Shortage of auto mechanics nationwide including Portland, creates career opportunity
Shortage of auto mechanics nationwide including Portland, creates career opportunity
A big shortage of professional auto mechanics is a reality nationwide, including Portland. That could mean career opportunities for those willing to learn the trade.
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There isn’t a tech shortage. There is a pay shortage.
The problem is manufacture pay flate rate time that they control if their technician get good a some thing they cut the time and make hard make hard to make a living, every month in dealer ship you got keep upgrading training that they don’t pay for, tools you need to do the job are fucking expenses, and you look down on compare to suit and tie sales guy
Little money and no respect turning wrenches ! Education and Tools can easily set you back 30 to 50 thousand dollars before you earn a pay check.
Huge overhead, poor work environment, and YouTube armed customers?
Glad I retire in 3 years.
I advise anybody who will listen NOT to be a mechanic You do so much free work under warranty The average pay is 40k a year! HVAC pays close to 100k Only one week vacation even if there 10 years, no holidays paid, and Dealerships treat techs like shit. Then all is great until something goes wrong, then you are called a liar and a thief Chrysler owes me 250k for 20 years of free warranty work. Sure work for years doing free work and work yourself up to do MORE free work. PAY up suckers!
That lady is lying about how much we make lol
Been there done that. Master certified diesel tech that lived through all the bs. Now you assholes get what was coming to ya. Let years ago, don’t touch a wrench for under 100$ an hour now.
auto mechanic are underpay and will always continue to be unfairly treated. KIDS stay away from the auto tech life. do it only as a hobby
And college teaches you almost nothing
There is NO shortage.
Employers WON’T PAY.
Great Job spreading the word about the AWESOME opportunity to become an Automotive Technician! If you take it serious and learn how to properly diagnose and repair todays Crazy Complex Vehicles you have a VERY BRIGHT FUTURE!
Especially as an A Level Diagnostic Master Certified Tech!
l know from personal experience of owing 2 successful Auto Shops, my last one here in Hillsboro Oregon.
In fact, I sold my second shop so I can come back into the industry and help create more Master Techs..here is a KOOL video showing my new Big Why….https://youtu.be/cY7_psNL2VQ?si=2CrHWOnPaM08DKvv
Crying worker shortages as an industry is monopsony power,it’s lowlife fucking criminal and an admission of guilt."That monopsony power — market power held by buyers — is given equal billing to the threat of anticompetitive conduct in product markets or prejudice in hiring is striking. Yet, monopsony is alleged to be rampant in the labor market as employers hold wages below competitive levels."
People who have never turned a wrench commenting about shop jobs 😂😂😂😂 get yourself a $60k snap on Debt at $350 a month then add all your travel expenses plus your scan tool subscriptions. Then get greeted with $13 an hour for 2 years before any promotions
This video is bullshit unless your working for fucking Lamborghini forget it walk away coming from an ex car tech work for tractor dealers if you wanna wrench you wont live paycheck to paycheck im currently making almost double and i work half as hard
It’s a pay shortage and employers used Covid to squeeze out their higher paid staff, then virtue signal about hiring low paid trainees to replace them.
BRING MONEY OR GET THE FUCK OUT!
Consultants and customer service don’t need to be paid more than the techs. You don’t see a receptionist making more than the doctor doing the surgery.
I think cars are just being made too complicated understand and annoying to take apart then its worth to repair it. If something no longer make economic sense, workers wont show up.
Get rid of flat rate pay or pay techs more but honestly get rid of flat rate and idk what that lady is talking about but most techs might make that much but dump a quarter to half of their income in tools dumb lady you cant look at numbers and think you know what youre talking about
60-100k if you work at an always busy shop and have seniority and work open to close without days off in a high stress, dog-eat-dog environment… dude, its not worth it. 10+ year mechanic here, worked at corporate shops all during that time. Go in, learn your skill sets, and get out as fast as you can. The same skills are easily transfered to other significantly higher paid industries.
The real shortage is lack of employers paying a fair wage for the work involved. Burger flippers make a better income.
I have yet to see a news clip asking technicians who left _WHY_ they left.
Wages make this a job not worth doing. Stay away from this industry.
Weird how a warranty claims person can make a good living just by robbing me.
Ummm.. This "SHORTAGE" been going on Ever since the 1990s.. Its a skilled trade that is NOT viewed or treated as a skill trade, untill some dumb asses vehicle breaks down… Just a 30-plus year observation..
Scumbag dealer in Sandy,OR charging $180 not paying the techs even 20%.80% gross margins on service labor and crying shortages like retarded crooks.
There’s no shortage… Just pay better and offer up better benefits and you will find your techs.
Why do you think that there is a shortage of auto technicians?There only seems to be a shortage of dumb and cheap around here.If only 0.01% of these people decided that they wanted to fix cars in a shithole dealer for a living?? "There are about 21.1 million people who have a bachelor’s or higher degree in a science or engineering (S&E)"
Bad pay.
22 year Diesel Mechanic here. Seniority means nothing anymore. With the shortage. Everyone does the same work. I get to pick and choose. But still. Shops cheat and got rid of shop Foreman. My dream was to get off the floor by my 40s. Nope. Still in the floor. You will never get promoted if you are awesome at your job. You have to be at the right place at the right time. When I started out. Old timers did not do dirty work or work weekends or holidays. Most were in charge. Them days are long gone..
Stop the CAP 60 to 100k is not even livable nor close to what youll actualy be making with less than 5 years hands on experience. This industry needs to stop lying to its consumers.
