My services were billed at hundreds tooOriginally posted by: acemcmac
I've billed as high as $120/hr
22 years old,Originally posted by: TechnoPro
Do you truly believe that people can support themselves on $10 an hour? Or $10 per job? How old are you?Originally posted by: KrillBee
ha, i do work for friends sometimes and their parents, and only charge maybe 10 bucks for labor (usually they bring their computer to my house and it only takes half an hour to fix or so) and of course i charge them for parts
maybe i should be more serious about what i charge and everything. there is definately money to be made doing this, since people charge WAY too much for this sort of thing.
$50 an hour I think is too much, I mean computers require no real tough manual labor. When people watch me work, they see how computers actually are pretty simple if you care to pop open the hood. As long as they pay for the gas and my time driving out, and pay me what say a basic tech in a business earns per hour, then I'm happy. (I figure if most jobs take half an hour, and i get 10 bucks for labor, then im basically making $20 per hour)
I cant believe that there are places that charge up to $70 or $100 an hour. I mean this is a computer that we are working on here, not a frickin car! lol. I think computers are way easier to work on than cars (not as dirty, not as painful to the body, not as risky, etc) to charge $100 per hour for computer tech labor is insane.
dang, maybe i should just be a private tech and make a living that way, lol.Originally posted by: TreyRandom
The company I work for charges from $100 to $125 per hour for my services... and we've got so much business, we don't have enough techs to handle it all.
depends on if you are anygood at what you do....Originally posted by: ruffilb
I've always charged $20 an hour, and I've been doing this since I was 12 or 13. It seemed like a lot of money then, but I'm older now (although still not working).
How much do you all charge for your IT services? (Note, I almost always drive over and do the work there)
People can afford it because loss of business or productivity is often worse than not paying for the services of a competent professional. Further, paying someone to screw everything up at $50 an hour and then paying someone to "unscrew" it all for $125 an hour is worse than simply paying someone $125 an hour to do it right the first time. And yes, that sort of thing happens quite often - that's how we end up getting more and more business... companies who are unhappy with crappy service from their regular, cheap techs and become amazed after they see the difference in service that they can get from a quality tech.Originally posted by: KrillBee
dang, maybe i should just be a private tech and make a living that way, lol.Originally posted by: TreyRandom
The company I work for charges from $100 to $125 per hour for my services... and we've got so much business, we don't have enough techs to handle it all.
how can people afford to pay $150 an hour for tech work? Thats about a third of the price of a new computer!
are you doing more than just swapping hardware and windows related stuff?
I mean if you come out to troubleshoot a really expensive server, and a software glitch or something, i guess i could understand that a lot then.
but please people, dont tell me that home users are willing to pay 100+ per hour, are they?
You can find car labor for cheaper than that!
When I started off doing computer consulting, it was 100% for home users. Simple things like taking the PC out of the box and setting it up, loading programs, training the user, etc. Indeed for someone technically savvy, these are ridiculously simple tasks, so the thought of commanding a premium wage might seem bizzare or unfair. That is a mental block that prevents an individual from wealth. It's like a statement "I am only worth so much..." Bvllshit.Originally posted by: KrillBee
dang, maybe i should just be a private tech and make a living that way, lol.
how can people afford to pay $150 an hour for tech work? Thats about a third of the price of a new computer!
are you doing more than just swapping hardware and windows related stuff?
I mean if you come out to troubleshoot a really expensive server, and a software glitch or something, i guess i could understand that a lot then.
but please people, dont tell me that home users are willing to pay 100+ per hour, are they?
You can find car labor for cheaper than that!
I've never had someone dissatisfied...Originally posted by: JEDIYoda
depends on if you are anygood at what you do....Originally posted by: ruffilb
I've always charged $20 an hour, and I've been doing this since I was 12 or 13. It seemed like a lot of money then, but I'm older now (although still not working).
How much do you all charge for your IT services? (Note, I almost always drive over and do the work there)