Im a lube/tire tech at a Ford/Chrysler dealership. I started at $15 an hour back in December with no experience. This morning my new service manager said we are going to sit down next week with the owner and get my pay rate adjusted because I’m worth a lot more than $15! It really comes down to your work ethic, and your drive to learn! Sadly those traits are really hard to find in most young people nowadays!
I started as a tech at Walmart 5 months ago making $15 an hour at 18 years old full-time with benefits not to bad compared to what most of my friends are making at fast food restaurants.
Justin Dow I graduated from an Auto Body program and I haven’t had any luck with shops that are willing to train Technicians it sucks that they rely on journey man technicians and I might transition to a lube tech or automotive.
I worked at firestone for three years. Its a great place to start and i did alot of diagnostic and service work there. They definitely have better benefits than the independent shop im at now. The downside is they're open 7days a week 7am - 7pm. Were now im off Saturday and Sunday and off by 5 most days.
I worked for Mazda as a lube and tire tech for three years. I eventually earned a decent check but I didn't start out making $15/hr plus commission. I got to keep most of my money because I didn't blow it all on the tool truck.
If it was possible to make $50/hour ($100k annually) plus benefits changing tires, I wasted my money paying for my daughter's PhD in clinical psychology.
The thing about automotive is that you don't have to stay doing one thing. You can move up, get your certs, and start making real money. There are some master/lead technicians that are literally pulling in well over 100k. This just shows that people sleep on blue collar work. Skilled tradesmen with the right certs and experience can make very good money, especially after OT.
No you can't. This is about basic mechanic skills that you can have. The guys I know that do this may beat minimum wage, that is it. $50 an hour, I serious doubt that dude's story.
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I started at Walmart making $11.25 an hour with military experience and tech school that I went to about 15 years ago. They quickly (within a couple of month) bumped me up to $15/hour. I was promoted to Shop manager in about 4 months. I think that if you start off at an entry level position you have to work hard to move up the ladder. What's where you can really start to make a decent living.
31 as of yesterday. I have grown herb for the last 12 years In Northern Cali, now that most the farms (including my own) have gone under I was forced to find new employment. I'm at a 60+ year old shop tire shop now. Huge dip in pay but the guys I work with are great and hopefully they recognize that I bring it everyday. 15 an hour Monday thru Friday and half a day on Saturday. My neighbor has been there for 25 years and said he got a 10k cash bonus for Xmas this year. I don't expect that in any way haha, but they do take care of their people. It's just been a massive adjustment for me I was my own boss all of those years.
I started off just working on trucks when they were broken no training that's cool just helping a friend that was certified and then we ended up advertising on the internet start a road service company so 10 years later fix the whole lot of other stuff then I opened up my own shop
I work for Les Schwab tire center, I don't do much on the tire side of thing but mainly all the brake, alignment, steering and suspension. Including subframes, lift and lower kits, pretty much you name it when it comes to that type of stuff. I make about 17hr. And they make u out at 20.50hr until or if you promote. We get a pretty big yearly bonus and a yearly dividend. The company is great with their employees providing free retirement that changes as the more you make, great medical dental and vision benefits along with 2 weeks vacation, two floating holidays, paid holidays off and sick time. They even helped with me going back home to Sacramento when my mom passed away and then a few months later helped again with my grandmother passed. Overall it's a great place for a career if your willing to up and relocate in order to promote. Their are a lot of BS but every job has its ups and down.
I work at a busy quick lube location, we don't do tires. Last year I made just over $65,000 this year i'm on pace for $70,000, the lowest paid employee last year made just under $40,000. We receive full benefits after 3 months.
my son started at bob sumerel tire as a lube tire tech and was making 11.50 hr plus full benefits. he now makes 14.50 hr plus full benefits at subaru but the tire lube shop offered to match it if he would of stayed.
I work at a small independent used tire shop in Ohio. We also do bigger jobs but I’m mainly the lube/tire guy. I don’t make anything close to 20 or 50 an hour
Currently working for a privately owned hyundai dealership, $14 an hour starting, 10% commissions on sold recommendations, full benefits, 5 days paid vacation after 6 months and 5 more after the first year. And the owner pays $150 a month towards my car note if i were to get a new car off the lot.
I worked at a tire shop in Tennessee. It was owned by firestone . I usually made from 1119.00 to 1029 a week but I was making 17.50 and working 60 hour weeks . I moved to Miami which is a bigger city . My first lube tech job out here was at jiffy lube (honestly I just needed a job . I got kids ) and the pay was $15 an hour and only about 8-10 hours of over time and they paid bi weekly . I’m at hertz now and one thing I can say is the benefits and we’re unionized and I have all the overtime I want . So I’m my personal experiences it varies by employer. But one thing is for sure is you gotta like this field .
Before I started my Career, I Worked at Wal-Mart in the Tire Lube Express. (TLE) Started $7.25 an hour busting my ass. Then they told me to join the Safety Committee. I thought I was getting a bonus. At the end of my service there, $7.35 an hour! LMAO!!!! Smh... Anyways that was in 99-2000. I'm a Dealership Technician now, EXPERT, going to be a Master hopefully soon. Sending my Oldest to College! Cheers Justin!
Flat rate Lexus tech here at $30/Hr and flagging an average of 52-57 hours a week. Started as a lube tech at the Lexus dealer and got moved up to flat rate after 5 months as a lubie. Been flat rate for about 2 years now and loving it. And I only got 1 ASE lol. Probably end at around $37-40/Hr after I get around to getting all the ASE's. Dealerships are where the REAL money is as a tech. That or heavy duty/semi-truck techs. Lube/Tire techs are capped at around $18-20/Hr.
