The Thai cabinet approved new pay rates for three groups of workers today (Tuesday), covering 16 occupations, as proposed by the Labour Ministry.

 

Construction workers:

• Gypsum board installation: Level 1: 450 baht/day; Level 2: 595 baht/day
• Draughtsmen: Level 1: 645 baht/day
• Tilers: Level 1: 450 baht/day; Level 2: 550 baht; Level 3: 650 bath/day
• Building painters: Level 1: 465 baht/day; Level 2: 600 baht/day
• Aerated concrete layers: Level 1: 475 baht/day; Level 2: 575 baht/day

 

Industrial arts:

• Decorative item workers: Level 1: 450 baht/day; Level 2: 550 baht/day; Level 3: 650 baht/day
• Furniture assembly: Level 1: 430 baht/day; Level 2: 550 baht/day
• Antique decorative item workers: Level 1: 525 baht/day
• Nielloware workers: Level 1: 625 baht/day

 

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Amazing!

 

So a guy plastering gypsum all day will almost have enough to buy his family 1 kilo of pork, a bag of rice and some cooking oil.

 

Or he could save up two days wages and splash out on a single durian.

 

Amazing Thailand indeed.

 

The tiling rate is nonense too.  Any tiler worth his salt will be sub contracting for at least 150baht per meter.  Even a one armed tradie should be able to lay more than 3 square meter of tiles in a day.

'Cabinet approves new wage rates for skilled workers in Thailand' I wouldn't have thought there was enough money in the treasury to pay both skilled workers.

Nice to know I could hire a top notch guy for £15 a day !

How do they differentiates between the different levels - who decides the grading?

 

Try finding a decent tiler in Pattaya for those rates.........

Edited May 11, 20224 yr by topt

Im shocked... didn't know they had any.. certainly wont be the ones who built my place..

not worth learning skills then

 

better off spending the day in a room smoking drugs