77r 0 #1 March 28, 2007 Ok, so at the dropzone I was training at I overheard one of the riggers say she had packed 60 rigs(These were tandem rigs) that day. How much money does that translate to? and how much can a rigger expect to make on an average weekend? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
waltappel 1 #2 March 28, 2007 QuoteOk, so at the dropzone I was training at I overheard one of the riggers say she had packed 60 rigs(These were tandem rigs) that day. How much money does that translate to? and how much can a rigger expect to make on an average weekend? Riggers don't do it for the money--they do it for the chicks and the loads of job satisfaction they get. Walt Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
77r 0 #3 March 28, 2007 Quote Riggers don't do it for the money--they do it for the chicks and the loads of job satisfaction they get. Walt The riggers were girls. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turtlespeed 226 #4 March 28, 2007 QuoteQuote Riggers don't do it for the money--they do it for the chicks and the loads of job satisfaction they get. Walt The riggers were girls. So. or rather . . . AND?I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
77r 0 #5 March 28, 2007 ...and so I doubt girls are doing the rigging to meet other girls. Were getting off topic here. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turtlespeed 226 #6 March 28, 2007 Quote...and so I doubt girls are doing the rigging to meet other girls. Were getting off topic here. Why - do you have something against that? Is that WRONG?I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
77r 0 #7 March 28, 2007 QuoteQuote...and so I doubt girls are doing the rigging to meet other girls. Were getting off topic here. Why - do you have something against that? Is that WRONG? Not at all, but rigger orientation isn't why I posted my question. I just want to know how much money do riggers pull in on the weekends. Simple. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turtlespeed 226 #8 March 28, 2007 QuoteQuoteQuote...and so I doubt girls are doing the rigging to meet other girls. Were getting off topic here. Why - do you have something against that? Is that WRONG? Not at all, but rigger orientation isn't why I posted my question. I just want to know how much money do riggers make. Simple. First of all - I bet you are talkiing about "Packers". While all Riggers pack, not all poackers are riggers and work under the supervisional expertise of a rigger. Our DZ pays I think, 10 for tandems and, and 5 for student rigs.I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
77r 0 #9 March 28, 2007 Thanks for clearing that up. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skybytch 273 #10 March 28, 2007 QuoteI just want to know how much money do riggers make. Riggers or packers? Generally the people you see packing tandem and student canopies aren't riggers, they are packers being "supervised" by a rigger. Packers can pack mains, riggers can pack anything. Pay for packing mains depends on the dz. Figure $8-10 for a tandem and $4-6 for other mains. Pay for packing reserves depends on the dz, the loft, the rigger, the geographical area... I've seen prices for a reserve repack ranging from $35-75, but that doesn't always all go to the rigger doing the work. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hookitt 1 #11 March 28, 2007 Working girls make more money than the guys. Girls smell good and are cute. Then again, I was walking back to my car in San Francisco and those girls weren't girls. Hope that helps.My grammar sometimes resembles that of magnetic refrigerator poetry... Ghetto Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
77r 0 #12 March 28, 2007 QuoteWorking girls make more money than tha guys. Girls smell good and are cute. Then again, I was walking back to my car in San Francisco and those girls weren't girls. Hope that helps. lol. Dosn't help, but thanks for sharing:) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
peregrinerose 0 #13 March 28, 2007 I actually make a lot more when I work packing mains than when I'm doing rigger work. For sport rigs, I get $5 (plus tips) Student rigs pay $6 Tandemsp pay $12 It takes 10 mins or less to pack a sport/student rig most of the time. I can do a tandem in 15 minutes if I'm busting my ass, but usually take a little longer. Rigging work, packing a reserve, I take 3 hours or so on average to inspect/pack. So when looking at an hourly rate, It pays very little compared to packing mains. Remember that packers are paid based on pack jobs. If it's rainy, cold, no jumping going on, we make no money at all, so even though I have made as much as a few hundred bucks in a day, there are other days I watch the wind blow and make nothing. Do or do not, there is no try -Yoda Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ashtanga 0 #14 March 28, 2007 60 tandem rigs in one day? I bet she was tired. I use to pack for a living and the most tandems I ever packed in a day was 30. Plus about 10 student rigs and 10 instructor rigs. Best part about packing all those in one day is listening to the instructors complain about their openings. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thanatos340 1 #15 March 28, 2007 I have always heard that that Packers (Not Riggers) usually make more per weekend than anyone else on the DZ. If they packed 60 Tandem Rigs at the Average price of $10 each.. Well you can do the math. I remember a weekend a while back where one of our packers said she packed 84 rigs (Most Sport rigs so only $5 each plus tip) over 2 days. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
