pslewis

Nice pay for whistling at women and owning trousers with the top part of the 4rse cut out ....

"A shortage of skilled labourers has helped push pay packets for the country's top bricklayers past the £100,000 mark, according to industry experts.

Recruitment firm Deverell Smith and building consultants EC Harris told The Times the recruitment problem was so acute it was threatening to damage efforts to boost housebuilding.

The firms warned that an exodus of labourers in the wake of the financial crisis meant that the construction industry was struggling to recruit enough bricklayers, joiners, stone-fixers and plasterers now the recovery was gathering momentum"

neil-h

Nice try but I can't see there are many brickies on Scoobynet. So I'll give it a 3 for planning and a 5 for execution. Could try harder I'm afraid.

scoobyboy1

iTrader: (16)

Probably earn that sort of cash down London, but cant see them earning it working up North etc!!
Reminds me of the same sort of story I read 6-7 years ago that plumbers where earning £70k a year, Think they write these storys when they have a shortage of a certain labourers so that people go out and train to do these jobs in hope they will be on £100k etc!!!

BLU

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PaulC72

Pete I could well believe it now we are in a rising market, when we were in boom times before Labour, the brickies moved daily from jobs as they kept getting more money driving the price up.

The supply and demand is already here try buying a lorry load of brick or block they are on quite a lead in currently due to the house builders buying them all up.

stevebt

iTrader: (8)

The only way brickies will be making £100k a year is if they are employing lots of men and taking a cut in their wages.

boomer

At least post a link to justify/confirm your post

mb

CREWJ

In turn over possibly but no way in profit.

pslewis

It's all over the industry press .... http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/new...s-brawn-drain/

CREWJ

Just found you can actually find bricklaying job adverts at £100k-120k a year.

That is the top of the market though with most at £40-50k. That's considering that brickies work 5 days a week every week. Which is realistic considering, I bet, most do 6 days a week.

zip106

This is more like it, from the same article....

'Meanwhile, the average self-employed bricklayer is earning £150-£200 a day, the equivalent of £40,000-£50,000 a year, and that figure is expected to rise this year.'

As someone said above, the only 'brickies' earning £100k will be the contractors that employ 10 others.

I've been working on sites for the last 29 years - I've seen the highs, the lows, the recessions and everything in between.
No self employed sole trader bricky, plasterer, plumber etc would ever have earned £100k a year.

Eta - possibly in Australia.
My new neighbour is from Melbourne - he tells me of cleaners in the mining boom earning $100k per year.

jonc

That's pittance, I hear it's possible to get paid £300k a week for kicking a piece of inflated leather, enough to pay for a fair few grannies.

alex06 wrx

The brickies in london are just getting 130 to 150 a day and carpenters are getting just a little bit more. But on price work I can get anywhere between 40 on a very bad day and 300 on a very good day ( I am a carpenter )

zip106

Seriously?
That's very low for those trades.

I know painters in the midlands getting more than that.
Price work I agree can be quite lucrative.

alex06 wrx

Yeah I know but everyone's chasing the same work in London

boomer

So why did you not include the (or a similar) link in your original post?

mb

dpb

My bro in law from Perth talks about ridiculous cash to be earnt around mining back home, for menial jobs.

Preachers where it's at though if you ask me - money for old rope, get chauffeured around in your merc, perform the odd "miracle" , bit of ghey bashing to rally the troops - only work Sundays

tony de wonderful

Yeah but you have to spend most of your life living on a mine site and resources goes in cycles, plus Perth is stupidly expensive to live in.

Australia is a funny place becasue there isn't unrestricted immigration. If eastern euros had a right to move there you would see mining wages plummet. This is why I can never see menial or semi-skilled jobs booming in the UK because supply is always going to be there.

pslewis

Because those with more than 1 brain cell can locate the story within 5 seconds, I don't cater for half wits.

stipete75

Haha funny as ****, 100k per annum, no chance!
Down here in the south brickies are lucky to be getting £14-15 an hour site work.
A good bricklayer will earn around £500-600 for a full week, don't forget it's a summer trade really and we are rained off a lot.

Graz

You'd have thought by now they'd be either a mechanised method for brick laying or an alternative method for building houses. Okay the latter does exist but aren't widely used (formed concrete, timber frame, steel frame, etc.). You really can't beat bricks and mortar construction for houses just that it's quite labour intensive.

legb4rsk

Just goes to prove the wage gap is getting too wide.I expect the bosses at the Australian mines are still earning a fortune.If it means the workers get a fair share of the profit then all well & good.I'm not worried if the board members have to take home 9 million dollars instead of 10 million.

mattstant

Total and utter row locks
I pay brickies and if we paid that amount we couldn't afford to build any houses seriously doubt that much can be earnt in London either.

That Management today article is suspiciously short on corroboration.
there "source" appears to be two employment recruitment and consultancies ???

and low and behold a search for bricklaying jobs on one of them produces this result

http://s29.postimg.org/aovwxc7uv/bricklayers.png

<laugh>

Dingdongler

Forget about anything even close to that in London. I've hired decent brickies quite a few times over the last couple of years. The most recent being about three months ago.

adz556

iTrader: (5)

I work as a site agent for a contractor and we aren't even paying the bosses enough to earn that. Prices on site are still no where what they used to be but i do agree....there is a MASSIVE shortage of bricklayers. A lot of our subcontractors are struggling to maintain labour numbers.

dpb

Pete got his info off that yougov. Website probably

The one with multiple false adverts. ....

SRSport

Now hang on just a minute there. This is pslewis you're talking about. I cant believe how anyone could make such a comment about the most reliable, accurate and well informed poster SN has ever seen.

...how much do teachers earn again Pete?

hodgy0_2

What they have done to get that figure

Is take what a desperate developer, behind on a project, that might cost him a lot of cash, if some buyers pulled out, has a paid for a bricky for a couple of days work to finish the project

They have then taken this figure and assumed that is what a bricky could earn 8 hours a day, 6 days a week

boomer

..or rather,you realised that you were yet again going to be exposed as a troll, so "did a google" and slipped the top link in as your "doesn't everyone know" response!

mb

boomer

Indeed entering "Brickies on £100k a year" into Google comes up as ScoobyNet being the fourth most popular hit - kinda confirming the self-fulfilling troll effect.

mb