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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Grafters Cleaning Services on June 16, 2005, 06:15:42 pm
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thought this might be an interesting subject if it hasn't been covered before WHAT IS YOUR HIGHEST PAID JOB?
now i know that some will run into thousands but mine is (domestic) £20 for a 3 bed semi and (commercial) £100 for a rest home
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£110 for an office -
£25 domestic, as from this morning £100!! ;D
BTW - How's the baby Jay ?
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£180 Commercial, £110 domestic (it is a big house). But who cares, I'm off on holiday for a week tomorrow.
Cheers
Rob
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Looks like I'm well under charging lol.
mines 10 pound for domestic (a farm house) Usually 3.50 for a normal sized 3 bed semi.
35 pound for Commercial (block of flats, 8 flats in total)
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I would charge at least £15 for a three bed semi. On a similar tack, what is your lowest price job? Mine is £8 it's a bungalow and it takes no longer than 15 minutes. One of the few jobs I still do with a Squegee.
Cheers
Rob
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old advice but double your semi prices...at the very least go for a minimum £6.00 per house. You will lose some but earn more for less work...the spare time on your hands, you go out and canvass for more semis at £7.00 a clean.
£5 a flat is ok.
£3.50 a semi?? That is seriously udervaluing your work.
I am stunned mate...honestly!!
I have been out today carding and canvassing a road of semis in my area...got a £12 because they had an extension and next door neighbour got the OAP discount of £8...she was thrilled.
Yesterday, priced and did straightaway, 2 reasonable sized detached for £15 each...both poled with WFP...both owners happy and both done in 1 hour.
Stick with the advice on here regarding pricing...no matter where you live...I`m in Liverpool...
My highest is £35 per month for a big detached...45 minutes.
Semis from £6.00 to £15.00 depending on extensions/conservatories etc.
Detached start at £15 and go up to £35.
Be confident and lets drag the publics image of us into the millenium!!!
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Commercial (school) 300 quid.
Domestic 35 quid.
Even I charge a min of 5.50 for a 3 bed - semi.
Justin
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I bought the round from my old boss and he used to charge 3 quid. When he sold it to me first thing I did was put it up to 3.50. It wasn't till i came onto this site that I realised how under priced the work is by me. I know of another 3 window cleaners who are charging the same as me and one who's charging 2.50 per house. I can't tell my customers that I'm gonna double the prices they'd all go :o
I'm looking for more commercial and rural work looks like I'm gonna have to travel out the area to get better paid work.
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smallest 35 pounds per clean, biggest 20k per clean
Andy
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thought this might be an interesting subject if it hasn't been covered before WHAT IS YOUR HIGHEST PAID JOB?
now i know that some will run into thousands but mine is (domestic) £20 for a 3 bed semi and (commercial) £100 for a rest home
My highest are £99 for a commercial job and £70 for a domestic.
My lowest paid job is £5. I don't take on anything less than £10 these days but I didn't feel that I could impose that minimum fee onto existing customers.
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Domestic £240 every 2 weeks. :)
Roy
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at the moment 45 domestic comercial 10 shop front
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£300 commercial a setup of 2 blocks of flats every other month. Highest priced domestic is £150 for one house every month. Its an all day job in & out. Nice customers, good payers. These jobs help me to keep going.
Steveyboy
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£47 domestic and £70 commercial cheapest £6 (ups only) domestic £30 commercial
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£330 commercial
£30 domestic
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Poleman,
£20k PER clean..!!!
what on earth is that job?? and how often!!!
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£110 for an office - £25 domestic
BTW - How's the baby Jay ?
the baby's doing fine thanx jon, putting on eight as we speak
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i must say i did'nt expect the thread to get so many replies and it's interesting to see the different price structures, as for my lowest price i have to confess that i do 33 oap flats @ £3-00 each, been doing them for a while now and i ain't got the heart to put them up but having said that i can do all 33 (all in a row bang bang) in 2 and half hours so i guess £99 for that time is'nt too bad
jay
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£13 for a largish end terrace with 6 windows plus 2 bays.
