Service Calls and Omar Khayyam [RE-wrenches]

[Jerry Caldwell]

It is typical in the San Francisco bay area to charge
$60 - $80 per hour for service calls.

~Jerry

--- Kirk Herander <kirk at vtsolar.com> wrote:
> $105 an hour? That's hard to believe. Labor rates in
> VT are in the $30 -
> $45 an hour range.
> 
> Kirk
> 
> "Bob Ellison, Alternative Energy Systems" wrote:
> > 
> > My god, I live in the wrong end of the country,
> > I have had people hang up on me when I tell them
> 25.00 an hour, and tell
> > them that I charge drive time to the site. Some
> are 3-4 hours away.
> > 
> 
> > Bob
> > 
> > RE. Ellison
> > Supplier of;
> > Diesel Generators &
> > Alternative Energy Systems & Supplies
> > 34642 Countryman Road
> > Theresa, NY. USA
> >                               13691-2076
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:   Joel Davidson
> [mailto:joeldavidson at earthlink.net]
> > Sent:   Monday, May 28, 2001 12:24 PM
> > To:     RE-wrenches at topica.com
> > Subject:        Re: Service Calls and Omar Khayyam
> [RE-wrenches]
> > 
> > These rates are about the same as here in southern
> California and very fair.
> > 
> > 
> > tom wrote:
> > If someone calls for service or help on a system
> someone else installed or
> > an old system out of warranty I charge $65 total
> drive time and $105 an hour
> > on site to diagnosis and give them an estimate. 
> If I can fix the problem on
> > the spot the $105 is credited toward labor.  The
> $105 counts toward the
> > first hour labor on a future service call if they
> accept my quote to fix
> > their system.
> 
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