re: What are some jobs that pay less than people expect.

I've said before in this board that a competent, up-to-date with the newest methods plumber- especially one with the tooling and equipment to do new installs- can name his price and take the phone off the hook because he's booked out until infinity.

I am in real estate. I know of what you say, and I agree.

Hell I had a new shop built on a property and needed 800 feet of 1 1/2 inch poly pipe laid from where the boring company stubbed out my main and put in a meter all the way up to the new shop's slab. The plumbers who were capable were so far behind that I wound up building a pipe laying jig and welding it to a $150 Tractor Supply subsoiler and we did it ourselves. It would've cost me at least a couple thousand to get a plumber to do it, and I'd of gladly paid it, but what are you gonna do in a rural area with limited resources for provided services?

The capable plumbers I contract with were so snowed under and nonchalant about a job that would gross a few thousand dollars and only take a couple of hours to do- what does that tell you?

That plumbing contractors, particularly master plumbers and/or non-shade tree plumbers, generate impressive revenue.