{ "item_title" : "The Hoistway", "item_author" : [" Empire Publishing "], "item_description" : "The best-paid trade you can enter with a high-school diploma.Also the hardest one to get into.Elevator constructors are the best-paid building trade in America: a median of about $109,900 a year (BLS OEWS, May 2025 - that is the incumbent median, describing people already doing the job, not what a first-year apprentice earns; the bottom tenth of the trade sits nearer $59,000). Only about 23,790 people hold the job nationally, roughly 2,000 openings a year are projected through 2034, and employment is growing faster than average. No degree required.The catch is the door, and it is a genuinely hard one. Entry runs through a four-year paid apprenticeship administered by NEIEP for the IUEC, gated by the Elevator Industry Aptitude Test. Local recruitment windows open rarely - sometimes years apart - and when one opens, far more people apply than there are slots.Almost everything written for this trade is aptitude-test coaching. This book is not that, and it will tell you which test-prep materials mechanics actually rate rather than pretending to replace them. What it covers is the part nobody writes down: how to find out when your local is actually recruiting, how the ranked-list and interview process really works, how the non-union route compares honestly, and what the four apprentice years do to your body, your schedule and your pay.It is honest about the constraints. Recruitment is local and infrequent, so geography decides a lot. The work is safety-critical and physical. Layoffs track construction cycles. Those are reasons to run the application game properly, not reasons to look away from the best-paid door in the trades.This book sits beside our lineworker guide, not on top of it: that trade is outdoor, storm-driven and travel-heavy; this one is indoor, urban and building-based. Chapter three sets the two lives side by side so you can pick. Elevator mechanic licensing is state-by-state and signposted throughout, and an Australian appendix covers the separate local regime, where the work falls under state licensing and high-risk-work rules.The door opens rarely. The point is to be ready when it does.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/819/265/9798192652732_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "17.99", "online_price" : "17.99", "our_price" : "17.99", "club_price" : "17.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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