Cheapest is £3.50 for 2 windows plus a fanlight, in a terraced house fronting the road; stands right on the edge of the pavement in a quiet street in Stafford.
An odd place, got two floors at the front, but only a ground floor at the back - the owner does the back, [glass in the door plus a french window].
Both houses done once monthly - got no commercial, I'm a part-time operation, domestic only.
Baldeagle in Staffordshire.
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£15 for a pub is my biggest earner
old advice but double your semi prices...at the very least go for a minimum £6.00 per house. You will lose some but earn more for less work...the spare time on your hands, you go out and canvass for more semis at £7.00 a clean.
£5 a flat is ok.
£3.50 a semi?? That is seriously udervaluing your work.
I am stunned mate...honestly!!
I have been out today carding and canvassing a road of semis in my area...got a £12 because they had an extension and next door neighbour got the OAP discount of £8...she was thrilled.
Yesterday, priced and did straightaway, 2 reasonable sized detached for £15 each...both poled with WFP...both owners happy and both done in 1 hour.
Stick with the advice on here regarding pricing...no matter where you live...I`m in Liverpool...
My highest is £35 per month for a big detached...45 minutes.
Semis from £6.00 to £15.00 depending on extensions/conservatories etc.
Detached start at £15 and go up to £35.
Be confident and lets drag the publics image of us into the millenium!!!
i live in a small village every other village or town in the area is all sewn up,so effectively there is not much work out there to canvass,saying that ,there is a new nursing home opening up next month near me ,i will go tommorow and submitt my quote,but i think i will keep it less than it is really worth to try and secure it as it would be a regular income
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Don`t under price zeusjzmin just to get work you will regret it later
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£100.00 council office £300 racing team office £1,000 food facrctory office lots of blocks of flats from £65-400 largest house £170.00 smallest 15 dont do anything under this
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Hi Guys/Gals
new to this forum so hello to all.
most expensive 40.00 for a council building wfp all high windows 45 mins work if i had more like that i would be a rich and happy man. ;D
lowest 4.00 small 3 bed semi old dears i curse every month i do them but they are all nice people no fussing around 10 min jobs >:(
i will have to put my prices up soon
darren...............
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Highest domestic - £40 but it's insides too.
Highest commercial - £20 pub.
Used to do one house for Ian at £90, but it was once a year and in and out of small georgians!
Worse still, inside of conservatory roof. Green water in the hair! >:(
At least it could be done in 3 hours...
Roger.
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Our best paying job is £4 for one shop window and a door in between 2 large commercial jobs. It takes under 90 seconds.
Our best paying resindentual job is £90 for about an hours work for 3 of us although to start with it took over 2 hours.
The best paying commercial job we now have is £320 for 3 to 4 hours work for 3 of us although it is a short term contract - 5 or 6 months. It's doing all the windows/windscreens on loads of industrial diggers, jcb's, portacabins, etc that are used for a big renovation job in a marina so they get seriously covered in salt every week.
The big problem is they have to be done before work starts every Monday at 9am.
It does me in being up that early.
Cheers
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£20 for me town houses (40 minutes) min domestic charge £10
£8 for a shop - 15 min job -
going wfp and looking for some modest commercials :D
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Smallest £25.00
largest job ever £55,000 one off clean ;D
unfortunatly that one only comes up every few years, I would like that one every month!
Many at £5000 to £20,000 they are not regular :(.
Average monthly job £150.00 -£250,00
Largest monthly job £1,400.
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Poleman,
£20k PER clean..!!!
what on earth is that job?? and how often!!!
Sorry not going to give out the company name or details, for commercial resons because its a open forum, and any one local to me can read and then phone the company and get the work, and I would be gutted, and I am sure you would be, we do start the next clean next month so your more than welcome to come down and see my team at work, poles cherry pickers and abseiling window cleaners.
Andy
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My highest paid job was an account with Wilsonart International.
We did 12 buildings. $3500.00 per month; and none of the buildings were really big; 3 second story jobs; the rest easy to reach; This was 5 years ago.
