Topic: DRAFTER/DESIGNER PAYSCALE

[Draftek]

heh.

As long as your happy with it...

[Greg B]

The way I see it, I've put 6 good years into this house and built up some equity.  Might as well enjoy some of it now instead of waiting 30+ years down the line.

[MaverickŪ]

  Equity can be deceiving.

  Yes you walk away from the house with X amount of dollars.  I know you have done some work to it and you probably have a good idea what that investment was.  How much $ in taxes have you paid in 6 yrs?  How much have you spent in water for the lawn, seed, fertilizer, mower, gas, heat, electricity that would have been included in a rent payment?  Not to mention the actual house payment and insurance.  The hours of work you have put into maintaining?  What are those worth?  All of this would be subtracted from what you "made" on the house, or "equity", to get a real number.

  Just another POV.

  Of course there is the feeling of owning something.  And some people really do enjoy yard/maintenance work.  *shudder*

[Draftek]

The way I see it, I've put 6 good years into this house and built up some equity.  Might as well enjoy some of it now instead of waiting 30+ years down the line.

Do yourself a favor, put the extra money on the down payment, get a 10 or 15 year loan and pay it off early.

You will thank me in 7 or 8 years..

[Greg B]

Numbers don't work to get it down to 10 or 15 year loan.  Not yet anyway.

It is in our best interest to pay off the van and student loan and use the money that was going towards those as the extra we will be paying on our second mortgage first.

I think we will get that second down pretty quickly.  By the time we get it way down, we will be nearing the end of our ARM and we will probably refinance into a 15 year loan.

We will save that 8 years this way.

[Draftek]

Second Morgage? Ouch! Sorry to hear that.

Oh well, at least your not taking your extra money and buying a new car. I've seen that done before. Nothing like financing a new car for 30 years

[Tom]

Been resisting posting here in this thread but since it has sort of been
Hijacked and gone off track a bit I thought I'd bring it back

Position = Chief Draftsperson
Salary   = 85k year AU plus 20% super + Company car & petrol

Just been offered a job working from home for $65 per hour with unllimited hours per week (have to learn Solid works)
at the moment there is a shortage of good Drafters here in Austrailia and because of that the pay scale is climbing

[Bob Wahr]

Are many companies in Australia willing to pay for overseas relocation, help with visas, etc.?  Only asking because I could be packed in a week.

[Bob Wahr]

I can hear Kerry screaming from here at the mere thought of it.

[Kerry]

The painting "Primal Scream" comes to mind ...

Just a note to make allowance for the currency exchange rate
.. todays rate :
1 USD = 1.33439 AUD   
1 AUD = 0.749406 USD 

also the quote "good Drafters"  .. and Tom does belong in this category


.... oh, and snake and spider anti-venom is not cheap ..

[uncoolperson]

"good Drafters"

me neither... but i am good at converting O2 into CO2 and methane, and taking up lots of space


wait... no i'm not, i'm a smoker... and i'm 'that skinny (125 lbs) little 23 y/o" guess i'm not good at anything... dangit

[Bob Wahr]

also the quote "good Drafters"

Wow, thanks.  Always nice to have a slam waiting for you first thing in the morning.

[MaverickŪ]

*Kelso*  Burn!!

[uncoolperson]

Title : Temp Maitnance Guy

Duties : Clean Bathrooms, Office, Loby, Vacum/Sweep/Mop Bathroom, Loby, Office, Firing Line, Indoor Firing range, and everything else

$8.75 hr, free range use (non-public hours okay)... 3.5 hrs monday/tuesday 4-5 hrs friday

[t-bear]

Location:  South-central Missouri (back in the sticks)
Position: Lead drafter/CAD manager (with 2 CAD stations, not TOO hard)
Tenure: 8 years (& counting......)
Starting pay: $9.00 pr/hr
Present pay: $13.25 pr/hr
Benifits: You GOTTA be kidding!?!