3 general questions about YOUR terrain park.

F.A.R.T

F.A.R.T

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I am trying to expand my local park so that it is respectable and not rubbish. Could I get some info so I can pay myself and my staff a respectable average? I would love to know:

Lead hand $per/h

Assistant $per/h

Total staff in your park

Thanks homies!

**This thread was edited on Aug 31st 2017 at 11:54:44am
 
Windells digger made 92 dollars per session, via 40 hours of pay, plus they had their housing/food taken care of, so it ranges across the spectrum. I made 9.50, as the lead digger and the rest of the crew made 8.50 an hour working for a peak resort (during the 2015); but i know a few places that pay as high as 11-12 per hour, but the cost of living reflects the increased pay rate. We had a staff of 12, with four or five people working on build days plus the cat driver, with 2-3 working on non-build days.

**This post was edited on Aug 31st 2017 at 12:01:19pm
 
13833287:rudolph said:
Windells digger made 92 dollars per session, via 40 hours of pay, plus they had their housing/food taken care of, so it ranges across the spectrum. I made 9.50, as the lead digger and the rest of the crew made 8.50 an hour working for a peak resort (during the 2015); but i know a few places that pay as high as 11-12 per hour, but the cost of living reflects the increased pay rate. We had a staff of 12, with four or five people working on build days plus the cat driver, with 2-3 working on non-build days.

**This post was edited on Aug 31st 2017 at 12:01:19pm
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Windells diggers also have transport to and from mountain as well as a Tline summer pass which is $1000 included. That said, they still arent paid enough.
 
not sure what my manager makes probably around 17-20 an hour, (could be totally wrong i really have no idea, never was interested in asking)

assistants ranged from 9.75 to 12 an hour

this year we had 7 people on our squad.

2.5 Full parks with 40+ features in the main park, ~20/25 for the smaller park and like 4 rails in our baby park.

I made like a little under 300 a week working there, would be more if i worked there but i had two jobs in the winter these past couple years
 
Where I'm at Attendants/Shapers are starting at $10/hr. Moving up from there we have Leads of different classifications that will top out around $14/hr. with adequate experience. After that we have the supervisory roles and the manager role but I wont be getting into that on here.

From what I've seen most small-medium sized resorts will pay their park staff absolutely terrible wages until they're burned tf out and quit. Then they start the whole cycle over again with fresh meat all the way at the bottom of their pay scale. Rinse repeat. If you're getting going with a management role, get a season or 2 under your belt and move on if you're not seeing adequate compensation and budgets to work with.

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Total staff we work with per day is around 6-8 working 4-10hr shifts per week. We're running 3 parks with about 80-100 features to maintenance/inspect 3 times daily + all the signs/baffles/ingress/egress.

Plus 2 of our parks sit at 11k so that's where most of our days are spent when it snows. It's fucking brutal.

Hope that helps. If you have any questions at all hit me up on here or @taaaaahm on ig. Terrain park operations logistics are my jam, man.

**This post was edited on Sep 2nd 2017 at 3:32:14pm
 
Its New Zealand so wages are a bit higher.

Lead hand gets around $20 per hour with people starting out around $16.

We have 10 hand crew guys and 6 cat drivers. We have 4 Parks, 2 half pipes, boardercross, and a separate big air jump. We usually have 6 hand crew guys a day but are running 7 or 8 because we have a few world cup events going on.
 
13833365:theabortionator said:
I typed out an answer but I'm half conscious so take a look at this tomorrow so I'm semi coherent
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Bouncing arounf Africa literally in a rickety whip on beat to shit dirt roads.

Just got back on the webz but everythings been answered.

Most smaller places rock minimum for attendants. Larger mtns generally 10. Leads will be a bit higher and sup/manager depends on the place.
 
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