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Domestic electrician rates

Jimi

What do you think the labour rates are for self-employed domestic electricians in the Midlands for:

1. First hour;

2. Subsequent hours;

3. Day rate.

Looking online I thought it was £200-250 a day = £25-32 per hour (then more for the first hour). Now I'm starting to think most charge around £35-45 per hour or up to £70+ and maybe £350 a day? I don't know what sub contractors are on ATM but obviously being self-employed has more costs and work involved.

I've seen a few places say to add 20% profit on top of the day rate but lets just say you're including that in your day rate.

Materials are separate and let's presume you add a mark up on them.

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    Back last year I drove up to Cheshire for the day to do a job.

    When I arrived there was a nice double cab pickup and trailer parked on the exceptionally wide footway with two spaniels looking out of a window, who greeted me as I got out of my van.

    The owner a gardener was mowing the lawns next door and tidying the garden, as I worked he went on to do another five properties without moving his pickup and trailer, he just moved from house to house, when I left he looked like he was moving to another rather than packing his kit up.

    I did speak to him partway through the day and actually passed comment that he looked like he has got it sussed, he smiled.

    It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it.

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    Back last year I drove up to Cheshire for the day to do a job.

    When I arrived there was a nice double cab pickup and trailer parked on the exceptionally wide footway with two spaniels looking out of a window, who greeted me as I got out of my van.

    The owner a gardener was mowing the lawns next door and tidying the garden, as I worked he went on to do another five properties without moving his pickup and trailer, he just moved from house to house, when I left he looked like he was moving to another rather than packing his kit up.

    I did speak to him partway through the day and actually passed comment that he looked like he has got it sussed, he smiled.

    It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it.

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