£ 35 PER HOUR LABOUR COST !!!!!

[Big_Spark]

£35 an Hour is average outside London, however it is a LOT more than Electricians Charge and we regularly get accused of earning the most.

I actually have to EARN £22.67 an Hour just to break even (including my wages), so to make a profit I HAVE to charge more than that.

 

[AdamW]

Also there is the longterm view of the limit on what you can earn.

In a profession, you get paid considerably more if you have more experience. In a trade, you can only get paid what people are prepared to pay. If a plumber decided "Right, I'm 50, I know everything about plumbing, at the top of my game, therefore I deserve £120K a year therefore I will charge £72 plus overheads and VAT per hour, let's call it £110 an hour", he will find himself chronically short on work.

However, in a professional job (by which I mean one who deals with paper more than plumbing, with the exception of urologists), if you work hard, have the right breaks, the sky is the limit.

 

[PEDANTICVINDICTIVEMAN]

Whats a brothel, a big bowl of soup !

 

[B.O.B DOLE]

Whats a brothel, a big bowl of soup !

YEAP and is very nice and juicy with bread dip.

 

[ollski]

my solicitor is 140 an hour + vat, my audi garage are 90 an hour + vat, my bank charge me 30 to send me a preprinted letter to tell me something I already know....overall I think you got a bargain, my 'mates rates' aren't much less than that!

 

[JPC]

thats it....tomorrow in goes an ad as a solicitor.......
they wont know an different...... take their (punters) money and run...and threaten them with court (and say big words) if they dont pay...

INFACT LETS CHARGE FOR THESE REPLIES.....

 

[Agile]

I have been employing a solicitor at £260 + vat for about 20 hours.

I have just done a job for ( another ) solicitor for about £15 per hour when travelling time is taken into account.

Surely £35 per hour on site is pretty cheap? I spent about FOUR hours unpaid travelling across London today.

Tony

 

[AdamW]

I spent about FOUR hours unpaid travelling across London today.

That must have been about 2 miles, eh?

 

[securespark]

I got a solicitor to make two phone calls.....

£352.50...and this is the total after I phoned him to insist he reduce his charges or else I would take him to court for excessive charges.

PMSL - threatening to take a solicitor to court and getting a result - that must be a first

Nope!

Done it before when a solicitor client took ages to pay bill - it worked then, too!!

 

[confidentincompetent]

I recently had to relace warped plasterboard and redec after a cylinder leak. The woman said the chap was very quick and only took 3 hrs (including getting cylinder)
She showed me the bill £785.00 mind you thet does include the vat