Thread: Yallr payin HOW much?

We have to realise that the hourly rate is highly based on overhead costs.

Someone who say has a workshop at Newmarket in Brisbane is paying high rent or if they own the facilities will want a high return for the value of the location.

Someone else might have a workshop attached to a fuel station at say Woodridge. Rent and facility value would be less.

Also what equipment a company has will dictate what they need to charge. Say if someone has the latest and greatest computerised workshop with all the bells and whistles they will charge out higher.

My background is Furniture Making. I could invest one million dollars on a machine but if I don't have the use for it my hourly rate would have to be high. On the other hand I might be better off with a $100,000 machine that takes a bit longer to produce components but it might just be what I need.

We need to consider the above when quoting hourly rates. Horses for courses.

From experience.....

Most dealers in the Brisbane area are around $100-$110 hr

Most non dealer LR specialist are around $70-80hr

Most other mechanics seem to be about $70hr these days

Originally Posted by FenianEel

From experience.....

Most dealers in the Brisbane area are around $100-$110 hr

Most non dealer LR specialist are around $70-80hr

Most other mechanics seem to be about $70hr these days

Spot on!

I get charged around $70 per hour.. ( non dealer LR specialist ) in Melbourne.

Mark

Remember that hourly charges should include GST, so $88 is really $80.
But even so , Australia now seems to have some of the most expensive labour rates in the World.

I am on a BMW forum and they are bitching about USA BMW dealers charging USD75 per hour, when the local dealer here is trying me ( unsuccesfully) for A$150. UK appears to be more expensive than here.

Maybe its because they have to pay ridiculous salaries to keep the mechanics from "goin West young man".
I think in times of full employment like this that everyone then has a go at getting more profit and why not? I suppose.
Regards Philip A

My mechanic charges around 50-70$ an hour, or so it seems due to the work he does. Certainly nowhere near 120$ from austral. Hes not a land rover specific mechanic, but a true genius at what he does and works from a home workshop in munruben. I wouldnt go to anyone else.

Originally Posted by PhilipA

Remember that hourly charges should include GST, so $88 is really $80.
But even so , Australia now seems to have some of the most expensive labour rates in the World.

I am on a BMW forum and they are bitching about USA BMW dealers charging USD75 per hour, when the local dealer here is trying me ( unsuccesfully) for A$150. UK appears to be more expensive than here.

Maybe its because they have to pay ridiculous salaries to keep the mechanics from "goin West young man".
I think in times of full employment like this that everyone then has a go at getting more profit and why not? I suppose.
Regards Philip A

On another board I saw figures of US$100-110/hr for car air con servicing (West Coast US) about twelve months ago.
Probably like here, hourly rates vary wildly.

I used to be charged out when I was road service at $80 and doing backyarders I charge $25 to $50 per hour, depending on if Ive done the job before and I know exactly how long it will take me and how well I know the person.

Doing backyarders has it's risks for the mechanic as well as the customer, if things go wrong for the mechanic, it can cost a fortune to rectify the problem as a mechanic knows sometimes things happen that are not related to the initial problem but you cant tell a customer that and the easiest way to keep people happy is to just fix it at your own cost.

This is one of the reasons I dont do many backyarders anymore.

If possible when I do any work for people I get them to help me and show them whats involved to try to limit this but I have been burned on a number of occasions.

The risk to the customer is that the backyarder may not know what hes doing and actually stuff things up and there isnt really any recourse on the backyarder to repair it unless you go through the cival court process and thats costly and time consuming.

This is another reason why hourly rates are relatively high.