Related: Workers' rage over move to Mexico caught on video. Molina dropped out of high school in the 10th grade and he's worked at Crown for 10 years. Sankar too dropped out of school before migrating to the U. Not everyone makes six figures, but most trash workers are doing better than high school dropouts and even graduates. Education Department. Guys who go to college might not make the kind of money " I make on the back of a garbage truck, picking up trash," says Sankar.
Not only do they earn a good salary, their wages are growing faster than the average too. That's because it's not easy to find workers in the business. Employers can't find qualified truck drivers, landfill operators or mechanics. David Antonacci says he got 50 applications when he advertised for a truck driver's job. Only four applicants had a commercial drivers license and all four had penalties on their licenses.
So Antonacci couldn't hire any of them. Related: Yelp CEO responds to employee letter on low wages. That lack of available talent is one key reason why Antonacci and others in the industry have given out raises at a faster pace than the national average. It's the same story in other parts of the country.
Kathy Morris runs a waste management facility in Davenport, Iowa, and she's raised wages to retain employees. Related: British oil industry warns it may collapse. It's far from an easy job. Read on to learn more about typical wages for garbage collector jobs.
BLS statistics show that garbage men in metropolitan areas tended to earn higher wages than those working in nonmetropolitan areas, mostly due to differences in the local cost of living. Illinois, New York and California reported some of the highest average wages for this occupation.
Outside of these states, the highest average wages were mostly concentrated in the far west and northwest. BLS statistics for May also indicate significant pay differences for garbage men working in different employment sectors. A mid-career Garbage …Read more. Garbage men are more professionally known as "refuse collectors," and their main responsibility is to drive along assigned routes and collect trash and recycling.
Most garbage men work early in the morning, and their main "tool" is a garbage truck with hydraulic lifts, which allow the truck to pick up trash containers. For some garbage men, getting out of the truck is unnecessary; however, those without hydraulic lifts must manually lift and deposit trash into the garbage truck, so it's highly …Read more.
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