When I was at the dealer I made $25-27/ hour while they billed $109/ hour. I started as a helper and worked my way up to being probably the best mid-level guy there in a shop of about 35 guys. They wouldn’t give me any more money (except hourly incentives) because I wasn’t fully factory trained, but they wasted money on other techs for training, I was halfway certified in everything….which you can (could, this was 10-20 years ago) train 70% online. That was enough for putting your name to a warranty repair, that’s all they cared about. The guys that got the full in person training were only the best of the best, they’d come to our shop and blow steam up managements butt to get the job, get trained, and immediately quit to go back to better paying shops.
