Re: Training
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No. I apologize for getting so upset and ranting. I don't want to be a part of the problem, but part of the solution. However, I'm tired of it all, and want to escape prepress. So what's been building up for years comes out. To think that someone can get paid $15 to start, and I've been in this industry as prepress since 95 and get paid $19.25 (after having been paid $23.06) is like hitting me below the belt. It hurts and also makes me mad. Oh well, even more reason to persist in my studies of my new career I've been planning to go to from here, and let this one die on the vine without me."
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Sorry didnt mean to upset anyone.
I wasnt aware that was a good starting rate for Prepress... ( or should I say someone who has went to college and didnt learn Illustrator and PS and Quark in the basement on weekends)
I really believed my college and the professors when they said your going to start at 19-20$. full time... *ha*
Even if you look online at what Desktop Publishers make per hr / starting wage its on average 20$. ( I chose desktop publish. because apparently prepress doesnt exist )
I mean ..people can walk in off the street and feed the press ( theyve hired a few such ppl) and they make just under what I do.. thats what gets me steamed. I had to go to college and pay for it from my $8 an hr part time job and goddamnit I want some of that back
Most smaller businesses offer 8-10$ and usually u wont make any more then that. Alot of business card and letterhead printing.. nothing anyone who had even an mild hobby towards Graphics and Graphic programs couldnt manage.
Larger companies offer 12-22$ ( the gap being so large because, well....... why pay 22 when you can get away with 12.. Period)
(22 being my educated guess on what the Lead Hand makes)
The platemaker / ex film stripper also makes just under that .. as they told me that film strippers a) used to be in demand B) got paid well since u were bent over a light table all the time..and since they cant deduct his wage he now gets paid to be IMO. a quality component, making sure our work is spec on the ctp plate.
Again this is all Canadian... and my experience within 1 company.
Alot of Wage talk. I should drop the subject as its touchy to all.
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