World's most dangerous jobs: Bridge painter

CNBC's Morgan Brennan highlights what it takes to be a bridge painter, one of the most dangerous jobs in the world.

[MIXTECOSdeTOTOTEPEC]

The more dangerous a job is, the higher the pay should be. Just my opinion

[Joplius]

id totally pass the test as even watching the video safe from home was hard.

[endangeredmexican]

2:30 there you go flat earthers you can see earths curvature

[mtl]

I'm guessing those are non union rates cause I know for a fact that those averages are way off. An apprentice makes about as much as the "top" rate with overtime included. If you're a journeyman you're definitely making well over 100k without overtime.

[TheCloakedTiger]

I’ve been to the top of two Bay Area bridges on private tours and it was amazing! I was hardly nervous at all. I loved being up there with a panoramic view. It would be a bucket list item for me to go to the top of the Brooklyn or GW bridges.

[timothybrown]

71k a year is way off. That's about half what a bridge painter out of local 806 working year round makes. And we deserve every penny.

[lathamarea]

i worked for a billboard company, i was working the top of a 120 footer, 12 feet below me on a five foot wide catwalk was my coworker..I was talking to him as he stepped back to eyeball the sections, he walked off backwards, his eyes looking at me..back then we didn't wear any safety gear nor were we required to..They say he died instantly, i turned away..Iwas 25 years old, he was 32..luckily it doesn't haunt me..

[gatsbiehunter]

A crew of only 16 u could say these guys have the ultimate job”

“These guys actually have the balls to do this

[RonSavage]

$30k/yr in NY is nothing! I can make that down here on the ground.

[albertoloera]

I puckered up just watching this video, and im not afraid of heights

[apap]

That's a massive bridge now just imagine the Verrazano.

[RichardSpazzin]

I do graffiti for free on this bridge might as well get paid to do so

[robertorodriges]

good day to everyone, I worked on painting bridges in New York, good luck to everyone.

[margaretbatson]

Oh wow ! Very scary! Not me I'm scared of heights. Lol

[rodneyfields-ixvm]

How is this more dangerous then being an Iron Worker, the guy who actually put all those steel beams up an connected them

[barefootbob]

The pay scale is absolutely ridiculous even on the high end $71 thousand is a crime! A friend of mine makes that for climbing four radio towers a year.

[worldwonders]

Yes 31k is nothing we can make more then working on safe place

[Rangerman]

Those averages are way off unless this crew is non Union. These guys make more around 100k + a year

[brianflannigans]

my bridge painters range from 35 to 85k yr

[justamangoddamn]

oh yeah, wehn i cross a bridge i say to myself "great! the bridge has been repainted, i can cross safely now."