Steve
06-16-2006, 11:59 PM
Check out some of these hourly wages. How often have you found yourself paying a foreman $52.34 an hour!!!!
Pretty amazing.
Landscaper ambivalent on immigration issues (http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/business/14736756.htm) - Because it is a government contractor, Smallwood’s company, Diversified Landscape, is required to pay prevailing wages as calculated by the state Department of Industrial Relations. Experienced laborers earn $34.24 an hour; untrained “tenders” make $14.17. Each worksite is required to have an equal number of laborers and tenders.
Landscapers who work for private clients, pay much less – about $8.50 an hour to start. But Smallwood’s higher wages don’t seem to be helping her much.
“Our difficulty in hiring is horrible,” says Cathy Gurney of Sierra Landscape & Maintenance in Chico, north of Sacramento. “We’ve been advertising for a supervisor, which would pay $15 to $25 an hour with full benefits. No one qualified is applying.”
On a recent job that went into overtime, a Diversified Landscape foreman was making $52.34 an hour.
http://www.fortwayne.com/images/fortwayne/journalgazette/news/LATWP-IMMIG-JOBS_06-04-2006_7Q6RCV1.jpg
Pretty amazing.
Landscaper ambivalent on immigration issues (http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/business/14736756.htm) - Because it is a government contractor, Smallwood’s company, Diversified Landscape, is required to pay prevailing wages as calculated by the state Department of Industrial Relations. Experienced laborers earn $34.24 an hour; untrained “tenders” make $14.17. Each worksite is required to have an equal number of laborers and tenders.
Landscapers who work for private clients, pay much less – about $8.50 an hour to start. But Smallwood’s higher wages don’t seem to be helping her much.
“Our difficulty in hiring is horrible,” says Cathy Gurney of Sierra Landscape & Maintenance in Chico, north of Sacramento. “We’ve been advertising for a supervisor, which would pay $15 to $25 an hour with full benefits. No one qualified is applying.”
On a recent job that went into overtime, a Diversified Landscape foreman was making $52.34 an hour.
http://www.fortwayne.com/images/fortwayne/journalgazette/news/LATWP-IMMIG-JOBS_06-04-2006_7Q6RCV1.jpg