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Whinge! Was Leylandii
"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message ... The message from "bnd777" contains these words: Boy is the cost of living cheap in your area Quote down south would be at least £100 Per hour? £4,000 per week, £200,000 per year? No wonder you can't get enough teachers and nurses down there, they must be leaving the profession in droves to qualify as tree fellers. Janet Quoting time, Office admin time, travelling time, vehicle running costs, vehicle depreciation, dead time between jobs, rained off time, cost of equipment, cost of disposal, cost of public liability insurance, professional indemnity insurance, equipment insurance, sickness insurance, pension plan...................... £15/hour sounds astonishingly cheap! Jobbing contractors will have billable hours of 50-75% of their working time. £15/hour for 1850 working hours (normal employed working time) x 75% = £20,800 top line income before any business costs are taken out. About 6 years ago, I was doing jobbing work in Wimbledon Village and charging £10/hour to a client in 1.5 acre garden, 6/8 bed house in the centre of the village. (Value then??? £5M??) They went off for a weekend and came back telling me that their "friends in the country only pay £4/hour for their gardener", and clearly expected me to reduce my rates : Our relationship did not survive very long.... about 30 seconds! Why is it that because hobby gardeners do it for love in their own garden so many of them expect to pay a pittance when they have work done for them? pk |
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