I'll assume you have no idea how a GM dealership works, hows that sound? I've never heard of a GM certified dealership, I'd think they'd all be GM certified as they are GM dealerships. No way in hell every technician at that placed is certified, as I said before there are only about 100 or so GM world class techs in the country. There is a huge difference between being GM certified and ASE certified or not having any certifications at all. My dealership has roughly 60 techs, and is the #2 dealer in AZ for CSI (customer service). We have 1 GM world class tech, 5 ASE master techs, 13 techs with some ASE certification, and a couple of the above mentioned guys are GM certified in several areas. That means the other 40 or guys at my dealership have no certifications at all. As I said before it is the service advisors job to get ahold of the customer and get the ok for a repair, not the techs. If I had to contact every customer about a repair I'd never get any work done. Now if you'll excuse me I'll go back to my idiotic grease monkey job making roughly 80k a year right out of school.

 

80K a year...


Right....

 

I'm not going to get in a pissiong match with you about what kind of money I'll make when I'm done with school. I know what I'll make and I know what the lowest and highest piad techs at my dealership make, so if you don't want to believe me thats your problem.

 

I know enough mechanics to determine the truth between fact and or fiction.

You might get 80K ... maybe if you open your own garage and do all the work yourself.


a Mechanic on average makes 35-45K a year.... and that 45K is a good one at that.

Yeah.... I've poked around at Lincoln Tech too.

 

Have no idea what Lincoln tech is ? I'll tell you this much there are 3 techs in the dealership right now that make over 100k a year. 50-60k is the average for a person coming out of the program I'm in, and I'm near the top of my class so 70-80k should not be out of the question. There is a huge shortage of quality techs right now, which is probably why people have such bad times at dealers. Most of the older guys who have been turning wrenches their whole lives are retiring rather than go through all the training to work on todays cars. As the vehicles get more complicated training is going to go up, and the highly trained techs make excellent money. I'm only planning on doing this for a couple of years until I finish business degree, or I may end up at Weber state in there automotive technology program.

 

Lincon Tech is an Automotive school ins philadelphia...they teach you everything.. and have you work on cars from Geo storms to Lamborghini Diabo's. It's awsome... ANyhow I'm just being real... Mechanics don't make that much unless they either A. have ther own shop, or B specialize in a certain area. Fabrication, Welding ETC. I can't see a guy making 100K a year to change my oil and pull my spark plugs.


I might of bee nmore gullable if you said Ferrari Dealership... but you said GM...

Common ... who's Minivan needs a 80K a year Mechanic to change the tires.... be real.

 

The guy making that kind of cash doesn't actually change tires or oil. They have high school dropouts for that grub work. A mechanic I used to know very well down here in Florida told me that a lot of the dealerships have a couple of the good, reasonably paid guys. They troubleshoot and diagnose problems, then turn them over to a more junior tech who performs the grunt work. He did that before opening his own shop. Then he did that with his own shop. If you could keep a 1/2 dozen $12/hour guys busy, then you might be able to make a decent salary.

Frankly, I don't buy that anybody coming out of a tech program is pulling down $80k a year. Where do you go from there? $100k in 2 years? $125k in 5? I've met a lot of mechanics, and none of them live in expensive communities, take nice vacations, and have solid stock portfolios. I'm sure you can make a nice living and support a family, but to make almost 2xs what a guy graduating with a BS in engineering will make? No, not hardly.

 

It has nothing to do with being specialized in a certain area, it depends on how busy you are and how much you want to make. The highest paid guy in my dealership works in the trim department. Not too much specialization there, but he is GM world class, ASE master in auto and light duty truck. He makes 30 bucks an hours and flags close to 150 give or take a little hours a week. Thats a 108k before taxes, and I've personally seen him flag over 200 hours a pay period on several occasions. We have a tranny guy who makes over 100k, and one of the drivability guys does as well. These guys only do grunt work, (oil changes, tire rotations, etc.) when there is nothing else going on. I'm fortunate enough to work at the number 1 chevy dealership for customer service in AZ, the dealership supports training they even pay for it if you pass, not many dealerships do that, and we are located in an extremely wealty part of town. I think the shop is charging 95 an hour now for customer pay jobs. I know a **** load of techs as well, I have 20 plus in my class, and I work with another 50-60, so you can sit there and argue with me all you want, but I know first hand what people make at my dealership, and what people make coming out of the program I'm in. I may not make 80k my first year, thats fine, I'll take the 50-60k average, it's still a **** load more than I've ever made before, and will only go up with the more training and first hand experience I get.

 

My nephew has every ASE certification you can get and all he works on is BMW, Mercedes & Porches and he makes 20$ an hour. I find it hard to believe an owner of a dealership is going to pay 80 to 100k a year. I know a guy that owns several dealerships and there's no way he pays that much. Most of the guys that own dealerships are pretty tight with a buck and make most of the money in the parts department.

 

Don't forget that different parts of the country pay differently based on cost of living. And 30k a year for someone single like me is decent money, it's not great or anything, but enough to pay the bills, save, and have some fun. 45k would be great. But from what I have heard most mechanics make what, 20-30 an hour? So gross wages would be between 40k and 65k a year, take a chunk out of that so Uncle Sam can have his share. 80k is a high estimate, unless you live in Beverly Hills or something...

 

Yes Mechanics do make some of the largest Hourly wages I've seen... pretty damn much...