Question about foreman/general foreman pay, and potential masters benefits.
freshly topped out last summer. took a call for a newer shop recently, been running a small solar job with 4 people under me making foreman scale. shop owner asked if I'd take on another job, small commercial job with 2-3 JW. it's about 2 hours away and he said he'd give me a company truck and only expect me to be onsite 1 day a week to check in. it would start in a couple weeks and run concurrently with the job I'm running now.
he also has several smaller jobs located in the warehouse the current solar job is on. lighting retrofit, moving some gear, demoing out some old gear, and he's hoping to be the maintenance contractor for this company. these would also run concurrently.
at what point do I talk about general foreman scale? he's mentioned getting other foremen on and having me in charge of them with GF pay, but depending on how the jobs line up (bidding being finalized) there might only be a couple weeks overlap on a given job so he might not mess with getting foremen for each one. I'm new to the jobrynning aspect of the trade.
he's also asked me about getting my master's and my instrumentation certification. these were both things I was interested in before (I do well academically) but haven't actively pursued because there hasn't been a reason. what kind of benefits would I negotiate for myself? it seems like masters tend to go for 115% scale, all bonding an insurance paid for, guaranteed 40, company truck and so many paid vacation days. and instrument techs seem to go for $100/day per diem and guaranteed so many instrument tech hours per year to maintain the license. is there more I should be asking for?
never been one to pledge allegiance to a contractor, but he does right by me and I see this as an opportunity to get the masters and instrument tech for future work.