The average starting wage of an apprentice is about 50% of a journey worker's rate of pay. Programs are required to progressively increase the apprentices wages provided the on-the-job training and school performance is satisfactory and in accordance with apprenticeship committee.
The Aleutian Trench formed as the Pacific Plate converged with the North American Plate forcing the Pacific's oceanic plate into the mantle because the Pacific Plate is denser than the North American Plate. The Aleutian Trench and other Trenches formed a subduction zone by converging with other plate tectonics.
The Pacific plate is subducting beneath the Philippine Sea plate to the east while the west/northwestern part of the Philippine Sea plate is subducting beneath the continental Eurasian plate. There are shorter boundaries of the Philippine Sea plate with the Okhtosk plate to the north, and the Australian plate to the south. The relative plate motions and boundaries are all clearly depicted in Figure 1.