Re: Per Hour Charge

["Russell Brill" <russwbrill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You make the customer pay for your "Profit", YOU'VE GOT NERVE :-))

"Everywhere Man" <alarminstall@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> $15 to $40 is what the employee grosses but nowhere near the rate the
> customer is charged. You need to add liability, workman's comp, rent,
> telephone, electric, equipment, unemployment insurance, vehicle
> insurance, gas, tolls, parking, auto repairs, etc etc etc, and then
> that dreaded thing called PROFIT.
>
> Trying to go the hourly rate avenue will always cost you more. Offer
> someone an hourly wage and they will be there forever.
> Pay someone by the job and you'll have a hard time remembering what
> they looked like because they will be gone before you know it.
>
> Think of it this way......if attorneys charged by the case rather than
> by the hour we wouldn't know Johnny Cochran from Johnny Walker, F.Lee
> Bailey from Beetle Bailey, or Doug Rader from Robert bAss (anyone
> notice the vast amount of disturbing similarities between those two?).
>
>
> rqo wrote:
>> I'm curious as to the average "per hour" charge on a CCTV install?  Is it
>> by
>> the individual job or is it by the complexity, etc.?
>>
>> Is that a legitimate question to ask an installer, "How much do you
>> charge
>> per hour?", or is that just too open ended a question.
>>
>> My reasons for asking are for my own knowledge.  After internet searches
>> on
>> most "per hour" occupations, this one shows up as anywhere from $15 to
>> $40
>> per hour.  Is that about average for an installer?
>>
>> Is there a different charge just to run cable?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> rqo
>