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ilvwhtgrls

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Posted: February 20, 2005 at 7:12 PM / IP Logged

soundmasta,

your pay is not fair but it usually your own fault for getting paid so little... you need to market yourself to your bosses on your own individual value. do you offer your company anything besides just install skills?

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Posted: February 20, 2005 at 9:42 PM / IP Logged

Installers typically make enough to get by, but not enough to be happy.

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i make less than 10 bucks an hour... with solid installing skills and EXCELLENT sales skills

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Posted: February 21, 2005 at 7:22 AM / IP Logged

i am more than just a basic installer. i have very extensive knowlage of product, not just ours, but competitors too, good troubleshooting skills, i can fiberglass, ect. example- another shop in town had two or three guys working on a car for two hours, trying to get a radio in the dash, and they couldn't do it. time it took me when they finally gave up and sent it over- 15 minutes. im valuable on the sales floor too.

i have also took personal time to orginize a car audio competition league for customers that can't afford or don't want to do iasca or dbdrag that includes 4 other area stores, almost all of northren michigan! it will peak intrest in car audio in the area and boost sales.

you're right i don't get paid enough, i've even had job offers form other shops, that haven't even actually seen my work, to start at 12-15 an hour. the reason i don't get paid that much is that we're a newer shop, (just under a year) and, although we do good, i know that i couldn't get much more that i do just yet. the boss know's he's gettin a deal, but i work a a nice shop. i'll eventually get a raise.

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Posted: March 01, 2005 at 1:24 AM / IP Logged

68000 Holy crap on a cracker!! Is that Canadian?

gyuszy119

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Posted: March 05, 2005 at 6:27 AM / IP Logged

ok i have 5 years experience and i get paid 1.70$/hour is that fair? (romania)

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Posted: March 05, 2005 at 1:04 PM / IP Logged

that would depend on the average wage in Romania... here ( Canada) you would be making about $10-15 pr/ hour....

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extreme1

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Posted: March 08, 2005 at 1:46 AM / IP Logged

jbarb wrote:

68000 Holy crap on a cracker!! Is that Canadian?

yes that's canadian, I've already made 23k this year, I'll never go back to salary again.

Shaughn Murley

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Visions Electronics

Red Deer, Alberta

ph4lc0n

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Posted: March 16, 2005 at 1:25 AM / IP Logged

Shaughn:

Hey, I think I've also seen you post on direchtechs I think!

Anyways, I was just wondering how you have your commision set up. I work for a smaller shop in a smaller city where during some times of the year, a commision wouldn't be the greatest thing, but I was still curious as to how (number wise) it is set up, and how you first got it set up that way.

Thx in advance.

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Adam Marsh

Installer Since Oct /04

Northern BC, Canada

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cayuga420

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Posted: March 18, 2005 at 9:28 PM / IP Logged

when you first star out hourly or salary is better until you get your spped down. once you get to where you can work on just about any kind of car and be relatively fast then find somewhere that pays commision. then you get paid on what you actually do. usually in a hourly type shop the guy who has been there the longest makes the most and does the least. i get 55% on the labor and made a little over 67,000 last year. mostly on dealership work.

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