I just got hired at AAA care care and I’m going to be at 13.50/hr. I don’t feel like this is GREAT money considering I made a lot more in the Air Force. However I do feel like it will be a great place to start off if I want to get into a high end manufacture program at UTI. hopefully leading to a greater money even doing oil changes. If anyone has any experience with manufacturers programs please reply
Worked for a corporation that has several dealerships in Midwest. I was at their Nissan network store as lube tech worked for 1 dollar above minimum wage. It was a greedy corporation, hours were cut, they kept on hiring lot of people if shop is slow lot of people were sent home. Managnent was horrible, no advancement. I hated that job, got myself fired on purpose.
I’ve been working for Chevrolet as a lube technician for about 8 years, and I make pretty good money. Not $50 an hour, but benefits are great, and schedule is perfect.
I make good money, best company in the state. Started at 16 an hour and have a 3 dollar raise coming my way on January 10th. Plus benefits that I don't even have to pay for, and a 401k amongst other things. Great place to work. Great pay. But I want my own business
There's a guy here where I work he used to work at a Dodge dealership as a mechanic he spent a lot of money going to school the pay was low and now he is a Union custodian at a elementary school
I previously worked at “Express oil change and tire engineers”. I was on salary for 50k a year before I deployed. I’m not going back solely because they worked me HARD nonstop all day rarely got a lunch break and asked me to constantly drive and work at other locations, either drive there during the middle of the day or middle of the week and finish the week at another location.
Or be a diesel tech at Volvo or kenworth making anywhere from $25-$35hr or more depending on which state you’re in. Pay based on schooling and experience though. I’m at an independent fleet shop and make decent. 2 weeks paid vacation, 30hrs sick time and 20hrs personal time. I also get a pretty good quarterly bonus as well. Think I’ll stick around this place for awhile.
Working at a family owned Goodyear.So it’s not a corporate situation. They have 8 shops. I’m a L1 master tech - lead tech. 40 a labor hour with a 1300 a week guarantee. Average about 1500 to 1600 a week.
I was making 13 an hr at a tire shop only doing tires now I make 16 working at amco an I love my job at amco I'm no master Is mechanic but I now a lot of Basics and they have great benefits and great opportunity for races 1st 90 days they mump you up to 20 $ an hour after your probation.
One of the best bosses I had was the owner of the Goodyear franchise store I started out with. I worked for him a combined 8 years over 2 stints. Went to a Toyota dealer for a couple years in between. Money was OK for the time period. He wound up having a stroke and was bad off for quite awhile. I wound up leaving a few months before he passed. I also worked for AAA for 5 years also as they own several shops where I’m at. The money was about the same as the Goodyear store. Health insurance was average. For a non profit company they were very stingy with raises 1-2% a year and they paid the tow truck drivers poorly. They would say we provide you insurance as part of your compensation that the employee paid about half for. I went back to the dealer world after the auto club and make about twice the money. It all comes down to finding a good employer.
I've worked a few of those jobs in Ohio , usually minimum wage and benefits sucked . One place had no benefits but was a small family company. Personal opinion you can't make enough to live and they suck for the most part. It'd be okay for someone just out of high school to learn the basics but it wouldn't be anything I'd suggest to make a career out of. That's just my two cents maybe others have had better experience with these places but I never have.
When I worked at Kia I made better money as a GST then I did in mainline. If a dealership offers bonuses to their lube techs for up sales they can do as good or better then the mainline techs. Now I'm making 24hr during the busy summer months I was always making equivalent to 24-30 dollars an hour. I was also a lube tech at Midas making about $3-4000 same as I am now as a heavy duty tech at Acura. Only difference is I had to bust my ass to get that, now I'm hourly and it's all warranty so times can't be beaten
I started out at Sears making $13 or 14 an hour and averaged $18.50 after a year there. You could easily make $30 an hour if you got paid right for all the work you do. Service advisors cut the labor all the time and they make the best techs take all the unpaid come backs. Benefits were good. I think we started with 2 weeks vacation plus 6 days sick leave. They did offer paid holidays or time and a half if you worked them but it was so slow you would have made more staying home. Also they don't give raises to anyone.
I worked for Les Schwab for a number of years. Pay is not great by any means, but the benefits are great. The Managers make exponetially more than a sales and service, which I feel is a huge down fall. For example I made 45,000 a year as a top wage employee including profit shares. The manager of my store made 6-8 times that depending on the year. One of the last meetings I attended, the owners were offering employees a payment for getting people to come work there. They also offered a cash incentive for coming back after a layoff, take that for what you will. They have profit sharing depending on the years you have worked there up to 3 shares. It is a faced paced environment that gets a good amount of business. There are alot of politics on the ground level as with most larger chain stores. Would I recommend working there? Yes, but just to get your feet wet in the automotive industry, Unless you want go into management.
One thing about trade jobs in California which i think you've mentioned before. According to wage order No. 4. If you provide and maintain your own tools required to perform your duties not provided by the employer. The employer must pay you to at least 2x California minimum wage (currently $11.00 an hour = $22.00 an hour) This tier applies for employers with less than 25 employees. For employers for more than 26 employees (ie. large chains), the California minimum wage is $12.00 thus $24.00. Most oil change places and quick lubes at dealerships and wheel/tire places get around this by providing the tools needed. www.dir.ca.gov/letf/Automotive_Employer_Brochure.pdf
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Doing commercial tires you can do that , but not sears only way you make money doing tires at sears is you have to do 4 tires and alignment like 10 times a day I use to work at sears auto, in Alexandria,VA
Work at Costco Tire Center, no lube no batteries just tires. Start at 15/hr top out is 26/hr. Supervisor makes around 60k with bonus manger makes around 75k with bonus. It has made it hard to move up in the industry cause it would be a huge pay cut to start back at bottom. Costco really takes care of employees with benefits hard to find that pay and work culture.
