Just another Joe
...plumbers charge from $65 to $85 an hour.

Hey Joe, that's not profit. (what you pay taxes on). Cost of sales include transportation, insurance, health care,among other things. The taxable income on these rates is more like $20 to $30.

41 posted on 10/16/2008 9:05:21 AM PDT by 386wt (Be free and don't die!)
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To: P8riot
Founder of Microsoft.

You win.

42 posted on 10/16/2008 9:05:21 AM PDT by randog (What the...?!)
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To: P8riot
Founder of Microsoft.

I would not exactly condider Bill Gates founding of Microsoft and his resulting billions as "unglamorous".

43 posted on 10/16/2008 9:05:37 AM PDT by scooter2 (A taxpayer voting for Barack Obama is like a chicken voting for Col. Sanders.)
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To: reaganaut1
Licensed Plumbers can earn up to $51000 depending on the region
44 posted on 10/16/2008 9:05:38 AM PDT by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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To: reaganaut1
Other non-college ed jobs...I had my drive asphalted and the guys who did it were relatives who ran their own business. Maybe it sounds weird, but all the machines and the smell was FUN. I had a blast watching how it was done. I wanted to drive that machine...I'll bet they pull in a nice piece of change.

Not being from the trades in my family, I kind of envy their doing clearly useful, necessary things with noisy rigs and getting to be outdoors...at least in nice weather.

I wouldn't be a roofer, though. When I have work on my roof done, my nerves are shot. And I have asked every roofing contractor "Why don't you engineer some safety rigs, like rappelling..."

45 posted on 10/16/2008 9:06:19 AM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: SC DOC
ROFLOL!!!!!

Now THAT was funny!!

Thanks!

46 posted on 10/16/2008 9:06:26 AM PDT by Osage Orange (" I did not have radical relations with that man, William Ayers. " -Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: perfect_rovian_storm
"While America is still America, they can earn whatever they can at prices that the market will bear."

That ends in late January of next year from what I'm hearing on the idiot box.

47 posted on 10/16/2008 9:06:32 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Barack Obama: In Error and arrogant -- he's errogant!)
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To: reaganaut1

Who gives a crap?

Are we communists who decide what each job classification should make? You are a prole, so you have our elitist sympathy and $10 per hour? And there you stay for the rest of your life!?

Joe might create the next great plumbing franchise for the USA and make $100 million. Good for him.


48 posted on 10/16/2008 9:06:49 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: reaganaut1

About 15 years ago, truck drivers for one of the grocery chains went on strike, enraged that they were averaging a mere 80K a year (with overtime).

By now they are probably in the six figures.


49 posted on 10/16/2008 9:07:13 AM PDT by freespirited (We have met the enemy, and he is the MSM.)
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To: reaganaut1
I am in the commercial banking business. Several of my customers own plumbing companies. One of them did the plumbing when I built my home.

His company employs 65 guys. Last year the business grossed near $8 million.

50 posted on 10/16/2008 9:07:18 AM PDT by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: reaganaut1

* With new plumbing for new construction, the work is easy, and the pay is great.

* There is a huge demand for repairs (crawling under old houses during winter and the like), with constant harassments from many customers who want the jobs done for little or nothing.


51 posted on 10/16/2008 9:07:33 AM PDT by familyop (cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-'96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote)
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To: perfect_rovian_storm

And that is the real point - what difference should it make to a President? In the real America, he would encourage Joe to grow his business and make all the money he can. Joe will support his local community, his church, his charities, and his family and friends, rather than sending his “excessive income” to Washington to be ‘re-distributed’ according to how Nancy Pelosi or Barack Obama think it should be.

I really hope this story stays alive - but let’s get back to the important point: It’s SOCIALISM!


52 posted on 10/16/2008 9:07:40 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: MikeGranby

You’re right. And what self-respecting plumber doesn’t have a few plumber’s helpers, anyway? ;-)


53 posted on 10/16/2008 9:08:04 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: thefactor

Nassau and Suffolk County police start higher than New York and end up MUCH higher.


54 posted on 10/16/2008 9:08:27 AM PDT by diefree
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To: redrunner
OR... the plumbing companies will raise prices to pay the tax man... businesses don’t pay taxes, customers pay the tax...

Thanks for pointing that out. Obama's not talking about taxing Joe Plumber out of business; he's talking about a national sales tax.

55 posted on 10/16/2008 9:09:28 AM PDT by randog (What the...?!)
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To: mnehrling
"The median expected salary for a typical Plumber I in the United States is $37,514."



Called my typical Plumber Husband and he said that's about what he makes a year.

56 posted on 10/16/2008 9:10:08 AM PDT by GloriaJane (http://www.download.com/gloriajane)
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To: reaganaut1

A master plumber working alone 40 hours a week ( at $100 per hour ) could gross $4,000 per week or $200,000 per year.

Selling boilers, pipe, and other material would generate a nice mark-up from wholesale.

Working overtime to 12 hours per day plus weekends...even more.

Billing out a helper or other journmen plumbers would likely net another nice piece of business.

Then the expenses if he has office rent, truck, gas, insurance, worker’s comp., income taxes, payroll taxes, bookkeeper...


57 posted on 10/16/2008 9:11:10 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: TexasNative2000

I am a machinist, own a mold shop that is a chapter S corporation. Some years we don’t do so well, others we do.

All I know is at the end of the year all the profit sitting on the books goes on my personal taxes, and I will never see it. I will buy a new machine, hire someone, anything but take the money home as a paycheck.

Baraq wants that money taxed and given to others, that just pisses me off major, especially when we only get a couple of good years mixed in with a few bad ones.


58 posted on 10/16/2008 9:11:25 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: reaganaut1

I have a tax prep business. One of my plumber clients grossed, in 2007, $369,000. His net was $228,000. This is in California.


59 posted on 10/16/2008 9:11:41 AM PDT by LisaAnne
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To: 386wt
Hey Joe, that's not profit.

Oh, I understand that, especially for a plumbing business owner.
I just answered the question asked.
Get your plumbing certification, a pickup truck, a phone number in the yellow pages, the tools of the trade, charge $75 an hour, and you can make about $156,000 a year (gross) in a normal working year (40 hours a week).
That's before expenses and before taxes.

60 posted on 10/16/2008 9:11:44 AM PDT by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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