An apprentice is someone who is learning a trade while working under the guidance of skilled workers called journeyman. Apprenticeship is on-the-job training. You earn while you learn and are paid a wage from the first day you become an apprentice. Today, women are among those training as millwright apprentices, too. Beginning apprentices usually start at about half the journeyman rate of pay. But your wages will increase periodically, usually every six months, until you reach the full journeyman's scale at the end of the apprenticeship period. In most cases the length of your apprenticeship is four years, usually with no cost to you for the training.

What a bargain!