In the area where I'm from everybody just wants to have their own shop not for everybody obviously but I've seen that as being most people's long-term goal at least in my area that being North Texas
As far as people becoming mechanics you know the area that you go into maybe really easy and certain places and then some areas may be a little bit harder or a lot harder to find a good job but I know for instance like in South Texas now mechanics are in just such high demand from everybody breaking all those oilfield trucks
Good starting point like you said, but if you're going to be serious about it as a career, then the INDY shops are where the money and experience are 😉 Not saying that there are not great techs working in retail, just will never get beyond a certain point in the bigger picture of the business.
Quick lube tire shops are the best way to start because most of them provide tools so you don’t have to sink money into tool right away and you can get a feel for what the industry is. But not a place you can make real money at you cap out after awhile tho it’s easy work it’s not going pay well.
Mavis discount tire. "mechanic" there. 15/hour. Spiffs on all non service work so like .25 cents a tire .25 c a balance .50 for toms kit so basically a dollar a tire. 4$ alignment. Pa inspections gimme 8$ a piece. Service work has a quota. You don't hit the quota it's 1% on everything. Hit the quota and it's 10% commission on everything after the quota. So in a week where I do a bunch of inspections where I hit a solid amount of service work I can see 1000 or more in a week after taxes. An average week after taxes I see between 7-850. suburbs of Philly so cost of living ain't to bad. It's definitely more than livable. All depends on the guy managing the shop though if he'll go to bat for you to get you raises if he'll let you step outside what "the company" wants us to focus on. If I had a by the book shit manager I wouldn't be working there cause I wouldn't be making a livable wage.
I recently started at a local lube tire shop I have 30 plus years experience as an automotive tech they have a full technician staff but one guy is leaving in 8 weeks so I'm doing lube tech for 8 weeks but move up when he leaves and I'm making 22 hour plus spiff
Firestone lube tech is $10 a hour. C level 13-15 flat rate a hour level 15-18 flat rate and A tech is 18-25 a hour flat rate. The benefits sucks. But it was a good experience. I work with some great people. But that’s about it.
I start @ Schwab’s tomorrow. I’m hyped. I worked at a dealership previously as a service porter. Im tired of all the cleaning and all the bitch work. My theory is I want to matter to people. Working on cars having a clean bay.
My uncle work for a Firestone tire centers for 30 years for 27 of them he was a store manager and he told me as store manager he bring before bonuses 4000 month he worked at firestone full service auto center and he retired from firestone
Gotta call bull on that $20 and $50 an hour. I worked at Walmart for $11.50 an hour and I'm about to start at Firestone for $12 an hour, but the opportunities to grow and get certified are awesome at Firestone. The guys I worked with at Walmart are a awesome group of professional guys to work with but working for Walmart period is a nightmare. They told me I was full time and when I first started and i was, but after 2 months (coming to the end of the year) they start cutting EVERYONES hours. They'd work people 4 hour shifts and send them home when we were busy. From my understanding Walmart does that every year starting in November and they don't start scheduling 40 hours a week again until March and the reason why is because the store manager gets a bonus and that's judged on I guess the left over payroll..? But if you work at Walmart and plan on moving up to be a auto tech start working on getting your tools and finding another company to go work for.
I work 10 minutes away, 18 an hour and pretty much the bitch of the shop but the owner is cool and is the head mechanic so i do oil tires and other odd jobs i can handle. I love it all at that place.
Had the opportunity to work at a Firestone but turned it down for a dealer position. But dang 50 and hour that's alot but proab with commission and only turn 3 or 4 hours if that's how he got paid.
Good vid Justin especially for those folks starting out in the auto tech field. I know here in Vermont the starting min wage is $10.78 hr depending on experience. I bring my vehicles to a local independent father and son owned garage and they do satisfactory work at a good market price but rape you on part costs, lol. I'm curious how JFW is making out on his first day at Ford. I'm sure he'll let us all know soon enough. Cheers mate!!
I make 150 every day cash working at a used tire store. I could make more depending on how many mechanic jobs I do. My pay breaks down to bout 30-40 per hour.
In my experience lube tech at firestone is the best way to growing up, $15 /hr + a lot trainings in CA, nissan lube tech $13/hr, valvoline $15.80/hr is the better pay but you never get anything else 🤷♂️
i got hired at benj brake and tire pay is 16hr up to 17hr in 90 days, I got health benfits (if I want) and dental I am just starting and a lube tech tho, you can check my toolbox vid on my channel if you can let me know what tools I need
Is it a good choice to start as far getting your ase ? I do have a offer at tire kingdom and Toyota . I'm thinking it'll be a better choice to start a dealership but I'm not sure . I have little to none mechanic experience
Man there’s no way that man made $50 an hour doing tires. I work in a shop now making 12.75 and I’ve worked at dealerships that pay by car, never have I ever made anywhere close to even 25 an hour
My store manager has a base salary of 90k yearly. Every three months he gets a quarterly bonus. Well his bonuses are 40k a piece and last year he received 4 of those. Shocked me discount tire payes him that much. Too be honest it was hard to believe til he showed me the proof.
Yeah, they'll hire you right off the street. Also, try and get in to a full service shop (one that does brakes and medium mechanic work) since I believe you can use that as experience for your ASE certs.
@Peter Belford nah bro like I am asking can I work in these types of shop in which do oil change,tire change and basic thing without owning a driving license??
@Peter Belford bro like I am asking can I work in these types of shop in which do oil change,tire change and basic thing without owning a driving license??
$15.00/hr, however you can get some good bonuses if you are busting your ass and what not. Mr.lube for the most part is a good gig if your fresh out of highschool looking for a good job that keeps you busy, all depends on the store, manager, and staff though!
