I charge Au $75 incl. Working from my workshop at home, and i am as cheap as it gets over here. It would feel rude charging any more, as i have next to no overheads
bjmh,
Oct 8, 1:33pm
one man band in central north Is. $70 plus. I have been here since Moa's roamed our street so its a lot easier to be in business. i would hate to try and start a workshop now with all the compliance costs.The wof changes are starting to show .
cammey,
Oct 8, 1:41pm
We try and avoid a hourly rate charge, preferring to quote for jobs without going down that path. (Actually, we simply don't give one). The reason is, we have invested heavily in technology, we have great tools and test jigs, and have had test software written. So we are much much faster than the guy with a test lamp and pie in his beard. He will take twice as long to do the job or more. But we want to make a return on the investment we have made in plant and equipment, so we have to charge 3x what he does on an hourly basis.
I think hourly rates distort the market. They efficient guy with great tools will do the job faster and thus get paid less. IMHO the answer is charge a book rate for jobs, regardless of the actual time you take.
lookoutas,
Oct 8, 11:45pm
They wouldn't be in the street if ya didn't have grass growing down the middle. I think that cammey guy must have passed your way.
Hope the pie tasted good.
alfred011,
Oct 9, 3:55am
I saw an invoice for a repair took less than 8 hrs just had labour $950 no time shown a lot a companies rip the shit out of customers that company wont be doing any more work for them.
gastirling,
Oct 9, 4:21am
One man band $60 +gst at this end of the world, (In'gill).
zooki007,
Oct 9, 5:05am
Dealership I work at charges $108incl GST /hr. Lease companies only get 10% discount on parts and labour.
mgmad,
Oct 9, 7:57am
That's fine if you are doing only a few different sorts of jobs quite often. Beyond servicing and one or two other regular maintenance jobs, we will seldom do the same thing twice. There's no other way for us to charge that out.
bjmh,
Oct 9, 4:05pm
jeez lookoutas we got it all wrong.When we invested heavily years ago organizing our respective business's . we should have been charging 3 times as much,local pies are shite and I never could grow a decent beard. got a test light though.
kcc55a,
Oct 9, 8:24pm
I think he does his work for a couple of loaves of bread and some fish.
carclan,
Oct 9, 11:30pm
The engineers that maintain the airplane I fly only charge $85.00 per hour.
alfred011,
Oct 10, 2:56am
Only one parts fitter was doing the job.
alfred011,
Oct 10, 4:19am
Just got a reconditioned diesel injector pump back from diesel shop that is specialist work with hi tech test benches etc he only charged $102 an hour.
billyfieldman,
Oct 10, 8:36pm
The mechanic I recently used charged $70 + gst per hour.
vtecnet,
Oct 11, 11:02pm
$69 + GST is cheap Zeph, my mechanic also charges that rate, but yeah people still complain, but don't mind their IT Tech charging them $120 + gst an hour (sigh). to do basic things to their Computer which anyone can do by searching on google :)
helsbels2,
Oct 12, 12:16am
We got the MTA data which showed we were below average at $70 plus. Although I do believe this gets distorted by by the dealers charging over $100. We put ours up to $75 plus and not one person said anything. We now charge random one off $80 plus and trade and regular customers $75 plus. All our supplier prices have gone up as well as technician wages so we had to too.
parcelman,
Jan 14, 7:44pm
I m a 5 Vehicle fleet doing 225000 Km Year. Levin Mitsubishi $65 + GST. Been Using Them for years. Good mechanics and have no problems when they put there hourly rate up as only Modestly. Spend average of $1000 monthly so not big but not 2 be sneezed at either
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