Better Choice Bigger Future.

Program Overview

Do you have smart students who just aren’t interested in or aren’t headed to college. Do they like to work with their hands? Are they hardworking and interested in learning new skills? Tell them they can Choose Bigger with a career in the Sheet Metal Industry – Bigger Salary, Bigger Opportunities, Bigger Ways to Help their Community, and all with NO STUDENT LOAN DEBT. THAT’S BIG!

Every student deserves a BIG future.

A career in the Sheet Metal Industry offers a number of specialized opportunities to increase their marketability in an ever increasingly competitive job market. Apprentices can specialize in any of nearly a dozen specialty fields along with working their way to foreman, superintendent, or project manager. In fact, about 50% of the sheet metal contractors in Colorado are owned by former sheet metal workers who graduated from our Colorado Sheet Metal Workers Apprenticeship Program.

WHAT THEY'LL MAKE...

 

  • 1st Year Apprentice: $19.37/hr Wage + $11.77/hr Employer Covered Benefits
  • 2nd Year Apprentice: $22.87/hr Wage + $12.66/hr Employer Covered Benefits
  • 3rd Year Apprentice: $24.56/hr Wage + $15.94/hr Employer Covered Benefits
  • 4th Year Apprentice: $28.03/hr Wage + $16.83/hr Employer Covered Benefits
  • Starting Journeyman: $34.95/hr Wage + $18.61/hr Employer Covered Benefits
  • Starting Foreman: $38.045/hr Wage + $18.61/hr Employer Covered Benefits
  • General Foreman: $41.91/hr Wage + $18.61/hr Employer Covered benefits

Sheet Metal Apprentice"I got an education. I didn’t have to pay. And I got right to working in the field, right away. Everybody here wants to teach you."
- Rachel Wilkerson, 31, 3rd Year Apprentice, Computer Aided Drafting & Production

 

 

Once they have completed their apprenticeship, it takes just a few more classes to complete their associates degree.