Lol benefits I work at an independent shop every year you get a week of PTO so first year you get a week second year two weeks etc etc I'm a C tech and making peanuts but I like being at an indie shop I see many makes and models and get a general knowledge of almost all makes but being at an independent we're short-staffed so I take the role of both tech and service writer
Wow 50 an hour iv personally never heard of that. Thats a first for me now i do know of some tire guys making 100 k a year in my area but these guys change mainly tractor trailer tires they do road services on tires on heavy equipment as well like construction equipment and change them 800 plus pound tires now those guys YES they do make over 100 k a year but there also mainly on the road but the whole automotive thing with discount tires and fire stone wow congrats if it is true but iv know guys there only making slightly over minimum wage but more power if it is true.
Both have goods and bad honestly i feel you arent a number at a small shop but usually its run their way which could be half ass backwards keeping you from making money and corporate stores talks about training and moving up but its more like going on a computer watching these stupid lessons and taking a test on them at the end they want you to stay busy so you clean organize the tire warehouse but never get to shadow a tech so you can learn the things that will make you money idk never worked at a dealership heard bad and good things about them but to start off i would definitely say a corporate store like goodyear or something along those lines as a first place or a quick lube shop
I made $20 flat rate at Pep Boys and could have made good money, but the problem was, rather than paying flat rate time, it was $3.50 per oil change, per tire, per rotate $5.00 for bulbs, etc and then the only diag time Paid was for engine performance that not only went to strictly the master techs, but if they bought the service diag was free. So you could spend an hour diagnosing and replacing a MAF sensor and end up with like .3
Lube tire guys on the line don't make $50/hr. Doesn't happen. What was described with the Walmart gig sounds like a 401k and not a stock option. A stock option grants you rights to buy stock at a set price. There is no guarantee it will appreciate or that you won't get hit with a big tax bill. A 401k you contribute money to an investment account and the employer matches a percentage of it up to all of it as long as you contribute some minimum set amount. When you leave you take that investment with you plus whatever you made from it. Unless the market tanks like in 2008 and wipes it all out.
Well I been but they always under pay like I was getting paid 12 an hour and also no benefits at all where I'm at I'm tired of getting fucked over I have over 10 year of expenses
I'm basically at were you began so pretty much you know the establishment or the company and you know getting payed by the hr in order to prosper when only making but so much you half to be mindful to your circumstance and have vision in order to increase your wage and worth on your own at the same time as a employee so my thought on the matter is and Solution to it all is that I began to multi task jobs according to how many bays or lifts are available that are not being occupied by other techs so with in that hr that someone may be just working on one car I may be working on 2 or 3 at the same exact time especially depending upon what the vehicle came in for instead of doing one after another because you gotta be mindful because remember you are being payed by the hr if you are not a flat rate so to give a example if there is 2 vehicles that are in for 4 tires a piece and 1 other for a oil change I'd line all 3 vehicles side by side now no real money is being made by the oil change but that's not to say that's exactly true according to your evaluation of what the car could use in the process and the other 2 cars are the focus because they are getting the same job so it makes things even easier and quicker according to how you pace yourself so now you figure those 3cars plus your hourly salary that's about 27 a hr but the oil change could make it even more according to how Fast you are to inspect you know SNAP Shot View like i said you gotta be mindful to what you want to make not what someone is just offering you once the work is done depending upon were you at they half to pay you now a independent shop that maybe different
Made shit at a tire shop minimum wage and worked my ass off 11 hrs, no benefits because he wouldn't give them to me and we did over 100 a day now I'm an apprentice at a dealer making good money fuck that shit (p.s they paid a guy there for 15 years minimum wage not a good employer)
He's lying bro no way 50 a HR .or even 26 a HR no fuckin way .im in Wisconsin and ur lucky to get 15.00 hr with crap benefits .i swear man no independent shops are where ur gonna get what u are worth and what u know
Im a lube/tire tech at a Ford/Chrysler dealership. I started at $15 an hour back in December with no experience. This morning my new service manager said we are going to sit down next week with the owner and get my pay rate adjusted because I’m worth a lot more than $15! It really comes down to your work ethic, and your drive to learn! Sadly those traits are really hard to find in most young people nowadays!
I started as a tech at Walmart 5 months ago making $15 an hour at 18 years old full-time with benefits not to bad compared to what most of my friends are making at fast food restaurants.
Not to bad at all. Rocking Roll Brotherman. Glad to hear your doing well at such a young age. Cheers!
I’m at Sam’s club tire Technician making 15 an hour too. 19 tho
Justin Dow I graduated from an Auto Body program and I haven’t had any luck with shops that are willing to train Technicians it sucks that they rely on journey man technicians and I might transition to a lube tech or automotive.
What state you live in?
Here in cali U can make like $18 an hour for flippin burgers at in n out
$50 an hour as a tire tire tech. I call bullshit. Especially since he was leaving to make half that pay. Sounds like a potato to me
I started as a lube tech, was at a Toyota dealer for about 2 months. Leaving there was one of my best choices
evan keyes why
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I actually applied to them so I can work my way up to the shop starting off as a lube tech .
I worked at firestone for three years. Its a great place to start and i did alot of diagnostic and service work there. They definitely have better benefits than the independent shop im at now. The downside is they're open 7days a week 7am - 7pm. Were now im off Saturday and Sunday and off by 5 most days.
I worked for Mazda as a lube and tire tech for three years. I eventually earned a decent check but I didn't start out making $15/hr plus commission. I got to keep most of my money because I didn't blow it all on the tool truck.
If it was possible to make $50/hour ($100k annually) plus benefits changing tires, I wasted my money paying for my daughter's PhD in clinical psychology.
Plumber 50 per, yes maybe, lube tech not so much
Lmao yeah she should have been a tire technician
The thing about automotive is that you don't have to stay doing one thing. You can move up, get your certs, and start making real money. There are some master/lead technicians that are literally pulling in well over 100k. This just shows that people sleep on blue collar work. Skilled tradesmen with the right certs and experience can make very good money, especially after OT.
