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Jesus christ, I'm an electrician, that's 90 second job that takes $4 in parts. Who the fuck is charging $2.75 per second to change an outlet!
Your boss.
The $80 you get for your time is your cut.
I'd unionize.
Truthfully I'm surprised they even hired out an electrician for that. General handyman can replace an outlet.
As a non-proffessional I've replaced outlets in my own house. It took me 20 minutes for the first one. Now it takes about 10, but that because I triple check everything and go slow
The truck roll is the expensive part.
Office expenses and office staff, too. I worked for a particular industry that used software that we plugged in monthly expenses, annual, and semiannual, including payroll, and it gave us back prices for individual screws that would bug your eyes from your head to also cover a nominal profit (about 15%), and unexpected expenses like insurance rate hikes for liability insurance, workers' comp, broken equipment, etc. So that $0.30 screw suddenly became $6.
A small job like that would charge a minimum of an hour, $4 for a receptacle, $30 for a gfi. We're looking at a $150 to $200 job.
Drive to my house and I will pay you $4
A local mechanic wanted $25 for an oil change, after I bought the oil and filters. I ended up taking it to the other shop and getting a fully synthetic change for $7 less than the local guy, if I had purchased conventional oil, and that's not including disposal cost.
$25 seems entirely fair for that
but it also sounds like oil changes are incredibly cheap where you are. a cheap synthetic change around here is $70
It's a 10 minute job, 15 at most. If I'd had ramps and my tools that were stolen, I would have done it myself. So I paid less, got a name brand oil and filter without having to shop for it, no disposal fee, for a 20 minute drive. I also had an appointment and was in and out in about 20 minutes, including talking with the shop owner, their family, and the shop fur babies, which my own fur baby got to enjoy.
15 minute job, plus talking to you, doing the books, having the bay taken up, having the tools and equipment...
people deserve to be paid for their work
Nah, this is a backyard guy.
Honestly crazy that an old blown neutral ended up a $32k+ lawsuit.