Platemaker pay?

[G_Town]

What are you paying your plate makers, just plate making nothing else except for maybe cutting blankets?

Does anyone even have just straight platemakers anymore?

[born2print]

Not so much these days.
Here you either "took on multiple tasks" or "broadened your scope" or "collected a pink slip"

[David]

you pay these guys?!?

damn, all I got was a nanner sammich.

[Ear]

My platemaker says "Platerite" on the side... he collects no paycheck. I stuff a few hundred plates in him, every day and he just does his job. 

[born2print]

Howdy Ear! 

[Ear]

ello poppet

[DigiCorn]

What are you paying your plate makers, just plate making nothing else except for maybe cutting blankets?

Does anyone even have just straight platemakers anymore?

Our platemakers are also our proofers

[andyfest]

What are you paying your plate makers, just plate making nothing else except for maybe cutting blankets?

Does anyone even have just straight platemakers anymore?

We had a person that was dedicated to making plates only until 2009. She didn't have any other prepress skills i.e.: digital skills and I think the going rate back then was about CDN$15/hr. The company laid her off in '09 and put the platemaking burden on the remaining 4 ppl in prepress. We share the platemaking duty now.

[G_Town]

What are you paying your plate makers, just plate making nothing else except for maybe cutting blankets?

Does anyone even have just straight platemakers anymore?

We had a person that was dedicated to making plates only until 2009. She didn't have any other prepress skills i.e.: digital skills and I think the going rate back then was about CDN$15/hr. The company laid her off in '09 and put the platemaking burden on the remaining 4 ppl in prepress. We share the platemaking duty now.

Thanks, anyone else with a answer I can pass on to HR : p

[SpicyVindaloo]

Ours make over $19 and will help out with cutting down proofs if need be.

[Farabomb]

If yours make over $19 I need a job at your place. That's shockingly close to what I get paid and I'm a one man band here.

[Ear]

What are you paying your plate makers, just plate making nothing else except for maybe cutting blankets?

Does anyone even have just straight platemakers anymore?

We had a person that was dedicated to making plates only until 2009. She didn't have any other prepress skills i.e.: digital skills and I think the going rate back then was about CDN$15/hr. The company laid her off in '09 and put the platemaking burden on the remaining 4 ppl in prepress. We share the platemaking duty now.

Thanks, anyone else with a answer I can pass on to HR : p

No

[SpicyVindaloo]

If yours make over $19 I need a job at your place. That's shockingly close to what I get paid and I'm a one man band here.

If you want to move to Phoenix, AZ let me know! It's getting really difficult finding competent prepress help. Especially for 2nd or 3rd shift.

[wonderings]

We have never had straight platemakers, always combined with the prepress department. Though I can't imagine doing what I do now and still having time to make film, strip it and burn it to plates. Thankfully it process free now,  make the plate, pull it out and put it in a folder and I am done.

[Farabomb]

Even when I started in the industry 15+ years ago there wasn't a dedicated platemaker at our shop. I was hired as a proof maker, meaning I fed the 4 up polaproof it's CMYK media sheets. After one of the film platemakers took a unscheduled vacation (coke binge) for a week, I had to learn real quick how to burn plates. The production manager realized I'm not a window licker and I began my learnings of the dark arts of prepress.