No you can't. This is about basic mechanic skills that you can have. The guys I know that do this may beat minimum wage, that is it. $50 an hour, I serious doubt that dude's story.
Bro,I can work in theses shops without driving license
How much do you think they make per month?
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I started at Walmart making $11.25 an hour with military experience and tech school that I went to about 15 years ago. They quickly (within a couple of month) bumped me up to $15/hour. I was promoted to Shop manager in about 4 months. I think that if you start off at an entry level position you have to work hard to move up the ladder. What's where you can really start to make a decent living.
31 as of yesterday. I have grown herb for the last 12 years In Northern Cali, now that most the farms (including my own) have gone under I was forced to find new employment. I'm at a 60+ year old shop tire shop now. Huge dip in pay but the guys I work with are great and hopefully they recognize that I bring it everyday. 15 an hour Monday thru Friday and half a day on Saturday. My neighbor has been there for 25 years and said he got a 10k cash bonus for Xmas this year. I don't expect that in any way haha, but they do take care of their people. It's just been a massive adjustment for me I was my own boss all of those years.
I started off just working on trucks when they were broken no training that's cool just helping a friend that was certified and then we ended up advertising on the internet start a road service company so 10 years later fix the whole lot of other stuff then I opened up my own shop
I work for Les Schwab tire center, I don't do much on the tire side of thing but mainly all the brake, alignment, steering and suspension. Including subframes, lift and lower kits, pretty much you name it when it comes to that type of stuff. I make about 17hr. And they make u out at 20.50hr until or if you promote. We get a pretty big yearly bonus and a yearly dividend. The company is great with their employees providing free retirement that changes as the more you make, great medical dental and vision benefits along with 2 weeks vacation, two floating holidays, paid holidays off and sick time. They even helped with me going back home to Sacramento when my mom passed away and then a few months later helped again with my grandmother passed. Overall it's a great place for a career if your willing to up and relocate in order to promote. Their are a lot of BS but every job has its ups and down.
They max* you out at $20.50 an hour until and if you're* promoted.
There* is* a lot
I work at a busy quick lube location, we don't do tires. Last year I made just over $65,000 this year i'm on pace for $70,000, the lowest paid employee last year made just under $40,000. We receive full benefits after 3 months.
my son started at bob sumerel tire as a lube tire tech and was making 11.50 hr plus full benefits. he now makes 14.50 hr plus full benefits at subaru but the tire lube shop offered to match it if he would of stayed.
I work at a small independent used tire shop in Ohio. We also do bigger jobs but I’m mainly the lube/tire guy. I don’t make anything close to 20 or 50 an hour
Bro,I can work in theses shops without driving license
Currently working for a privately owned hyundai dealership, $14 an hour starting, 10% commissions on sold recommendations, full benefits, 5 days paid vacation after 6 months and 5 more after the first year. And the owner pays $150 a month towards my car note if i were to get a new car off the lot.
Its good your talking about finances and retirement!
I worked at a tire shop in Tennessee. It was owned by firestone . I usually made from 1119.00 to 1029 a week but I was making 17.50 and working 60 hour weeks . I moved to Miami which is a bigger city . My first lube tech job out here was at jiffy lube (honestly I just needed a job . I got kids ) and the pay was $15 an hour and only about 8-10 hours of over time and they paid bi weekly . I’m at hertz now and one thing I can say is the benefits and we’re unionized and I have all the overtime I want . So I’m my personal experiences it varies by employer. But one thing is for sure is you gotta like this field .
Before I started my Career, I Worked at Wal-Mart in the Tire Lube Express. (TLE) Started $7.25 an hour busting my ass. Then they told me to join the Safety Committee. I thought I was getting a bonus. At the end of my service there, $7.35 an hour! LMAO!!!! Smh... Anyways that was in 99-2000. I'm a Dealership Technician now, EXPERT, going to be a Master hopefully soon. Sending my Oldest to College! Cheers Justin!
Cheers! I'm glad your on to bigger and better things!
50 dollars an hour to do tires? That doesn't seem right lol.
I wouldn't do it for any less
@@kevinc9006 good luck with that
@@kevinc9006 lol did you find a shop that pay 50$ for lube tire tech yet?
@@abdulalmadi2210 guess that's why I do industrial maintenance 😜
@@kevinc9006 well good job... Here in buffalo ny mechanic average pay is like 20$/hour.
the right way to start a video^
Flat rate Lexus tech here at $30/Hr and flagging an average of 52-57 hours a week. Started as a lube tech at the Lexus dealer and got moved up to flat rate after 5 months as a lubie. Been flat rate for about 2 years now and loving it. And I only got 1 ASE lol. Probably end at around $37-40/Hr after I get around to getting all the ASE's.
Dealerships are where the REAL money is as a tech. That or heavy duty/semi-truck techs. Lube/Tire techs are capped at around $18-20/Hr.
i make 15 flate rate hour and bring home about 1000 every 2 weeks as a ford lube tech
I just got hired at AAA care care and I’m going to be at 13.50/hr. I don’t feel like this is GREAT money considering I made a lot more in the Air Force. However I do feel like it will be a great place to start off if I want to get into a high end manufacture program at UTI. hopefully leading to a greater money even doing oil changes.
If anyone has any experience with manufacturers programs please reply
Bro,I can work in theses shops without driving license
Worked for a corporation that has several dealerships in Midwest. I was at their Nissan network store as lube tech worked for 1 dollar above minimum wage. It was a greedy corporation, hours were cut, they kept on hiring lot of people if shop is slow lot of people were sent home. Managnent was horrible, no advancement. I hated that job, got myself fired on purpose.
I’ve been working for Chevrolet as a lube technician for about 8 years, and I make pretty good money. Not $50 an hour, but benefits are great, and schedule is perfect.
