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Ford CEO laments he can’t fill 5,000 mechanic jobs paying $120K per year
Posted on 11/15/25 at 8:29 am
Posted on 11/15/25 at 8:29 am
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Ford has been unable to fill some 5,000 openings for mechanics despite offering a salary of $120,000 a year — prompting the company’s chief executive to warn of a dire shortage of skilled tradespeople in the US.
“We are in trouble in our country. We are not talking about this enough,” Ford CEO Jim Farley said on an episode of the “Office Hours: Business Edition” podcast published earlier this week.
“We have over a million openings in critical jobs, emergency services, trucking, factory workers, plumbers, electricians and tradesmen.”
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The BLS projects an average of 67,800 openings for automotive service technicians and mechanics each year through 2033.
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Part of the problem is demographics. Baby boomers are retiring from the trades faster than millennials and Gen Zers are entering them.
But it’s not just about numbers. The skills required to work in manufacturing have evolved, according to Garrity.
“A lot of the openings that we see today, it’s not just manual of days past, but combining manual and digital skill,” he said.
Link to New York Post Article
I know people on this board have talked about this a lot.
A CEO has acknowledged it. If some of these young kids want a job they have to stop wasting time on useless college degrees. Learn a trade and get your hands a little dirty.
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Posted on 11/15/25 at 8:30 am to CSinLC
Point to this anytime someone says we need to pay more for goods to bring manufacturing back to give jobs to the people who are refusing to take these jobs.
Posted on 11/15/25 at 8:30 am to CSinLC
Time to retrain the baristas.
Posted on 11/15/25 at 8:33 am to CSinLC
More jobs lost to AI
Posted on 11/15/25 at 8:34 am to CSinLC
Maybe Ford can start a trade school and get certified by the US dept of education.
Start a program where you train high schoolers/ recent grads to be mechanics/ other trades and retain them as mechanics when they graduate.
“Ford School of Mechanics” .
Start a program where you train high schoolers/ recent grads to be mechanics/ other trades and retain them as mechanics when they graduate.
“Ford School of Mechanics” .
Posted on 11/15/25 at 8:35 am to CSinLC
It's 5000 job openings, not 5 million. He can't fill these jobs because they didn't invest in developing their work force.
Posted on 11/15/25 at 8:36 am to Bison
quote:that’s too logical.
Maybe Ford can start a trade school and get certified by the US dept of education. Start a program where you train high schoolers/ recent grads to be mechanics/ other trades and retain them as mechanics when they graduate. “Ford School of Mechanics” .
Posted on 11/15/25 at 8:36 am to Bison
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Earlier this year, Ford rolled out a $4 million initiative to fund scholarship for auto technicians.
Actually the article says Ford is trying to give out money to have people trained.
Posted on 11/15/25 at 8:37 am to CSinLC
At 120k/y a mechanic would be strapped trying to buy a Ford truck for himself and an SUV for his wife.
Posted on 11/15/25 at 8:37 am to CSinLC
Don’t blame the kids. They’ve been told they need a college degree by everyone forever. Turns out it’s mostly worthless and the only ones profiting are the universities who churn out miserable little commies.
Posted on 11/15/25 at 8:39 am to Jizzy08
This is a failure by Ford and no one else
Posted on 11/15/25 at 8:40 am to fightin tigers
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At 120k/y a mechanic would be strapped trying to buy a Ford truck for himself and an SUV for his wife.
I'm sure they get an employee discount. But a 120K salary doesn't support buying a new full size Ford pickup
Posted on 11/15/25 at 8:40 am to Powerman
quote:all that needs to be said.
This is a failure by Ford and no one else
Posted on 11/15/25 at 8:41 am to Powerman
What a stupid comment
Posted on 11/15/25 at 8:42 am to CSinLC
quote:not here in central Alabama. these guys are getting laid off. not hiring.
plumbers, electricians and tradesmen.”
Posted on 11/15/25 at 8:43 am to fightin tigers
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At 120k/y a mechanic would be strapped trying to buy a Ford truck for himself and an SUV for his wife.
A realtor would often be strapped trying to buy a $2 million house, but it doesn’t mean they need to be paid an amount equal to their clients. Line cooks probably cannot afford to eat at Ruth’s Chris. We don’t need to pay them three times what they make. Pilots cannot afford G-6 planes. Do we need to pay them enough to be able to afford a plane in order to hire them?
Posted on 11/15/25 at 8:45 am to CSinLC
But I want to be an online influencer and not have to go to a job everyday
Posted on 11/15/25 at 8:47 am to Powerman
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I'm sure they get an employee discount. But a 120K salary doesn't support buying a new full size Ford pickup
Of course it does idiot. Most people don’t make 120k a year.
Posted on 11/15/25 at 8:48 am to SlowFlowPro
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refusing to take these jobs.
these jobs the ceo is talking about don't exist.
Very very very few are making 120k as a Ford flat rate mechanic. Its absolute bullshite claim.
Ford has a terrible reputation to work for as a mechanic. There is a reason they can't find workers. Its organic.
Posted on 11/15/25 at 8:48 am to Powerman
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It's 5000 job openings, not 5 million. He can't fill these jobs because they didn't invest in developing their work force.
I’m wondering where these jobs supposedly are.
I don’t hear about BMW and Toyota car plants begging 5,000 people to take unfilled jobs.
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