My total contract pay out was $1700.00 so it was nice to clear the $1800.00 each month.
The company was bought out by a foreign company and they did away with a lot of job slots so some guys that were about to retire took over some maintenance jobs (such as mine )in order to finish their years to reach retirement status.
I understood; hated to loose that account . I did Nextel until March of this year. $1000. per cleaning. A nationwide janitorial chain took over the contract when mine expired and included the windows with their janitorial price.
I'll bet they are at a loss regarding the windows; specialty but could be done in one day with 2 people busting buns. We did the windows every 3 months.
I think I may call them in a few months, but it is a trend these days; janitorial says "we will include the windows'. Ends up with minimum wage workers useing paper towels and windex, or similar.
To those who only look at the bottom line; they will receive the bottom service.
Doing residences over here is lucrative. The trick is to keep folks on a call up calender because the typical schedule is each 6 months in and out.
The average cost is $250- $400.00 per; proper management will keep every week full of houses; the key is PROPER MANAGEMENT!
That is the direction I am going in because over here the housing industry is bursting!
Tends to be more competition in commercial. Having been in business for 25 years I have a great list of customers and the yellow pages is a blessing for me.
WORK SMART; NOT HARD. I work 4 days/week. Soon will be 3. PROPER MANAGEMENT; people are difficult but I like management better than bun busting. Sometimes I get ticked off at my workers but then I remember how wonderful my job is when I am out on the lake.
Keep on keeping on in this business; it is a hidden goldmine!
Hugs,
Debbie :-*
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£50,000 for abseiling a load of apartments in city centre. Tidy
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on my first post i put down my highest domestic as £20,
this has now changed as i picked up a new job yesterday priced at £30
jay
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Hi Grafters
Well done. That first step for the higher priced stuff was, I found, so difficult.
Hi Texas
Still busting your buns then.
Good to hear from you again.
Hugs etc
Ross
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poleman,
not details...just a pen picture..eg: "5 storey building with 500 windows..."
Amazing to see how people progress from building up a round to quoting and doing jobs of that size... ;)
good on ya and best wishes ;D
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Mine has to be Joseph Egbujor`s windows. I can`t say how much.
Gerry.
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poleman..
it`s not the one on front of PWC magazine is it...??
do you overhead rinse the glass at that height or just leave brush in situ. at top of glass and let water run down glass to rinse?
I would love to be doing jobs of that magnitude in the future but have no idea how you would go about securing a deal of that size...quoting, employing staff, health and safety...!!! ???
As I said...good on ya!!! ;D
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my best so far is £75 (domestic) 23 windows and garage door
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£110 for an office - £25 domestic, as from this morning £100!! ;D
BTW - How's the baby Jay ?
Just landed a hotel for £510 per month 8) ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D 8)
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Currently ( Monday till Friday minimum) on a substantial clean up at £500 per day and there will be additional work next week.
Rob ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Rob,
i'm free sat/sun if needed
Dave
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Although I've not been trading too long, commercially mine's £320 and residentially it's £35 every 4 weeks. I picked-up a customer the other day as they'd recently got rid of their previous w/c for charging £32 to do a 3-bed house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can't believe they employed him for 5 months before they realised!!!
I aint, cheap...but I'm certainly not that expensive. It only took me 30 minutes to do all window/frames and then I was taking my time!!
Horses for courses!
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75pence for a house and £10 fore a bank
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75pence for a house and £10 fore a bank
I've just read some of your back posts - shocked at what I just saw - you're having a 'larf'.
Those were the prices when you first started in 1923.
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no 1973 prices
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no 1973 prices
I was four then! I remember our window cleaner used to charge my Mum 50p, probably about 1975(ish) for a three bedroomed house - easy access all round.
He was a big fat bloke, loads of tatoos, didn't drive and carried his wooden ladders over his shoulder, and worked all down our street. He lived close-by.
He used a sponge to wet the windows and then squeegied. I remember being facinated by the squeegie action. It looked fun - when you're six years old. Now, on occassion I'll give an interested child a 'go' on a patio door if their Mum says it's okay.
