I have been following this thread in curiosity as I have worked in both the collision and hot rod/ resto industry. Now being an educator, salary expectations comes up regularly in meetings and discussions with students.
The salary info our state gives us is so far off I will not use it as an example for my students. High 30s to low 40s is not a very enticing number nor is it accurate for the shops I have worked at.
As others have stated, collision work is not resto/hot rod work. The easier money is in collision work.
So to answer the original question of what an employee may be worth is difficult. A commission based collision guy is worth as much as he/she can produce. A resto/street rod guy is worth the skills he can deliver and how the shop owner can sell those skills.
This is just a long way to say that I really do not know.
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Anthony
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