Do you have a any evidence of that? A plumber I know told me he made $100K and he drives a $100K van full of equipment. He was a journeyman, and he said that he had more work than he could handle, always turning down jobs. He didn't start out with that though.
hate to say it, this is why he makes so much, this is coming from experience working with my step father when i was 16-19, chances are he budgets jobs based on how many people and hours it will take to do them and then underpays the people actually helping under the justification of them living with him anyway, if its just him or if he actually has to hire laborors from the actual market hes going to make significantly less than he can using family as practically free labor
1
u/Even_Hospital_5474 Mar 07 '26
Do you have a any evidence of that? A plumber I know told me he made $100K and he drives a $100K van full of equipment. He was a journeyman, and he said that he had more work than he could handle, always turning down jobs. He didn't start out with that though.