I can believe it, depending on where the tech is working. Seasoned Master techs that are ASE certified and Manufacturer certified for whatever dealer they are working for can bring 28-32 / flat rate hour. Pull in 60 flat rate hrs a week and bingo, 100K. Depending on the industry, length of employment and area I've seen over 32/hr.
I've known a couple master techs that have done it but you have to be the cream of the crop. Best I think I did while I was flat rate was about 60k and that was with AAAservice center.
i was a service tech for 15 years before opening my own shop, never seen anywhere close to those numbers. i worked for subaru and toyota and unless you were there for 20 years you weren't making those numbers.
I like how the vid propped it like the entry level guys were making that. My dad was an ASE tech that worked his tail off. He never made that kind of cash even managing.
well i worked flat rate for ten years and you never know what how many hours your gonna make week to week. i was offered an office job with an extended warrenty company making alittle more money working 8 to 5 and no weekends. I was sold since i just had a son and i was hating working crazy hours and not being able to spend time with him.
The guys making this money are working crazy hours. I have 2 guys in one shop turning this kind of money but they are flat rate and work from 7 till 9-10 pm. They both say at 45 they will be done both physically and mentally. As far as a car tech, nope. The dealerships are weeding out the higher paid techs and bringing in the guys straight of school with promises of you being able to make $xxxxxx a year. They simply weed them out when they hit a certain level and bring in 2 newbies to replace them. Its really sad in the dealerships here.
The guys making this money are working crazy hours. I have 2 guys in one shop turning this kind of money but they are flat rate and work from 7 till 9-10 pm. They both say at 45 they will be done both physically and mentally. As far as a car tech, nope. The dealerships are weeding out the higher paid techs and bringing in the guys straight of school with promises of you being able to make $xxxxxx a year. They simply weed them out when they hit a certain level and bring in 2 newbies to replace them. Its really sad in the dealerships here.
Yeah there's so many schools out there that offer theses course with the promises of big money dealerships have plenty of people to choose from and wouldn't hesitate to get rid of someone because they know they will have no trouble finding a replacement. Hence in the video he said that guy was 1 of 3 and there was 3 more new guys coming in behind him at that 1 dealership.
I even took training courses to become a "tech" but when it came to the part where we had internships at local dealerships every time I would train with someone, they would ask why I wanted to do it and it opened my eyes. I'll like doing it as a hobby or like fixing stuff up more than fixing broke stuff so I was done with that.
I'd believe the truck driving report more, the way jobs keep leaving the country here most of our stuff will be coming from china etc. and they will need someway to get it here.
the other part that don't explain is, when you go to a dealership you need basic tools because everything else is supplied by the manufacturer. when you leave the dealership you find you need a lot of tools becasue you no longer have access to the tolls needed to do the same job.
yeah basicly snappy hit the nail on the head. i went to school being promised big money and i too had to work crazy hours to actually to make good money , but the longer and longer i was there the vets were weeded out and young guys were hired. when i left honda there were only 2 guys there that were there when i started and all the others were young guys being promised the same big money. ill teach my son everything i can so he wont have to count on someone else to fix his cars so he can hopefully go to college to get a nice job and not work him self to death.
ASE recertified master tech here I was just messin!! but customers do think we get the $98.50 per hour they are charged (if that was so I would have a new Smith buggy!!!!)
If you have to work 60 hours to make 100k I don't see what the problem is. Chances are you're making more money than people with a college degree and the tech doesn't have to have and most likely doesn't have a full college tuition to pay for. If he doesn't want to make 100k then work somewhere for less hours but I doubt they would leave that opportunity.
I have to disagree with the statement about the young bucks coming in and letting the old guys go. I guess I had a very good service manager that knew what he had and had a different strategy that seems to work. Our top techs stayed and the young bucks were always on the chopping block, more comebacks than the seasoned vets and less knowledge. You can't expect someone making half the money per hour to produce the same work/quality as someone doing it for 20+ years. The knowledgeable make the dealership money and give the service department a good name not the newbs.
Ive been a tech for a high line dealer for over 10 years and I don't even scare 50k a year. BMW is paying less and less for everything a FRU at a time. They'll have a great paying job out and once you get good at it they pay you less to do it. The cars are being built worse with worse materials and are IMPOSSIBLE to work on at times without removing the engine. The entire engineering department should be shit canned with extreme prejudice and replace with guys who used to be techs. There are 100k techs out there but most are in union shops in NYC. (Where if you only make 100k a year you eat beans every night.) The dealers here in Winston don't pay very well at all. We at BMW seem to be the only one's who aren't on a graduated pay scale. I.e. tires and maintenance pay you $8 and hour, engine work is $10 and only diagnosis pays the high rate of $18-20. I got to take a survey a while back and the last question was where do you see yourself in 10 years. "In another profession" seemed to be the right choice. I'm sure I could make better money elsewhere but my kid and ex wife are here in Winston so I'm stuck here until he graduates high school if I want to see him.
Seriously explore diesel mechanics.
Straight hourly, not flat rate.
Productivity bonuses.
And the guy sweeping the floor in the parts department makes more than $10/hr.
Difference of scale, when you are working on a 200k machine people dont complain near as much about the difference between a 800 and a 1100 bill if its back in time. That difference is your friend
I won't (and can't) disclose what I made at my dealer when I left. But, after 14 years, bring "THE" guy at my dealer and basically working as much as I wanted (40 hrs a week). I never came anywhere close to that. Factor in gear installs on the side and also the income from other local shops paying me to come in for them as needed and I may have gotten close to $75k a year.
I have been in the diesel side for 14 years now spent some time time around the automotive side starting out. On this side there a lot of options to be a mechanic and not work for a dealer. Most of the larger trucking company's have there own shops and pay hourly. Yes I'm sure the dealers will pay more per hour but you know if you work 40 hours this week what you will take home. Your not going to get stuck on a warrenty job and make 10 hours pay for 15 hours of work. We send most of our warrenty work back to the dealers so we do not have to deal with it. We still need things fixed in a timely manor but we want to make sure it is right when it leaves. It costs a lot more to fix a truck on the road then it does in our own shop. We always help each other out, if someone needs help or a job requires two people that is what we do. It is a very different atmosphere from a auto dealership. I would like to see more applicants for jobs we post from the automotive side, most of the applications I see have little or any experience in working on cars or trucks. We need more people that have basic repair skills. One of the guys that works for me had never worked on cars or trucks when he started with us 3 years ago now he has became a very good mechanic. We hired him because of his welding skills ( he was a production welder) and was willing to learn something new.
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(if that was so I would have a new Smith buggy!!!!)
