Video 1 Transcript
If you are looking to become an electrician, there's a couple of different ways to do it. One way is to join with the union, the IBEW, and you would go through the JATC, Joint Apprenticeship Training Program. And so if you go through the JATC, it's tied with the union, so you would work for a union contractor as an apprentice, and that's a four or five year program depending on the area. And in that you start out approximately 50% of the wage. And so in the Kansas City area, that's about $50 an hour. And so you start out, I'm guessing around $25 an hour. And so like in Utah or some of the other places, you're looking upper 30s, low 40s, general. And so same kind of thing. You would start out about 50% and work up every six months, every time you go through a certain amount of schooling or a certain amount hours on the job. So as an apprentice in the union, you would make more money based on your schooling and your time. And now there's an independent program that's real similar to that, only the schooling isn't set by a national committee to decide what's in the schooling. And it was more, like I say, independent. And that would be non-union, some people call it merit shops, where you would still do the same thing, get your hours and your time and your schooling and get a state license or it's equivalent. And you would work with a contractor who isn't signatory to the union. So both options are a way to get there. And both work similar.