Hi Ian!
Don't forget pricing is all relative to whereabouts in the Country you are operating from.....those people charging £7 - £8 may be making a perfectly decent living for themselves! I charge my Clients £9.00 per hour, I pay my Cleaners £6.00 per hour.
However I do all the ironing duties myself and charge by the lb weight, and I also do a hour a night clean (5 nights a week) at an office across the road from where I live and charge them £10 per hour!. My overheads are virtually nil for that job, so that is a bonus for me.
Even tho the income from the Clients with whom I put Cleaners is low, the rest makes up for it.
My personal income for my first year of trading, is double that of my last job!! I believe it is all about balancing. My turnover was more than I forecasted it would be in the first year, so that is a bonus too.
Obviously as we all operate in different parts of the Country, our cost of living will differ immensely, as will our Client base. Often, for all us inexperienced people, getting our pricing right only comes from trial and error, but we all get there in the end (however long that takes).
Jan
