[pianotech] Charging by job, or by hour?

[Wim Blees]

"roll your own"

Wim

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-----Original Message-----
From: Conrad Hoffsommer <choffsommer at hotmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 9:33 AM
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Subject: Re: [pianotech] Charging by job, or by hour?

...and thus the value of one of the "flat-rate" or"piece-work" piano service charts such as the one Newton Hunt devised. Others are available, right, Wim?

Conrad Hoffsommer




To: pianotech at ptg.org
From: tnrwim at aol.com
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:47:57 -0400
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Charging by job, or by hour?


Several of my clients are lawyers. We talk. Most charge by the job, a few by the hour. In the end, it probably all works out about the same.

 Regards
 Ron.
 
I respectfully disagree. Most lawyers charge by the hours. They are called "billable hours". Lawyers will also charge more per hour when they represent you in court than they do when they talk to you in their office. My question has always been, "do you use more of your brain during court?"
 
The hours they charge in a day presumably add up to an 8 or 10 hour day. Back in St. Louis, a public defender was fired because according to his log, he billed the city 23 hours in one day. Not just once, but on a number of occasions.
 
Wim


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