Frustration grows as Big Build stop sign holder annual wage is revealed

Stop-and-go sign holders on government-funded Big Build projects are earning over $200,000 annually, according to a new report.

The amount of money being paid to entry-level workers is frustrating those people employed in the industry, but who aren’t unionised and aren’t part of Victoria’s major construction projects.

“It’s no disrespect to the industry because it’s my people who do this job,” former Traffic Management Association of Australia president Brendan Woods told 3AW Breakfast.

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“You can enter this industry with a one day course and get access, we have school teachers and nurses doing four years of degrees who are earning far less than that.”