Just curious as to some idea of what you find people will cough up for equipment repair.
I got a surprise last year when Shuttlesound (a UK pro-audio distributor) informed me that they charge £35 (IIRC) per 'unit of labour'. The unit in question was 1/4 hr !
Graham
My company charges $150USD per hour for my repair labor. Wish I got even HALF of that...
equipment
**Servicing almost anything but 'mission-critical' equipment (robotics controls for a manufacturing plant, for instance) is a mug's game. Back when I started to service professionally in my own business (1980) I was charging AUS$25.00/hour. Allowing for inflation, I should be charging around $180.00/hour today. The industry standard is more $80.00/hour. That is all I can legitemately charge to service domestic/pro equipment. Add to that, the incredibly low cost of most products now (a client delivered a Chinese made, 250 W/ch pro amp for service - he paid AUS$450.00 new for it), it is not worth servicing a large number of products that cross my bench. It's not going to get any better and it'll be quite some time before I can afford a case of Veuve Cliquot (vintage) again. The best I can mange is the odd bottle of non-vintage.Time to find a new career.
Trevor Wilson
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For domestic equipment work, I charge a flat rate to trade of £18 per job. That mostly equates to an hourly rate of between £18 and £36. If it looks like it's going to exceed an hour by much more than a few minutes, then it goes on quote after I've spent about a half hour on it. If it doesn't go ahead at the quoted price, then a flat charge of £10 trade is made. I leave it to the shops to hold the spares accounts and to handle ordering the spares. That way, it's not my money tied up in spares accounts, and the shops can make an additional markup on them if they wish. Overall, it works very well like that, so long as you are busy. It allows the shops who are supplying me with the work, to charge a fixed rate plus parts, and to take a non returnable 'investigation' deposit from the customer. For 'commercial' work, I charge about four times that amount.
Arfa
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