He never came during the winter months. I haven't a clue what he did then. I think it was a case of some extra beer money!
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i was 19 and it was my first year cleaning windows things have changed a lot since then.semi retired now just clean windows partime now
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commercial ,£200 a week
domestic £220 1 mth
Ive got a lot of jobs like this. I use wfp and old style.
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For me it is really 4 offices all next door to one another (or as good as) done monthly.
3 of them are £60 each, the other is £50, start 8.30am, finish 12pm.
I do have a separate £75 office-45 mins (monthly)
Domestic? £120, in & out, 4 hours...........Once a year! :'(
Regards,
Ian
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Only been going a few weeks but highest so far is two bedroom semi with 'lean to' type conservatory, inside and out for £60. Lowest is £3.50 for 2 front windows and 1 side window for an old dear. Mind you one customer suffers from short term memory loss. At the last clean she asked me at least 10 times if I had been paid, I could have said no and got £140 for the job :-)).
Bit off topic but I'm cleaning a 3 bedroom semi for £15.
Front:
2 (up) and 2 smallish bays (down)
Side:
1 bathroom window (up), 1 dining room window, 1 front door with side glass and 2 kitchen windows.
Rear:
1 bedroom window, 1 bathroom window (up), 2 patio doors, 1 kitchen window, 1 kitchen door, 1 utility room window and 1 garage window (down)
Frames and cills get cleaned as well. The job takes me hour and a 30 minutes without stopping. (timed myself yesterday). Don't know whether I'm spending too much time cleaning the frames or my squeegy technique needs tweaking as I seem to have a bit of mess to clean up after. I wished I'd gone in at £22.50 + or am I doing something wrong?
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Steve,
Couple of points: First off you are a newbie, therefore you are going to be very slow, it'll take several months to be really cracking along at a good pace. Now some may get up to speed quicker, and that helps if you are working alongside an experienced pro who can correct and help with technique.
Second point; If this is the first time clean for this house, and you are fastidiously cleaning all of the frames, then it is gonig to take an awful lot longer than subsequent regular cleans.
Third point is price, now if these are UPVC windows, I would say that the price isn't all that far off the mark, it sounds like a house that would take about 25 minutes for one of us window cleaners that have been doing it for donkeys years :-\ But that wouldn't include a thorough clean of the frames.
On repeat cleans the frames will only need a quick wipe over with a clean, damp scrim, so should only add 10 mins or so to the job.
In my area, considering you are using trad methods, windows + frames?....Mmm, maybe £3 more cos of the frames...hard to say without seeing some photo's.
When I took on lads, it would take them at least 3 months of solid work before they were working at a reasonable pace, th begin with, during the first 2 or 3 weeks I would be cleaning 3 windows to their one!
So you will get much, much quicker!!
regards,
Ian.
Oh, on reading the replies on page 2 I see roger (squeaky Clean) Mentioned a £90.00 account, which is the £120.00 account I also mentioned. he claims 3 hours...yeah, right! Lol I'll accept 4 hours! I know cos I did it Yesterday (wednesday 14th)
Rog is a bit quicker than me with Trad stuff, but that was made up with doing the outside with WFP.
Inside is a nightmare, as is the inside of the conservatory, hence the price, but still good money for a mornings work ;)
Regards,
Ian
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Oh, on reading the replies on page 2 I see roger (squeaky Clean) Mentioned a £90.00 account, which is the £120.00 account I also mentioned. he claims 3 hours...yeah, right! Lol I'll accept 4 hours! I know cos I did it Yesterday
Alright. I'll settle for 3 and half hours. Definately done before 1pm!
Highest I've got now is 20quid. :'(
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smallest 19.50,biggest 48k per year (4000 a month).
Daniel
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Only been going a few weeks but highest so far is two bedroom semi with 'lean to' type conservatory, inside and out for £60. Lowest is £3.50 for 2 front windows and 1 side window for an old dear. Mind you one customer suffers from short term memory loss. At the last clean she asked me at least 10 times if I had been paid, I could have said no and got £140 for the job :-)).