Since when technicians are called mechanics? 🤔 It kinda makes sense though
Retired transmission rebuilder here, stay away from fixing cars
Do not listen to this paid garbage. I tell everybody I can stay away from this industry. The only thing you will have to show for it is a bad back, banged up hands and 5-6 figures in tools that you’ll never get your money back for. For all the young guys stay away from this field and ESPECIALLY STAY AWAY FROM THE DEALERS AND BIG CHAINS IF YOU WANT TO KEEP YOUR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH INTACT! YOU WILL NEVER GET PAID WHAT YOUR WORTH! If you absolutely do decide to take this route, find local government fleet maintenance work on police cruisers, trucks, trains, etc. Get in and get your feet wet to move up the ranks! These are the only positions that have decent and consistent pay with good benefits and retirement! Good luck to you ALL!
Yeah pay mechanics and you won’t have a shortage
$60k-$100k a year😂😂😂😂 you can google the national average and it’s $35k-$65k and that’s not accounting for tool cost.
Good luck portland, even Walmart has moved away. because you made crime legal. Plus your tax is High and your retirement pay is out of control. you made your bed now lay in it.
Retired auto tech here, The pay is sucks, its no better than 20 to 25 years ago. And lets talk about massive tool investment. I predicted this mess 20 years ago
All any individual employer has to do is raise wages slightly above the average and they would have all the employees they ever wanted.They CANNOT cry shortages as an industry,organization or association of two or more businesses or they are making an anticompetitive agreement which is criminal.AGENTS AND DAWN RAIDS!
"Price fixing is an agreement (written, verbal, or inferred from conduct) among competitors to raise, lower, maintain, or stabilize prices or price levels. Generally, the antitrust laws require that each company establish prices and other competitive terms on its own, without agreeing with a competitor. When purchasers make choices about what products and services to buy, they expect that the price has been determined on the basis of supply and demand, not by an agreement among competitors. When competitors agree to restrict competition, the result is often higher prices. Price fixing also includes agreements among competing purchasers or competing employers about the prices or WAGES they will pay. Price fixing is a major concern of government antitrust enforcement. Individuals and companies that knowingly enter price-fixing agreements are routinely investigated by the FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies and can be criminally prosecuted. Potential penalties include lengthy terms of imprisonment (up to ten years) and large fines (up to $1 million for individuals, $100 million for companies, or twice the gain or loss from the offense). Where appropriate, the FTC may also bring a civil enforcement action."
I dont think Pay itself is the main problem. i think its couple things I speak only why i left . I live in EU.
1. cars these are complex and require more time to fix and often person experinced in such field of repair
2.work environment its noise,dirty,oily, you work with heat,heavy lifting often, some repair are just tough to figure out in small time ,you need to spend years in the field to get experinced cause its so much electrical problems
3.Salaries vs the work for the work experince,work environment,stress mainwhile you can similar job and arrive clean from home with less stress,higher salary
4. these days its harder to get information from dealership about complex repairs especially in heavy equitment .(but oppsite with car its easier to find information on youtube or google.
5. Cars these days are so poorly made and designed&engineered(mostly).
I dont plan on return to that field in near future.
I wrenched on 70’s shit boxes when I was in highschool in early 2000’s. thought I would get into working on cars as a career. did a few repairs on modern cars, forget that. Now I make bank sitting on my ass in IT and work on 70’s shitboxes for fun. The career isn’t fun and not rewarding enough financially.
Cost of tools is ridiculous
Demonize trade work for decades and act shocked when people don’t want to go into the trades. Treat tradesmen like we’re sub-human and act confounded when we say we don’t appreciate it. Pay us like you think every technician is exactly the same and replaceable and act befuddled when we leave the industry and leave you to figure it out yourselves. YOU need US, not the other way around. We will be fine without you, we’re handy like that.
So much WRONG info in this video that it’s honestly pretty funny. Thank God im not in this industry anymore ✌️
Dealerships are rip off artists. Manufacturers included.
I Kenya we are many,,,
ANTICOMPETITIVE LABOR PRACTICES + SLIMY CAR CROOKS= TECHNICIAN SHORTAGES Then the fucking retard named Jerome Powell is claiming "structural labor shortages"?? "The report, “The State of Labor Market Competition in the U.S. Economy,” finds that the American labor market falls far from the perfect competition that economists had long assumed due to employer concentration and anti-competitive labor practices."
Try having 100k in tools and equipment to only make $30 an hr flat rate time also be taxed on your labor 🤷🏻♂️Also dont forget about the time and currency for the education to know how to do all of these things🤷🏻♂️. Right there is somebody in there I have a package for Taylor.
Go figure! Search "Industries Crying About Labor Shortages Keep Getting Busted Suppressing Wages" Wage suppression causes shortages and crying shortages as an industry is an admission of guilt.A worker shortage can only be an individual business issue and it is obviously because they are not paying enough.
"Workers are entitled to the benefits of a competitive market for their services. They are harmed if companies that would ordinarily compete against each other to recruit and retain employees agree to fix wages or other terms of employment or enter into so-called "no-poaching" agreements by agreeing not to recruit each other’s employees.
Going forward, the Justice Department intends to criminally investigate naked no-poaching or wage-fixing agreements that are unrelated or unnecessary to a larger legitimate collaboration between the employers. These types of agreements eliminate competition in the same irredeemable way as agreements to fix the prices of goods or allocate customers, which have traditionally been criminally investigated and prosecuted as hardcore cartel conduct."
Stop paying them peanuts