{"id":63264,"date":"2025-09-14T09:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T09:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/63264\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T09:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T09:33:08","slug":"who-earns-more-money-your-electrician-or-your-accountant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/63264\/","title":{"rendered":"Who earns more money \u2013 your electrician or your accountant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nWith generative AI potentially posing an existential threat to white-collar jobs everywhere, we explore the pay rates and opportunities available in two very different career paths\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Light-bulb moment: accountants and electricians can both earn large amounts\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/8a7557f5-112d-4a9c-a496-803fe991086d.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Light-bulb moment: accountants and electricians can both earn large amounts<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">After CAO offers were released at the end of August, some parents were naturally beaming with pride when telling friends and neighbours that their son or daughter \u201cgot into Trinity\u201d. But many of the same parents still reel in shock from an invoice they receive from their local electrician, tiler or plumber \u2013 assuming they managed to get a tradesperson to return their call in the first place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">With tradespeople charging higher rates and generative AI posing an existential threat to white-collar jobs, many school-leavers with an eye on a high-earning job wonder if they\u2019re better off skipping the traditional university route and driving straight into a craft apprenticeship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With generative AI potentially posing an existential threat to white-collar jobs everywhere, we explore the pay rates and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,4891,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-63264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-gabrielle-monaghan","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}