u/Old_Money_3845

Just got brought on with an inland company and after my 10 day trial period ill need to negotiate my hourly rate, I don't want to ask for too much money but I also don't want to undersell myself. I have next to no diving experience out of school but Los Angles is also a very expensive place to live, if anyone who has worked in the area knows what I should be shooting for any advice would be super helpful. I'm pretty sure they work around 60-80 hour weeks but I'm pretty much clueless about what is good pay or not. Thanks

I am fresh out of dive school with my ADCI cert and just got my IMCA DMT cert which I was expecting to hep me find a job. I would prefer to go the inland route but really I'm just trying to follow the money. It doest seem like my DMT is helpful in the inland job market whatsoever, do I need to go offshore for that to mean anything or what do I need to be doing differently. All I have gotten is offers from companies that offer some abysmal pay with a lot of them either not willing to dive me without me buying my own hat or companies that I hear only horror stories about after doing a little research. If anyone knows somewhere in need of DMTs or just any advice would be really helpful.