Shop Class Not for Slackers as Mechanic Out-Earns Peers

Two years out of high school, Evan Fischbach is earning $40,000 a year. His secret: shop class. When Fischbach was still a junior, a local auto dealer desperate for mechanics hired him as an apprentice in the service bay. Now he’s earning about three times as much as the average 19-year-old high school grad and slightly more than the national median, according the Bureau of Labor Statistics... read more