Bro,I can work in theses shops without driving license
I make good money, best company in the state. Started at 16 an hour and have a 3 dollar raise coming my way on January 10th. Plus benefits that I don't even have to pay for, and a 401k amongst other things. Great place to work. Great pay.
But I want my own business
There's a guy here where I work he used to work at a Dodge dealership as a mechanic he spent a lot of money going to school the pay was low and now he is a Union custodian at a elementary school
Ey as long as he has food on his table and a roof over his head it's great
I previously worked at “Express oil change and tire engineers”. I was on salary for 50k a year before I deployed. I’m not going back solely because they worked me HARD nonstop all day rarely got a lunch break and asked me to constantly drive and work at other locations, either drive there during the middle of the day or middle of the week and finish the week at another location.
Or be a diesel tech at Volvo or kenworth making anywhere from $25-$35hr or more depending on which state you’re in. Pay based on schooling and experience though. I’m at an independent fleet shop and make decent. 2 weeks paid vacation, 30hrs sick time and 20hrs personal time. I also get a pretty good quarterly bonus as well. Think I’ll stick around this place for awhile.
What do you do? Basic repairs like oil changes and tires or more advanced work?
Working at a family owned Goodyear.So it’s not a corporate situation. They have 8 shops. I’m a L1 master tech - lead tech. 40 a labor hour with a 1300 a week guarantee.
Average about 1500 to 1600 a week.
I was making 13 an hr at a tire shop only doing tires now I make 16 working at amco an I love my job at amco I'm no master Is mechanic but I now a lot of Basics and they have great benefits and great opportunity for races 1st 90 days they mump you up to 20 $ an hour after your probation.
One of the best bosses I had was the owner of the Goodyear franchise store I started out with. I worked for him a combined 8 years over 2 stints. Went to a Toyota dealer for a couple years in between. Money was OK for the time period. He wound up having a stroke and was bad off for quite awhile. I wound up leaving a few months before he passed. I also worked for AAA for 5 years also as they own several shops where I’m at. The money was about the same as the Goodyear store. Health insurance was average. For a non profit company they were very stingy with raises 1-2% a year and they paid the tow truck drivers poorly. They would say we provide you insurance as part of your compensation that the employee paid about half for. I went back to the dealer world after the auto club and make about twice the money. It all comes down to finding a good employer.
I've worked a few of those jobs in Ohio , usually minimum wage and benefits sucked . One place had no benefits but was a small family company. Personal opinion you can't make enough to live and they suck for the most part. It'd be okay for someone just out of high school to learn the basics but it wouldn't be anything I'd suggest to make a career out of. That's just my two cents maybe others have had better experience with these places but I never have.
When I worked at Kia I made better money as a GST then I did in mainline. If a dealership offers bonuses to their lube techs for up sales they can do as good or better then the mainline techs. Now I'm making 24hr during the busy summer months I was always making equivalent to 24-30 dollars an hour. I was also a lube tech at Midas making about $3-4000 same as I am now as a heavy duty tech at Acura. Only difference is I had to bust my ass to get that, now I'm hourly and it's all warranty so times can't be beaten
I started out at Sears making $13 or 14 an hour and averaged $18.50 after a year there. You could easily make $30 an hour if you got paid right for all the work you do. Service advisors cut the labor all the time and they make the best techs take all the unpaid come backs. Benefits were good. I think we started with 2 weeks vacation plus 6 days sick leave. They did offer paid holidays or time and a half if you worked them but it was so slow you would have made more staying home. Also they don't give raises to anyone.
I am a honda lube tech and the more cars we flag the more bonus money we will get a month and move up on the list
I worked for Les Schwab for a number of years. Pay is not great by any means, but the benefits are great. The Managers make exponetially more than a sales and service, which I feel is a huge down fall. For example I made 45,000 a year as a top wage employee including profit shares. The manager of my store made 6-8 times that depending on the year. One of the last meetings I attended, the owners were offering employees a payment for getting people to come work there. They also offered a cash incentive for coming back after a layoff, take that for what you will. They have profit sharing depending on the years you have worked there up to 3 shares. It is a faced paced environment that gets a good amount of business. There are alot of politics on the ground level as with most larger chain stores. Would I recommend working there? Yes, but just to get your feet wet in the automotive industry, Unless you want go into management.
Thanks Brotherman. I really appreciate all the detail you shared here. I know it's going to help someone. Thanks again and cheers!
I just started at big O tires at 22
One thing about trade jobs in California which i think you've mentioned before. According to wage order No. 4. If you provide and maintain your own tools required to perform your duties not provided by the employer. The employer must pay you to at least 2x California minimum wage (currently $11.00 an hour = $22.00 an hour) This tier applies for employers with less than 25 employees. For employers for more than 26 employees (ie. large chains), the California minimum wage is $12.00 thus $24.00. Most oil change places and quick lubes at dealerships and wheel/tire places get around this by providing the tools needed. www.dir.ca.gov/letf/Automotive_Employer_Brochure.pdf
Doing commercial tires you can do that , but not sears only way you make money doing tires at sears is you have to do 4 tires and alignment like 10 times a day I use to work at sears auto, in Alexandria,VA
My dad was a manager at discount tire and big o for over 20 years
Work at Costco Tire Center, no lube no batteries just tires. Start at 15/hr top out is 26/hr. Supervisor makes around 60k with bonus manger makes around 75k with bonus. It has made it hard to move up in the industry cause it would be a huge pay cut to start back at bottom. Costco really takes care of employees with benefits hard to find that pay and work culture.
Are you able to get raises pretty easily?
