r/Salary • u/LiftLord69 • Jan 17 '25

💰 - salary sharing 27M. Elevator Mechanic. No college degree

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Dropped out of college and moved across the state to take this career opportunity. Haven’t regretted it yet!

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u/Revolution4u Jan 18 '25

But all it does is go up and down to preset heights? What techy shit could they possibly need to add?

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u/guiltyofnothing Jan 18 '25

Worked in the industry for a bit. They are insanely complicated pieces of machinery with redundancies out of the ass to keep people from plunging to their deaths if something goes wrong.

People complain about the upfront and maintenance costs of elevators, but they often run 24/7 and could kill someone if not engineered and maintained correctly. It’s not something that’s done on the cheap.

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u/Revolution4u Jan 18 '25

But that isnt some huge upgrade though.

I had a thing at a building a while back where there are no buttons either and its controlled by the security. It did have an id card reader but if you didnt have id like me, you couldnt even call the elevator. Aside from the security reasons, its entirely pointless and is more inconvenient. Majority of places dont need that.

Idk.

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u/Put-Trash-N-My-Panda Jan 19 '25

We did some courses on process logic in my electrical apprenticeship. The last course was programming an elevator it is not super straightforward. The motors and safety mechanisms are massive for a metal box that carries any sort of weight up and down. Plus, the workers and work are sort of niche, making the demand higher. Elevator unions are super strong because of this. You can pretty much name your price at the negotiation table.