$50,000.00 a year WOW...... thats like £28,700.00 per year or £551.00 per week Tax rate = 22% average so gives you £429.00 per week for working your boll**s off after tax OOPS forgot to mention GAS< ELECTRIC< CONCIL TAX> FOOD> BOOZE..... OOPS theres more... Car tax, insurance, mot, NEW furniture... carpets.... setting up new bank accounts... 3 months complete hassle... and thats if your employed 52 weeks a year... which you will have to be to pay for everything you need just to live on... and before you lot think im talking through my ass have a look here
http://www.quesadavilla.com as i gave spain a go for 4 years sucked in... bought the dream house over a golf course.... cr*p lads... if you cant find work or make work for your self your onto a bloody hiding to nothing abroad especially if you dont have any dosh in you back pocket to last you and your family at least 3 months rent with the option of coming home to you own home
sorry had to be said this person adverting work is an agent and is taking the (french word) in my opinoin only but let us all know if any of you go and make a good living
cheers me dears
steve
New to the forum Hi
this thread is what has made me join this forum...and this post in particular.
The truth, as I now live in Canada and have done for the last 20+ years...
A good plasterer here makes about 60-75,000 on an hourly wage 2,000 hours $30 -$35 per hour on average, this doing exterior stucco's /renders.... EIFS or ROUGHCAST finishes.
For interior dry lining or as its called here taping work....all of it and I mean all of it is whats termed piece work here ...by the hour is for snagging work/deficiencies pretty much across canada as far as I know.
now to reality....the boom is over...... 1 and half to 2 years ago the above numbers would hold true,today the reality is that people have stopped spending money...the wages have dropped substantially....and many stucco applicators are out of work...Im on the west coast where exterior work goes about 10 months of the year head east to alberta and beyond and you get about 6-maybe 8 months of the year full time work...they make this up by working 12-16 hour days when they can ...ie: summer.
irrelevant of the agency ...dont be fooled I think I understand that they are charging the employee over there for the service??? is that right?
funny that ...because the cost when this was all the rage couple years back by these agencies was approx 8-$9,000 thousand canadian
Now is Canada a great place to live ....for sure but trust me the employment of plastering /stucco/taping here is no better here then in the uk......but and I say this because I am a life long plasterer trained at leeds college of building ....what the hell happened to the trade in general there ....whats with all the 3 day courses and such ...I met a kid here who did his NVQ and it took me 2 seconds to figure out that this kid knew nothing about plastering in general...he knew nothing but site skimming work.
go learn and perfect venetian plastering if you want to expand your portfolios.
to the person who asked about (Stone Render).......if you were very good at it ...were able to color the work to make it look extremely mind blowing realistic ,you would get on well here ....if not dont bother ....cultured stone has it all wrapped upand (Stone Render) would be unable to compete .
Im happy to answer any direct questions openly here on the forum
my history is 30 years in the plastering trade, internally and externally ,am a member of the worshipfull company of plaisterers and have have and still do own my own business for the last 17 years.
good luck i your searches of greener pastures
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