Pollyana

Let's keep the thread polite everyone, obviously there is a great range of earnings available in the trade, but as with every other trade it varies a huge amount from what can be earned at the bottom of the tree starting out, up to the possible earnings at the top.
Room for everyone's views, and from reading the thead it seems that everyone is accurate in the sphere about which they are talking.

To the OP, do a search through the forum and you will find numerous other threads on the same subject, with much the same info - at the bottom, the earnings are probably kak, at the top you can make a good living. Personally I take my hat off to the lot of you, doing that sort of job in this weather deserves a decent wage in return, whatever your level in the industry.

Timber Floor Au

Thats the crux huh.

The bigger the pay off, the bigger the outlay risk and responsibility.

We could all sit here, spouting what we can have and could earn, but the reality is ... be realistic.

Brickies work bloody hard, harder than most trades, and in my opinion deserve the best pay on site.

However, that isnt the case, and unless you are running 3 or 4 teams of 3 n 1 gangs, with mixture of price work, and flat work, then the reality is your gonna be earning good to average wages, and KNOW you have worked for it.

I still maintain, the wage here is on par with uk, if not slightly lower, but thats DOLLAR to POUND !!!

I had weeks in the uk, we could pull [edit good money] ! but it was spits n spates , fits n bursts !

Apart from running round keeping tabs on who is doing what, and who shoulda been where, and the taxman and vat man chomping at the bit.. whats the bloody point?

Im happier doing what i do now, and earning basic money by comparison, and enjoying my life.
Ste

andy-heather

thinking of comeing over to start this course silver trowel in perth have u heard of it if so is it the right way to get in to bricklaying cost £13000 dus it help geting permanent residency

Grayling

How come everybody who posts about this 'silver trowel' scheme is a first time poster?

Why haven't the ones who posted about it before ever returned?

king kong

I have heard of it but i wouldnt be wasting my money on it ,you would be better off starting off as a labourer and picking up the trowel that way .
I dare say it would help you get residency but wether it would be on par with a 4year city guilds or NVQ course ,i really dont know .

YAFOLEY

This is directed to Timber Floor..... HONEST, RELIABLE TRUTH..... so whoever has a problem with your answers forget it.

My hubbie a brickie and every word you've wrote from the beginning is the utmost truth.. my hubbies has also taken a 50% decrease in wage which has left us struggling. But you know what makes me laugh the minute someone asks me what my hubby does and you reply "brickie" answer is " jesus your made up so" eh don't think so.... why do I have two jobs to fit around our three children (shit came here with 200,000) no not mad spenders... just bought a house when we arrived tried to be sensible.

If you can earn 3500,00 per wk how come we currently know 3 british brickies unemployed in perth... PLUStwo we know working for subbies at 1250 per wk but no super paid and no tax paid, no holiday pay etc.....

So good on ya Timber people need to listen and let these people know that are coming over expecting 3500,00 per wk.. .shit i'd have the lot if I was earning that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1#

what part of perth you in anyhow/s..

Yvonne

king kong

Hi yvonne ,i think you may have some of the posts mixed up a little ,timber was running through what the wages are really like for the average joe and another poster was saying how much they was earning which was way in excess of what can be earnt on wages .
I also am a brickie and i have stated my income has dropped by 50% also ,more on some weeks .
I am in perth and earn 300 a day plus gst but since before xmas it has dropped right off and i at first wondered if it was just our team but after asking around it seems to be right through the people i know here .
I have at the moment been offered work in the uk doing extensions with a good friend of mine and he seems to have plenty of work at the moment and as im heading there on the 19th feb i may have to stay for a while untill it picks back up here .Hope it picks up for you guys.

Babydub77

Hello all,

I am moving to Townsville the end of July with my partner if all goes to plan.

I have a job at the Mater Hospital but my partner will be looking for employment in the building trade. He has a city and guilds certificate in bricklaying and has been doing this since he left school in 1986 (age 37 now). He can plaster, tile kitchens and floors etc and put his hand to anything really. He has no longer got his certificates will this make it difficult to find a job?

Any advice would be appreciated...