@@infamouz111 raises are based off hours you work
In the area where I'm from everybody just wants to have their own shop not for everybody obviously but I've seen that as being most people's long-term goal at least in my area that being North Texas
david pennington hell yeah! I’m from Wichita Falls
As far as people becoming mechanics you know the area that you go into maybe really easy and certain places and then some areas may be a little bit harder or a lot harder to find a good job but I know for instance like in South Texas now mechanics are in just such high demand from everybody breaking all those oilfield trucks
I like to work for mom and pop shop if you take car of them and will take care of you
Not all of them I been but they fuck u over
just started at a legit mom and pop shop, check out my tool cart vid on my channel
Good starting point like you said, but if you're going to be serious about it as a career, then the INDY shops are where the money and experience are 😉
Not saying that there are not great techs working in retail, just will never get beyond a certain point in the bigger picture of the business.
Quick lube tire shops are the best way to start because most of them provide tools so you don’t have to sink money into tool right away and you can get a feel for what the industry is. But not a place you can make real money at you cap out after awhile tho it’s easy work it’s not going pay well.
Store manager easily make anywhere from 200k-400k a year at discount tire
Mavis discount tire. "mechanic" there. 15/hour. Spiffs on all non service work so like .25 cents a tire .25 c a balance .50 for toms kit so basically a dollar a tire. 4$ alignment. Pa inspections gimme 8$ a piece. Service work has a quota. You don't hit the quota it's 1% on everything. Hit the quota and it's 10% commission on everything after the quota. So in a week where I do a bunch of inspections where I hit a solid amount of service work I can see 1000 or more in a week after taxes. An average week after taxes I see between 7-850. suburbs of Philly so cost of living ain't to bad. It's definitely more than livable. All depends on the guy managing the shop though if he'll go to bat for you to get you raises if he'll let you step outside what "the company" wants us to focus on. If I had a by the book shit manager I wouldn't be working there cause I wouldn't be making a livable wage.
I recently started at a local lube tire shop I have 30 plus years experience as an automotive tech they have a full technician staff but one guy is leaving in 8 weeks so I'm doing lube tech for 8 weeks but move up when he leaves and I'm making 22 hour plus spiff
Firestone lube tech is $10 a hour. C level 13-15 flat rate a hour level 15-18 flat rate and A tech is 18-25 a hour flat rate. The benefits sucks. But it was a good experience. I work with some great people. But that’s about it.
I work at a tire shop and are master tech makes 40 to 60 an hour im lucky to make 17 lol but getting closer every day
I start @ Schwab’s tomorrow. I’m hyped. I worked at a dealership previously as a service porter. Im tired of all the cleaning and all the bitch work. My theory is I want to matter to people. Working on cars having a clean bay.
My uncle work for a Firestone tire centers for 30 years for 27 of them he was a store manager and he told me as store manager he bring before bonuses 4000 month he worked at firestone full service auto center and he retired from firestone
Gotta call bull on that $20 and $50 an hour. I worked at Walmart for $11.50 an hour and I'm about to start at Firestone for $12 an hour, but the opportunities to grow and get certified are awesome at Firestone. The guys I worked with at Walmart are a awesome group of professional guys to work with but working for Walmart period is a nightmare. They told me I was full time and when I first started and i was, but after 2 months (coming to the end of the year) they start cutting EVERYONES hours. They'd work people 4 hour shifts and send them home when we were busy. From my understanding Walmart does that every year starting in November and they don't start scheduling 40 hours a week again until March and the reason why is because the store manager gets a bonus and that's judged on I guess the left over payroll..? But if you work at Walmart and plan on moving up to be a auto tech start working on getting your tools and finding another company to go work for.
I work 10 minutes away, 18 an hour and pretty much the bitch of the shop but the owner is cool and is the head mechanic so i do oil tires and other odd jobs i can handle. I love it all at that place.
Had the opportunity to work at a Firestone but turned it down for a dealer position. But dang 50 and hour that's alot but proab with commission and only turn 3 or 4 hours if that's how he got paid.
Good vid Justin especially for those folks starting out in the auto tech field. I know here in Vermont the starting min wage is $10.78 hr depending on experience. I bring my vehicles to a local independent father and son owned garage and they do satisfactory work at a good market price but rape you on part costs, lol. I'm curious how JFW is making out on his first day at Ford. I'm sure he'll let us all know soon enough. Cheers mate!!
I make 150 every day cash working at a used tire store. I could make more depending on how many mechanic jobs I do. My pay breaks down to bout 30-40 per hour.
Sounds like a part time position to me
In my experience lube tech at firestone is the best way to growing up, $15 /hr + a lot trainings in CA, nissan lube tech $13/hr, valvoline $15.80/hr is the better pay but you never get anything else 🤷♂️
As a Tech at DCT, the ceiling is $15hr. Nobody is making $50hr outside of upper management.
i got hired at benj brake and tire pay is 16hr up to 17hr in 90 days, I got health benfits (if I want) and dental I am just starting and a lube tech tho, you can check my toolbox vid on my channel if you can let me know what tools I need
Is it a good choice to start as far getting your ase ? I do have a offer at tire kingdom and Toyota . I'm thinking it'll be a better choice to start a dealership but I'm not sure . I have little to none mechanic experience
Man there’s no way that man made $50 an hour doing tires. I work in a shop now making 12.75 and I’ve worked at dealerships that pay by car, never have I ever made anywhere close to even 25 an hour
Les swab minimum wage starting off and only part time here but not sure about the other tire places
My store manager has a base salary of 90k yearly. Every three months he gets a quarterly bonus. Well his bonuses are 40k a piece and last year he received 4 of those. Shocked me discount tire payes him that much. Too be honest it was hard to believe til he showed me the proof.
If thats the case then every tech will work at a tire shop.
Can you be a lube tire tech with a mechanic certification? I thought of doing it as a part time job for extra money.
With out a mechanic certification
Yes you can.
Ok thank you
Yeah, they'll hire you right off the street. Also, try and get in to a full service shop (one that does brakes and medium mechanic work) since I believe you can use that as experience for your ASE certs.
