Thread: Handyman Price?
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As a comparison I recently had an estimate done on installing a total of 8
doors. Plus doing a small amount of framing and drywall.
The contractor doing the estimate was both professional, and if his photo
album was any guide a craftsman.

Through this blanket contracting operation that he works for he quoted a
price that amounted to $92/hr. (the total duration of the work was his
estimate not mine)

Of this he said that he got to take home $40/hr.

I would have been ecstatic to pay this man $40/hr. for the job. I would
have been happy to pay him $60. I would have paid him $75 but would have
expected a pristine job. I thought that $92 was a bit much.

On asking why he would work for an organization that took over half of what
the jobs he did paid he replied that not having to deal w/accounting,
insurance, and marketing made it worth it.