Our home has been decorated for a year, and the biggest feeling is that the decoration master is expensive, and the decoration master who knows technology is even more expensive.
List the data of the masters we are looking for, the coordinates are Shanghai, and they are all masters who work more carefully.
Bricklayer 1000-1200 a day.
8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
We gave them rice.
Marble master, the company gave them food and taxis, taxi pick-up to go to the customer's house to work.
The painter is 600 a day, and he has finished the schedule for half a year, and his work is very compact.
Carpentry skilled worker 500-600 a day.
Electricians are also 600 a day.
These are the wages of 8 hours a day and 5 nights in the morning, and some masters work hard, and they go to work overtime at night after working during the day, and the income is much higher.
And then because they have a full schedule, they are very picky. If you don't do the work that is too hard and tiring, you have to give them cigarettes and rice.
There is a more active worker, who says that he is now a small package foreman. When the year is poor, you can earn about 800,000 a year.
Nowadays, fewer and fewer people are willing to do manual work, and they all want to sit in the office. Therefore, physical work, especially manual work with a little study cost, is becoming more and more expensive.
This is the case in Shanghai, where housing prices are very high, and so is in Changsha, which is known for its high cost performance.
An up master on station b exclaimed that the electrician master in Changsha earned 50,000 yuan a month in 2022, and when the two met in September 2023, the other party told her that she had a monthly income of 100,000.
She asked him for maintenance again, because when she was decorating the room, she found a random person on the Internet, and after installing the range hood, the socket was plugged in, and the spark was lightning.
When I opened it, I found that the thread was stuffed in a ball, and the work was not done properly.
After Master He appeared, he solved all the problems at once, so Master He's ** is more expensive than others.
But the list is never finished, just because it is a good life.
Two cities, two cases, one truth: the income of manual laborers in big cities is getting higher and higher.
Skilled manual laborers are even more scarce.
The above up master said an episode.
She installed a water purifier, and the brand felt that the new local master was unreliable, so she sent a master from Wuhan to Changsha.
This is evident in how much the market places emphasis on technology itself.
Master, your future has come.
In fact, whether or not they have the technology that is not passed on to the public, the income of manual workers will be higher and higher in the future.
In most developed countries, the wages of ordinary white-collar workers are far lower than those of manual workers.
According to Statistics Canada, the average hourly wage for skilled trades in Canada is 6 percent higher than for other jobs2%。Scrapyard workers, car repairers, excavator drivers, carpenters, bricklayers, and plumbers can all earn more than $30 an hour, which is close to the average salary in the IT industry. (If you work 8 hours a day, you can get 2 a month.)80,000 RMB. ）
The salary of German technicians is also higher than the national average salary, for example, the annual salary of technical school graduates is 35,000 euros, and college graduates go to work as white-collar workers and get 30,000 euros a year. (That's equivalent to getting 2 a month.)30,000 RMB).
In the front line of European and American manufacturing enterprises, the annual income of skilled workers with better skills can reach more than 100,000 US dollars, and the annual income of senior technicians can even exceed that of department managers. (That's equivalent to getting 5 a month.)40,000 RMB).
A netizen living in Los Angeles found a plumber to repair a small part, **from $300:
So you will see that in American movies, the male and female protagonists are repairing things at home when they have nothing to do. There's really no way to find someone to come to the door.
It's not that they're particularly industrious and unwilling to trouble others, but it's too expensive to find someone to come to the door, if it's not for the financial resources of Iron Man and Batman, please have to hurt for a long time at a time.
Although China is not yet a developed country, the same situation is gradually beginning to appear in the manufacturing industry.
There is a factory boss on Douyin who complains:
As long as the welder who can fire is 350 a day, it is difficult to recruit people. ”
We started with a salary of 10,000 yuan, but only 5 people were recruited in the workshop of 30 people. ”
These are not first-tier cities, and the average salary of white-collar workers is far from five figures. It can be said that skilled workers earn much more than those who sit in the office.
In 2021, "China Youth Daily" also investigated this phenomenon, and Jiangsu HR said that the technical workers he recruited with a salary of 8,000 yuan had just been snatched away by the electronics factory next door with a monthly salary of 10,000 yuan.
He looked at it very lightly, and he was not angry at all.
Two years later, some factories in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province begged hard, and I took out 10,000 yuan, why is it still so difficult to recruit technicians.
It is difficult to recruit people with high salaries, and the wailing of mechanics is everywhere.
What's even more exaggerated is that as early as ten years ago, the boss of Hunan Xinning said:
What China lacks most is skilled workers, not so-called college students who don't know anything.
Why is he so emotional, because he went to Guangdong 4 times, Jiangxi 2 times, and also went to Zhuzhou, Changsha, and Yueyang in Hunan, and barely recruited half of the people he needed.
The salary I gave was high enough, and in 2013, there were more than 10,000 in Hunan, why not.
