Quote Originally Posted by arb View Post
What is a good hourly wage for working at a scrap yard?

I mean from occasional scale buying to back end processing of non-ferrous material (bailing, sheering extruded aluminum and irony-metals to get the most non-ferrous price, sorting, cutting brass, using a propane torch to cut stainless steel, using a forklift, bobcat, etc...

Or better yet, imagine you had a virtually unlimited supply clean and dirty scrap (a lot of people bring in unclean metal) but your job is to maximize profit)

What would be a good hourly wage for someone that live in a medium sized town (about 100 k people)?
Would depend on experiance, your ability to recognise and grade various types of metals.