r/skilledtrades↗
Skilled Trades
Are you an electrician? A welder? Or any of the hundred skilled trades in exsistance? A subreddit, designed just for you.
67k subscribers265 posts / mo in Sep 2026239 authors / mosince 2012
r/skilledtrades has 67k members (+35% over the last 12 months). It gets about 265 posts a month from 239 people. Top topics: Trades Career Path, Union Apprenticeships and Apprenticeships Advice.
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Share of the subreddit's posts
- Trades Career Path23%
- Union Apprenticeships7.7%
- Apprenticeships Advice6.0%
- Electrician Apprenticeship5.1%
- HVAC Trades4.1%
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- Union Pay Scales
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Alberta
- USAJOBS
- Indeed
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