Now, ten years later, I know why this boss failed.
Skilled workers rely on the recommendation of acquaintances to find jobs. Most of the good workers were broken up as early as the introduction of acquaintances, and if you don't have to do it, you really can't find workers to work.
In other words, a good worker is the same as a good aunt, and it is not in circulation at all in the market. As long as they have a schedule, they will be more sought-after than anyone else.
Source: Research Report on the Employment of Blue-Collar Groups in China (2022).
Even a boss in Ningbo said: When you go back to your hometown, bring me some people back to work together. Those who bring it back will be rewarded for it.
Bringing back a worker can get 200-500 yuan.
Only by recommending an intermediate or senior person can you reward 1,000 yuan.
When the remuneration is high, respect will naturally come.
Some technicians do not need to work on site, they only need to give guidance and give constructive suggestions;
They left early and came late during the New Year, and the boss didn't dare to urge, so they jumped to a friend when they were in a hurry, and the monthly salary of 50,000 yuan was not what to do.
The working environment is also much greener and healthier, and the occupational life span has also been extended.
You see, the bosses line up and let the workers pick the boss.
Have you ever seen such a scene?
On the one hand, college students are the most difficult employment season every year.
On the other side, skilled workers are popular.
It's easy to see why this is happening.
In the past, college students were the pride of the sky, and it was not easy for the whole family to be admitted to a college student. Because literate people are scarce, they have high incomes and good treatment.
However, since the expansion of university enrollment in 1999, China has enrolled more and more college students every year.
In 1998, out of the 3.2 million people taking the college entrance examination, only 1.08 million were admitted, with an acceptance rate of 34 per cent.
In 2012, 9.15 million people took the college entrance examination and 6.85 million were admitted, with an acceptance rate of 75%.
The labor market also conforms to the "supply-demand" curve. There are more and more college students, but the market has not grown to the point where it can accommodate so many clerical jobs. In the case of an oversupply of non-famous graduates, it is naturally becoming more and more difficult to find a job, and the salary is getting worse and worse.
Moreover, some college majors are consumer goods rather than productivity tools, and it is naturally difficult to find a job for those who pursue higher spiritual needs after not worrying about material things.
On the other hand, because they all went to college, there are fewer and fewer people who are willing to enter technical schools and learn a technology from a master. There are fewer and fewer people willing to do manual work.
Because the physical work is just too tiring.
As a bricklayer, although you can get 1,000 yuan a day, you have to bend over all the time when you work, and many masters have fallen ill because of this. How can an ergonomic chair sit comfortably?
As a welder, wear thick overalls even in the hottest part of summer. If the sparks splash and hit an unprotected area, it is a scald.
Most blue-collar jobs come with certain risks, and after a few years of doing it, there will be some physical problems.
It's not just tiring and risky.
Really high-paying manual work also has a threshold.
Don't talk about driving excavators and forklifts.
The same is plastering cement, a master with good technology and a master with poor technology, then it will be different.
The same is a master who is engaged in circuits and can accept new technologies and new methods, and the master who rests on his laurels is not the same.
Not to mention stir-frying, chefs with good skills get a salary of 50,000 yuan every month, and thieves are respected, and they can't get 10,000 yuan if they don't have good skills.
So don't look at some white-collar workers complaining that "it's too hard to beat workers, it's better to be workers", but if you really want them to be workers, they will find that they don't know anything but do the most unhurried pure manual work.
And the income of that kind of life is often not high. For example, an ordinary waiter only has a monthly salary of 5500-10000.
What is scarce are skilled workers who have the ability to learn, rather than purely selling physical strength to make screws.
But these people are a minority in the crowd after all, and most of them have gone to college and are not willing to do manual work at all.
As a result, skilled manual laborers are becoming scarcer and more expensive.
There was a discussion before.
Skilled blue-collar workers with a monthly salary of more than 10,000 yuan, and the "lattice white-collar workers" who squeeze the subway, eat boxed lunches, and enter and exit CBD office buildings, who are closer to the middle class.
The conclusion is very contrary to common sense, and everyone generally believes that the small white-collar workers with a monthly salary of 3,000 are the real "new bottom of society".
The reason is that among the 10 million graduates who are sold every year, a large number of graduates can only get jobs with a monthly salary of 3,000.
Because they don't have a skill, they just rely on graduate school to postpone graduation.
Therefore, many people began to think backwards, thinking that "in China, blue-collar gentrification is inevitable." ”
I checked, and this is what Yan Fei, a scholar at Tsinghua University, said in 2021.
He speculates that internet platforms can help new blue-collar workers earn higher incomes, and they are more likely to become middle-class.
He said: Judging from the statistical data, China's future development trend is an olive-shaped society, and the channel for upward mobility is still opening. ”
So here comes the question:
Since blue-collar workers are going up, who's going down?
It won't be someone who buys A shares with a monthly income of 3,000.
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