peregrinerose 0 #16 March 28, 2007 I've done close to 60 rigs in a day, 20ish of them were tandems, I could probably do more if I had to, but there are 3 of us packers and we try to keep things pretty evenly divided among us, at least from a number of tandems packed standpoint. But I do my best to make sure that every rig gets the time and attention it deserves. I can pack fast, but I won't rush a pack job... I like the compliments I get as a packer and do my best to be consistent about it. I'm crushed when I get a complaint about an open. Do or do not, there is no try -Yoda Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
77r 0 #17 March 28, 2007 Yep, it was a crazy day. I was supposed to have a packing class before returning home, but all the packers were busy and another jumper took me under his wing to show me how he packs. One thing that scared me was that after I had done my first pack job the packer told me to put it up on the shelf. If something happened to the person who jumped it, they would let me know(said jokingly). I knew I did a good job because I had watched their video a couple times, read a manual twice over and saw people packing all week, but still the packer didn't know that. But yeah, they were busy. Luckily one of the tandems survived a malfunction in fact(not my packjob). Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ashtanga 0 #18 March 28, 2007 Quote like the compliments I get as a packer and do my best to be consistent about it. I'm crushed when I get a complaint about an open. Don't get me wrong I never packed crap but it is fabric you are packing. It is not always going to open perfectly. When I started out I hated to hear complaints but after awhile I learned that the insructors complained because "it didn't snivel enough" or " it was a little off heading". Every once in awhile I got "That was the hardest opening I have ever had in my life!" I would just say , "Your welcome!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jheadley 0 #19 March 28, 2007 QuoteI have always heard that that Packers (Not Riggers) usually make more per weekend than anyone else on the DZ. Possibly, but not in my experience. On the busiest days where I'd make $250-300, TI's would make $500+ and the vidiots would be getting $800+ Actually pretty consistently, whether it'd be a busy day or a slow day, the packers were always the least paid (except for AFF instructors, but this was a tandem factory DZ). Maybe I just had a bad experience. Still even though I don't make much money doing AFF, I'd never go back to packing because at least with AFF, I actually get to SKYDIVE, which is what it's all about. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jumper03 0 #20 March 28, 2007 QuoteI've done close to 60 rigs in a day, 20ish of them were tandems, I could probably do more if I had to, but there are 3 of us packers and we try to keep things pretty evenly divided among us, at least from a number of tandems packed standpoint. But I do my best to make sure that every rig gets the time and attention it deserves. I can pack fast, but I won't rush a pack job... I like the compliments I get as a packer and do my best to be consistent about it. I'm crushed when I get a complaint about an open. One of the best weekends I ever had packing at SDAZ - 60 tandems on saturday, 60 tandems on sunday and a handful of instructor and student rigs thrown in for fun. I still have that pay stub from that cycle... Scars remind us that the past is real Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skybytch 273 #21 March 28, 2007 QuoteEvery once in awhile I got "That was the hardest opening I have ever had in my life!" I would just say , "Your welcome!" Heh. My favorite reply to that kind of comment was "So sorry your parachute opened. I'll try harder next time." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ashtanga 0 #22 March 28, 2007 QuoteHeh. My favorite reply to that kind of comment was "So sorry your parachute opened. I'll try harder next time." My favorite was the time a student cutaway and her boyfriend came into the packing area and started yelling at us. She came in with the instructor and she chopped a perfectly good canopy because she thought the slider should have came down further. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
karenmeal 0 #23 March 28, 2007 On a consistently busy day working from about 10:30am to 9:30 pm I could make about 400-500. I took about 5 minutes to pack sport rigs and student rigs and under 10 to pack a tandem. It was pretty sweet those days when I worked hard enough to make rent in one day. But then I had to go and screw up my knee. "Life is a temporary victory over the causes which induce death." - Sylvester Graham Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
karenmeal 0 #24 March 28, 2007 How about the one that chops because the slider wouldn't go back up? The weirdest explanation I ever got for a student chopping my pack job was that her instructor kept falling after she deployed her main. Since her instructor wasn't there.. she decided to get under her reserve. Uhh.... "Life is a temporary victory over the causes which induce death." - Sylvester Graham Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
peregrinerose 0 #25 March 28, 2007 The weirdest I heard was that the student 'had astigmatism so couldn't see the canopy' over her head, so chopped. Idiot. Do or do not, there is no try -Yoda Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
