Juniors enter the firm. They complain they have “low wages”. Then they also complain that their earnings are “not stable”……but others are earning HUUUGE dollars.
Please note – as we improve in our firm, we are always looking towards better pay. But better pay can only come with better skills. And more innovation for the benefit of clients.
Bonuses
Biggest bonus we’ve ever paid in one month to one senior guy was about $6000. Which is a huge, huge bonus. For one month. Add on the wages to that. That’s not bad.
Wages
Top TLs earn anywhere between 1.7 – 2.6 lakhs per month.
Then EBs and bonuses come on top of that.
But why am I not earning that much?
It is because you don’t know (much), if at all anything.
If you KNOW – then CLIENTS will pay you for your knowledge.
If you don’t know then clients will not pay for mistake and ignorance.
Clients hire us to help make THEM money.
How can I earn more?
Learn. If i ask you to read a memo – read it and learn it. Don’t pretend you read it, and then lie to cover up your ignorance.
Learn the standards: we have standards available. Learn them. Read them.
Read Tek1 Memos: We write memos so you can learn and improve.
Follow TL instructions: a great way of learning.
For Bonus Points:
Publish what you learn: Every time you learn something that is useful – help other people learn by publishing your learnings on our blog!
Publish tutorial videos on Loom: this helps our staff internally and builds confidence with clients.
Publish a portfolio of your work: Firstly for your own benefit, and also for clients who will hire you, after seeing your work.
And if nothing else – you can use your online presence to BID UP offers from other firms if you want to leave.
How to maintain a low wage for life:
Don’t bother learning.
Don’t read standards.
Make mistakes, destroy your clients and and apologise and say: “i will take care next time” without actually changing anything.
Rather than learning and improving at Tek1 – simply jump from job to job every 12 months for higher increments. That is a strategy that will work in the short run, but probably may not be the best in the long run. Because wherever you go – people will pay you only for what you know.
Hurt your clients with mediocre work.
We will rapidly increase your bonuses / billables if you rapidly learn: We’ve done this with at least two guys. I can’t name them publicly.
June 2026 – Top Bonuses for Juniors
Employee A:
Join date: 11/12/2023
EB and Bonus for June 26: 31454.40
Not bad for someone with under 3 years experience.
Employee B:
Join Date: 11/08/2025
EB and Bonus for June 26: 19842.48
Not bad for someone under 3 years.
June 2026 – Top Gross Take Home for Juniors
Employee C:
Join Date: 11/08/2025
Gross Take Home: 60842
Not bad for someone under 3 years.
Employee D:
Join Date: 01/06/2023
Gross Take Home: 45930
Not bad for someone under 3 years.
This is just a random month. Some months may be higher. Some lower.
Consistency
The best way to have a consistent income is to do consistently great work. There is no other way.
if you wish to learn more about steel detailing, and Tekla. Video by Ben Koshy.
For more details about my work. If you’re interested in Tek1 to do your steel detailing, please email: koshy@tek1.com.au with details about your project and a description of your goals / objective.
The documentation is perfectly opaque. As expected. What is the X and Y and Z axis in relation to a beam?
Easy. Check the picture.
Furthermore, now you also know what “Rotation” means in relation to a beam. Tekla does this because it is difficult for humans to define a beam using a change of basic matrix.
If you wanna waste many hours wondering why your code doesn’t work – try the Tekla API!
Here is a note for the benefit of the public – where they mutate objects – which SHOULD NOT be mutated. Perhaps they have their own reasons, but the general boy-scount principle(s) should apply:
The principle of LEAST surprise, and
Leave things AS YOU FOUND THEM.
They voilate both, IMO:
Working with the Tekla API is just unecessarily difficult!
Checkout Tek1’s blog posts for more content on the Tekla Open API.
If you need to hire us to do your Tekla API work, please send us your proposal to koshy@tek1.com.au
The documentation of the Tekla API – IMO is inadequate. That is why we need supplemental explanations and code samples.
Here is another example that hopefully benefits the community.
I have written a bunch of extension methods (Tekla.ExtensionMethods) that would hopefully simplify a lot of the headaches associated with using the API. This is already published as an Open Source project under an MIT license and is available on Nuget. As of 2026-06-25 it is released under an alpha release – meaning that the API might change drastically.
Checkout Tek1’s blog posts for more content on the Tekla Open API.
If you need to hire us to do your Tekla API work, please send us your proposal to koshy@tek1.com.au
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