So I was having a discussion with someone and they were saying that they don’t believe me about union wages. Specifically I’m a union carpenter in NYC and they ‘called bullshit’ on my statements.
It got me curious what the internet has to say about my wages that are readily available public knowledge. I’m a cynical dude and I’m aware there is an abundance of really bad information available on the internet but I was a bit surprised at how bad the information was.
I found zip recruiter very quickly. They dominated my search results. They also underestimate my earning by at least 50%. Not like they are a little bit off, they are literally claiming a union carpenter earns about half of what we do earn.
This is the pay scale for a union carpenter working commercial construction in Manhattan supplied by the contractors that pay these rates…
https://www.wcc-ny.com/_files/ugd/056804_a9a6a29f998d471e99ee9c9b3bd1076f.pdf
Zip recruiter and Glassdoor are giving out some REALLY wrong information.