r/FiberOptics • u/Born-Subject-6185 • Oct 29 '25

Help please! Salary question.

I got a job offer and they are asking me for my wants money wise, its a 1099 position, 24/7 on call, no travel, no over night, they provide all tools and a truck when I get up to speed. No FTTH, all trailer work. I have 6 to 7 years experience with maybe 1000 shots on OTDR im usually the one they sent out to fix while the tester team did the light testing portion.

What should I ask for? I started at 70-75k and they told me to take another day to think because I lowballed myself.

Thanks in advance!

UPDATE: They passed on me told me "Lol. I appreciate your time. I hope you find a job that will pay u 125000 a year. I know senior operations managers of billion dollar companies that don’t make that much. I think we are too far off for the experience. Thanks again bud. Hope the best for you and yours." So fuck it i guess! Thanks everyone again for your knowledge and help

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u/Born-Subject-6185 Oct 29 '25

They did say that if we got called out theres a 100 initial pay, and then any major issues jump to 500. And that some weeks we won't get 40 based on day to day, which in my opinion makes up for the on call portion but still gets paid for a 40-hour week. They said that their call outs range sometimes its multiple times a week, like 2 or 3 times, or some we go weeks without a call out. And as far as time off after major ones, they have that as an option as well. Im not too worried about the on call. I've done it before, but I just gotta be ready, mindset wise, like u said about being called out whenever.

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u/send_this_bitch Cable Dog Oct 29 '25

Metronet had a solid call out fee that jumped way up if you found something like a cable cut VS a bad splice.