Man how one year makes a difference…that was good money last year.
It’s not all about the $ all the time to some people.
I’m happy with the people I work for and work with. Got great benefits, nice equipment to work on and even time schedule. Best of all no union to deal with.
Same for me
Dann 228 + 5. For ab with stcw. Dann marine is the bottom of the barrel trash company.
Senior/Junior Dp operators on drillships or semi-submersibles? Company specific…
Are these rates same for drill ships or just work boats?
In n Out Burger.
If its not equal time, its not worth it.
[QUOTE=Pikuptruk;90405]In n Out Burger.[/QUOTE]
Thats a good point. In n Out is a great place with good burgers. The employees are always friendly and never have an attitude. They have never screwed up my order. It just goes to show that you pay someone a little more and you attracted good employees who help make the business better
Dicks in Seattle is the same too.
I’m close to upgrading to mate at GulfMark. I can’t get anyone to tell me what the pay is in that position to decide if I want to stay or move somewhere else though. It would take a pretty big difference for me to leave here. It really is a great company. As an AB Unlimited with all of the STCW and RFPNW, they are paying $280 per day plus $10 per day for every year that you stay with them. You have to jump through a bunch if hoops to get any training paid and have to sign a two year agreement to stay. The health insurance is decent and the family plan costs about $330 p/mo. 401k match to 5%. There is also no travel pay. Any information would be appreciated. If we have these conversations to help one another, we can all benefit in the end! Thanks
captain76. Holy crap! You get 10 bucks a day per year? That is awesome. Regarding the secretive nature of the wages, that is a part of it being a Non Union company. Everyone acts like they are a special case, and no one talks about wages. If people could discuss wages (like through this forum) it would be better for all! Unfortunately quite a few people have this selfish notion that ‘I can’t talk about it, because someone else may make more than me.’. When it should be, ‘We should all be on similar footing.’.
Unfortunately, what the office wants is for us to all be on the same footing ( at the BOTTOM of the payscale.)
I agree that they will always pay the least possible but I want now and to never have to deal with any union. Everyone has their opinion and this is mine. I never said that I have a special case. I am better than no one here and no one here is any better than I. That’s just the truth of it all.
I would stay just to get some experience, after a year or two then go look for a new job. You can’t buy experience and that’s what gets you that better job. Also if you don’t have your DP stay until you get that, that’s what really gets you the next job.
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I agree that they will always pay the least possible but I want now and to never have to deal with any union. Everyone has their opinion and this is mine. I never said that I have a special case. I am better than no one here and no one here is any better than I. That’s just the truth of it all.[/QUOTE]
That post sort of wandered from my original intent. What I meant to convey is, similar to your earlier post about using this forum to openly discuss wages, bennies and conditions ALMOST makes organized labor obsolete. Almost! I have never met a company that had published wages out in the open, that wasn’t Union. The companies that have an open wage policy always seem to have a ‘secret society’ of ‘special cases’. I never implied you were a special case, just that in ‘secret’ wage negotiations, Bubbas brother will invariably make more than you because of Relalative Ability. That is wrong. This is one of the great things about this forum. Eventually truth shows up, and everyone gets to see ( read) what is really up in the industry.
Working at Bouchard comes to mind when a newbie asks about the conditions there, and someone ALWAYS cries about how Bouchard is SO great. Then about 6 months later they repost about how all the info they got was spot on, and they moved on.
We used to have this problem with the complicated pay template. Now that it has been simplified everyone makes the same basic day rate. The difference between me and the next guy is longevity pay. If he makes a few bucks more a day than me it’s because he has been with the company longer. That isn’t due to nepotism or favoritism.
[QUOTE=captaint76;91163]I’m close to upgrading to mate at GulfMark. I can’t get anyone to tell me what the pay is in that position to decide if I want to stay or move somewhere else though. It would take a pretty big difference for me to leave here. It really is a great company. As an AB Unlimited with all of the STCW and RFPNW, they are paying $280 per day plus $10 per day for every year that you stay with them. You have to jump through a bunch if hoops to get any training paid and have to sign a two year agreement to stay. The health insurance is decent and the family plan costs about $330 p/mo. 401k match to 5%. There is also no travel pay. Any information would be appreciated. If we have these conversations to help one another, we can all benefit in the end! Thanks[/QUOTE]
captain76, I have had 2 qmeds this past year that had enough time to sit for there first DDE licnese. Since they have very little chance of moving up here, they left and went to the first place that would hire them with a fresh license. That was gulfmark. both got a nice bump in pay from going from qmed here to licnesed engineer there. They give me mixed reviews of the company, They also told me about the 10 bucks a year, but there is also a cap on that, and from what they tell me it is around 70 to 100 bucks. That sounds real good until they tell me what they are making for a day rate. Which both started in the 550 a day range. when you compare that to the big OSV companys, they are roughly 100 to 200 bucks a day behind the pay scale to start off with, so getting a 100 dollar a day senority pay still puts them benind. Granted these are mediocore engineers, that after they get some experience will probably be able to move on to something better. That is basically what I see GM being is a stepping stone to something better, after some experience and the ink drying on your license. If they actually come up on there pay scale to closer to some of the other companys, and they still treat you good, maybe then it will be a different story.
However if they treat you good, and you are happy with what you are making or will be making after you get your license, that makes up for alot of things right there. Extra money is not always worth it if it comes with a extra load of B.S. to go along with it. Some people tend to forgot about the being content part, and just want to be a whore and jump in bed with the guy that has the biggest tip that day.
Not exactly from the bridge but hopefully it helps a little.
I had that recently when I delivered a vessel a couple months ago. Dicks is dam good.
I know the money we are making in the oil field has become quite nice, but this industry is booming. The backlog of work in the GOM is enormous. The advertised day rates for large supply boats has increased more than seven thousand dollars a day in the last four months and sixteen thousand a day over the last year. I think it is about time to increase wages across the board. Some of that profit needs to make its way into the checks of the mariners and supporting staff who make it happen 365 days a year. I certainly am not making two and a half times what I was making this time last year. Remember, this is not the end of a boom it is still in the beginning.