??Formula?? Hours x Hourly wage = price Thing is, hours is variable from one piano to another so there are additions/subtractions, and my skill is reflected in my hourly wage. Of course it's not arbitrary, no one has suggested that. Not me, not Jack, not anyone. We each determine a cost of a job in our own way, reflecting our own experiences and skill levels, either as a straight hourly rate or some configuration that involves hours, difficulties, hazards, etc., etc. Just because I don't understand how Jack or anyone else arrives at their prices, doesn't invalidate them. I think every one of us (OK, most every one) chooses to quote a price for a job with some variation of this thought process. Strict, hourly rates is not the only way to price, and it most certainly is not the only ethical way to price. There are other variants and they are legitimate, even if they aren't the way you (or I) do it. WRM On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:49 PM, <tnrwim at aol.com> wrote: > > I use an hours chart too, but I don't live by it. If a job has unique > problems, it also has a unique price. ;-] > > William R. Monroe > > > You are absolutely right. But, again, this is where I was coming from. You > have a price chart. How did you arrive at your prices? There's got to be > some sort of "formula", or something that made you come up with a price for > a job? Or did you just arbitrarily pick a number out of the air? > > Wim > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100721/ba6d79d1/attachment.htm>
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