One thing to keep in mind about prices is that for the most part we here in the USA who are independant technicians have to pay a high premium for health insurance or go without. Some have spouses that have benefits but I know some technicians who pay approximatly $400 a month for health insurance. But I know that citizens of some other countries are more heavily taxed than we are. Cost of living is an important factor in comparing income. I'd be curious to know from our international technicians what percentage of a tuning is taxed by the government, and also how much goes to pay for food, housing, and education. My price for an hour and a half tuning is $80. It seems about 40% goes out in taxes and operating expenses. The remaining 60% is divided up between housing, food, kids, and paying off student loans from when we attended college. Not much left over. What is it like in China? Or Germany? Or South Africa? Or anywhere else? Ryan Sowers, RPT Puget Sound Chapter, #985 Olympia, WA >From: baoli liu <baoli_liu@yahoo.com> >Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org >To: pianotech@ptg.org >Subject: Re: prices for tuning in your country? >Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 10:38:07 -0700 (PDT) > > > > So, dear collegues, tell me about the prices for > > tunings in your country. > > What´s about asia, afrika, new zealand, > > brasilia..........all the foreign > > countries i only know from tv > > > > If anyone from you speaks german, feel invited to > > visit my homepage. > > > > Gregor Weldert > > gregor@weldert.de > > www.weldert.de > > >Hi Gregor, > >I am a technician from china,now I am working in the >United States. > >I had charged 200RMB,about 25 US Dollars for each >tuning,no tax.(The average salary in China is about >600 to 1,000RMB/month) > >As I know ,some Chinese Technicians charge 100 to >150RMB for each tuning,some technicians in South >China,where the living cost is higher, charge 300 or >more rmb for each tuning. > >Baoli Liu >University of Wisconsin-Madison > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger >http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
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