Bit off topic but I'm cleaning a 3 bedroom semi for £15.
Front:
2 (up) and 2 smallish bays (down)
Side:
1 bathroom window (up), 1 dining room window, 1 front door with side glass and 2 kitchen windows.
Rear:
1 bedroom window, 1 bathroom window (up), 2 patio doors, 1 kitchen window, 1 kitchen door, 1 utility room window and 1 garage window (down)
Frames and cills get cleaned as well. The job takes me hour and a 30 minutes without stopping. (timed myself yesterday). Don't know whether I'm spending too much time cleaning the frames or my squeegy technique needs tweaking as I seem to have a bit of mess to clean up after. I wished I'd gone in at £22.50 + or am I doing something wrong?
Agree with all Ian said.
You're not doing anything wrong Dave, price is spot on I think for time it takes.
You will get quicker then your money automatically goes up cos you do more at the same price you are now charging.
I'm in Norfolk too and, without looking at the job I would have said £20-£25 is good enough so you are spot on. Keep it up
Pj
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smallest 19.50,biggest 48k per year (4000 a month).
Daniel
Crickey, what's the 48k a year job? How many lads and how long?
I'm glad I don't have your tax bill.
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Hi Daniel
Was that you or your lot doing the hotels along Brighton Seafront today?
If it was that must be a huge contract.
Cheers
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Ross no that wasnt us mate brighton a little out of my way, Tosh its a LA contract ive got 4 on the books at the mo each 1 comin down in price a time with the lowest at 24k,there is a team of 9 inc me and ive got another 3/4 lads i use as an when,and your right about the VAT/TAX etc its a pain but aslong as you add VAT to your price and dont go spendin it instead of givin to them you should be ok,but it is hard at the end of every qrt to hand over the dosh but the interest charges are ridiculous so i try and have it for them.
Daniel
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Hi Daniel
I thought it had the same name but as your in Wrexham... Also, they used exactly the same super high cherry picker as on your website.
As for the best paying work...
Our besting paying is £2. It is a weekly window of a shop in between other commercial jobs.
It takes about 30 seconds or less and they pay monthly (£8) by direct debit. I would be happy with loads more like that.
Cheers
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Highest paid?
Best paid?
I'm still waiting....It could always be better
I'm waiting for the Prince of Brunai to pay for me tofly over to polish his chandaliers
Pj
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£150 for 6 stairway windows takes 30 mins but only clean every 4 months shame
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Although I've not been trading too long, commercially mine's £320 and residentially it's £35 every 4 weeks. I picked-up a customer the other day as they'd recently got rid of their previous w/c for charging £32 to do a 3-bed house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can't believe they employed him for 5 months before they realised!!!
I aint, cheap...but I'm certainly not that expensive. It only took me 30 minutes to do all window/frames and then I was taking my time!!
Horses for courses!
I feel the previous window cleaner had the right idea...although perhaps £15to25 for a semi (about 12 windows) , including frames, is closer to the real the true value of a window cleaner's labour. If not, then certainly at least £10.
After all what is the hourly labour/call out rate for other tradespeople, a plumber, tree surgeon etc.... Starts at around £40 an hour
I remember hearing on radio a story about a comment that Babe Ruth, a USA 1950s baseball megastar (equivalent to pele, maradonna in football) player made while watching a then Division 1 English football match with a 60,000 plus crowd. Babe earnt millions of dollars a year playing baseball, and when he asked and was told the pittance being paid to the football players he was watching, he said "they're crazy". They were grossly underpaid
Only took 40 odd years for football players to be paid what they are truely "worth"
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i'm suprised this thread is still active
my highest domestic is still £30 and commercial £100
jay
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It's not the highest price that is important but how profitable the job is that means something.
I time each new job and work the prce charged back to tme and so can see if the job is worth doing.
rosskesava said - 15/9 - £2.00 for 30 seconds - £4 per minute - £240 per hour good rate. Look at Ian Giles - also posted 15/9 - 4 hours work for £120 - £30 per hour not bad but not as good as some other jobs. We should charge for the job not our time.