I work at one of those lube and tire shops and I think I could make around $30 an hour if I was able to do 2 sets of tires in an hour
Bro,I can work in theses shops without driving license
@Peter Belford Bro,I can work in theses shops without driving license
@Peter Belford nah bro like I am asking can I work in these types of shop in which do oil change,tire change and basic thing without owning a driving license??
@Peter Belford bro like I am asking can I work in these types of shop in which do oil change,tire change and basic thing without owning a driving license??
I average +$25 up at a auto service center but ima try hard
50/hr to change tires....no way. Don't believe it for a second.
I always wondered if sears techs get better deals on tools
My son said a tire tech at a Honda dealer makes 8.00 a hr
Get y’all ase the best solution 💯 some ex coworkers at kia make 28$ hour as flat rate
$15.00/hr, however you can get some good bonuses if you are busting your ass and what not. Mr.lube for the most part is a good gig if your fresh out of highschool looking for a good job that keeps you busy, all depends on the store, manager, and staff though!
Lol benefits I work at an independent shop every year you get a week of PTO so first year you get a week second year two weeks etc etc I'm a C tech and making peanuts but I like being at an indie shop I see many makes and models and get a general knowledge of almost all makes but being at an independent we're short-staffed so I take the role of both tech and service writer
So after 52 years you get a whole year paid vacation 👍😎
Wow 50 an hour iv personally never heard of that. Thats a first for me now i do know of some tire guys making 100 k a year in my area but these guys change mainly tractor trailer tires they do road services on tires on heavy equipment as well like construction equipment and change them 800 plus pound tires now those guys YES they do make over 100 k a year but there also mainly on the road but the whole automotive thing with discount tires and fire stone wow congrats if it is true but iv know guys there only making slightly over minimum wage but more power if it is true.
Both have goods and bad honestly i feel you arent a number at a small shop but usually its run their way which could be half ass backwards keeping you from making money and corporate stores talks about training and moving up but its more like going on a computer watching these stupid lessons and taking a test on them at the end they want you to stay busy so you clean organize the tire warehouse but never get to shadow a tech so you can learn the things that will make you money idk never worked at a dealership heard bad and good things about them but to start off i would definitely say a corporate store like goodyear or something along those lines as a first place or a quick lube shop
I made $20 flat rate at Pep Boys and could have made good money, but the problem was, rather than paying flat rate time, it was $3.50 per oil change, per tire, per rotate $5.00 for bulbs, etc and then the only diag time Paid was for engine performance that not only went to strictly the master techs, but if they bought the service diag was free. So you could spend an hour diagnosing and replacing a MAF sensor and end up with like .3
Do you need to go to school to work at a Tire/ Lube shop? Do they expect you to have your own tools?
I work at Firestone as a Lube tech and you start at $14.00
Did you need to have experience to start?
Lube tire guys on the line don't make $50/hr. Doesn't happen. What was described with the Walmart gig sounds like a 401k and not a stock option. A stock option grants you rights to buy stock at a set price. There is no guarantee it will appreciate or that you won't get hit with a big tax bill. A 401k you contribute money to an investment account and the employer matches a percentage of it up to all of it as long as you contribute some minimum set amount. When you leave you take that investment with you plus whatever you made from it. Unless the market tanks like in 2008 and wipes it all out.
Think what he meant was he needed to do fifty tires an hour or else he’d need to find another job
Well I been but they always under pay like I was getting paid 12 an hour and also no benefits at all where I'm at I'm tired of getting fucked over I have over 10 year of expenses
I worked at a discount tire, no one got payed 50 hr
50 an hr for a splash and fill sign me up
I'm basically at were you began so pretty much you know the establishment or the company and you know getting payed by the hr in order to prosper when only making but so much you half to be mindful to your circumstance and have vision in order to increase your wage and worth on your own at the same time as a employee so my thought on the matter is and Solution to it all is that I began to multi task jobs according to how many bays or lifts are available that are not being occupied by other techs so with in that hr that someone may be just working on one car I may be working on 2 or 3 at the same exact time especially depending upon what the vehicle came in for instead of doing one after another because you gotta be mindful because remember you are being payed by the hr if you are not a flat rate so to give a example if there is 2 vehicles that are in for 4 tires a piece and 1 other for a oil change I'd line all 3 vehicles side by side now no real money is being made by the oil change but that's not to say that's exactly true according to your evaluation of what the car could use in the process and the other 2 cars are the focus because they are getting the same job so it makes things even easier and quicker according to how you pace yourself so now you figure those 3cars plus your hourly salary that's about 27 a hr but the oil change could make it even more according to how Fast you are to inspect you know SNAP Shot View like i said you gotta be mindful to what you want to make not what someone is just offering you once the work is done depending upon were you at they half to pay you now a independent shop that maybe different
Made shit at a tire shop minimum wage and worked my ass off 11 hrs, no benefits because he wouldn't give them to me and we did over 100 a day now I'm an apprentice at a dealer making good money fuck that shit (p.s they paid a guy there for 15 years minimum wage not a good employer)
Walmart is a shit place to work,treat people bad,pay,bad
Job shop body work good money
Walmart don't pay shit,Big o tires pays well.and lube shops here in Az Don't pay shit
minimum wage. the lowest amount legally possible
$50? An hour? Bullshit no fucking shot sorry senior techs at ford rn are banging $150K a year
He's lying bro no way 50 a HR .or even 26 a HR no fuckin way .im in Wisconsin and ur lucky to get 15.00 hr with crap benefits .i swear man no independent shops are where ur gonna get what u are worth and what u know
Yeah if you rip the people off like tire Kingdom
If you own the place maybe...sure he wasn't lying to you?
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$50 per hour only doing tires??? Not even a B tech makes this..😂😂
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