Ford CEO Jim Farley laments he can’t fill 5,000 mechanic jobs paying $120K per year: ‘We are in trou

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 Ford CEO Jim Farley laments he can’t fill 5,000 mechanic jobs paying $120K per year: ‘We are in trouble in our country’
By Ariel Zilber   
Published Nov. 14, 2025, 5:18 p.m. ET

Ford has been unable to fill some 5,000 openings for mechanics despite offering a salary of $120,000 a year — prompting the company’s chief executive to warn of a dire shortage of skilled tradespeople in the US.

“We are in trouble in our country. We are not talking about this enough,” Ford CEO Jim Farley said on an episode of the “Office Hours: Business Edition” podcast published earlier this week.

“We have over a million openings in critical jobs, emergency services, trucking, factory workers, plumbers, electricians and tradesmen.”

Farley added: “It’s a very serious thing.”

The $120,000 pay is nearly twice the average annual American salary, according to the Social Security Administration.

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[Kamaji]

Trade school is absolutely a legitimate career path starter these days.

[Bigun]

Trade school is absolutely a legitimate career path starter these days.

  Always has been really.

[Free Vulcan]

Doesn't matter how much you pay some people, they aren't going to do physical labor. They are above that, and don't bow down to sully themselves with such things.

We have become a prideful nation more concerned about social status and what other think than having a good wage and an honest profession.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Aren't there some junior mechanics or something they could train?