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Their both married to Separate people. Dennis wife can be found if you know her name (I won't post it here) on Facebook. I've heard she is a lawyer. Heather is an Engineer by trade.
It varies greatly and can include different things like room and board, cell phone, and etc. So your going to get all kinds of answers and they are likely all right just from different experiences.
A typical full time crew can get as little as 200.00 a week and a percentage of winnings to 750.00 a week and some benefits. Most are in the 400.00 to 600.00 range with some benefits and percentage of winnings.
For an experienced well known crew chief upwards of 1200.00 or slightly more a week isn't totally uncommon but it's a well know name and probably gets some type of benefits also.
Like I said it varies a ton especially on benefits, some may have to live in the hauler for housing or have a apartment provided or one in the owners shop, some may get a % of all winnings and some may only get a % if they win a race, some may get a company car or cell phone to use, and all kinds of other things can be included. Usually the more benefits you get the less cash per week but not always.
For the most part you do it because you like to not for the money. It's crap pay for the amount of hours you put in and are away from home, even for a regional guy. many times it works out to 10.00 an hour if you're lucky some weeks it much worse, lol You really have to include the hours traveling and the hours you spend all day at the track as it's not like you can really do something else, like go fishing or spend time with the family. So on a 2 day race you really spend 20 some hours there while it's not all work, you can't really do anything like if you where off normal work on the week end. So many times you may put in 60 hours a week and get paid 400.00, LOL
Good Post Billet! In 1997, I was on $600/week plus a %. The biggest problem is that things have never changed. It's still the same "salary". Until we get corporate dollars into the sport, the teams will continue to struggle. I'm hopeful that Craftsman being involved will now open some doors for other companies to see the value in what we do.
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