spinoff what's the most you've ever made per hour

[Sterlingfire]

Pretty much for business owners only..
What's the most you've ever made per hour on a bid project?

My record is just over 2500 per hour. Obviously worked great for me. Not every job goes this way. I've had jobs where i made $3 per hour, and I've had jobs where i had to pay to finish it. My hours were actually in the -$300 per hour on the worst one... due in part to my shit bid and the gc being ****s and never being satisfied with letting us start in a spot and finish that portion of the project.
On average i try to make no less than 65 per hour.

So what say you ibb???

 

[2big bronco]

I regularly make over $100/hr on the check... maybe 20% of my hours worked the last 2 years

 

[DWT]

Just under $77 as an employee.

 

[Wades_76_cj7]

Just under $77 as an employee.

same here for me as an employee at current job

 

[TrikeKid]

I do $100+ an hour pretty often as an employee.

 

[dannytuned]

Probably around $200, Chicagoland electrician.

 

[Brad]

Few welding jobs at another shop were ~$100/hr but were more if I hauled ass and got it done in less time. Regular holiday pay was $91.50/hr

 

[woods]

man, you guys are doing well. my best was like a quarter of these figures.

 

[Pony_Driver]

Are you basing those figures on flat rate x hours worked? Or rather divided by hours worked?

 

[DWT]

man, you guys are doing well. my best was like a quarter of these figures.

Double time baby! Worked 4-10s M-T and 2 more 10s Friday & Saturday and it's only time and a half for the first 8 hours, the remaining 12 hours is all double. Pretty decent to work 60 hours and get paid for 76, it nearly doubled the check.

 

[woods]

Double time baby! Worked 4-10s M-T and 2 more 10s Friday & Saturday and it's only time and a half for the first 8 hours, the remaining 12 hours is all double. Pretty decent to work 60 hours and get paid for 76, it nearly doubled the check.

at my current place, I worked 30m OT before. I got spoken too and was told not to do it again.

 

[Fullsize80cherokee]

I wired an 8 unit multi family building a few years ago and all the garages were pre wired for a 50 amp electric vehicle. Wire ran to panel to box with a blank over it.

April 2020 when the building was closed for ‘covid’ I was asked to price out making them EV ready. Which meant just putting in an outlet and breaker. Gc told me to charge whatever it’s for an asshole HOA.
Price was $1500 per garage, all 8 took maybe 2 hours. Maybe $200 in parts. So $5,900 per hour. Lol felt guilty after that one but fuck em.

 

[Tin Roof]

When I was hourly my best was double time in the St. Louis local. About $82/hr on the check. That was around 2010 or so.

 

[DWT]

at my current place, I worked 30m OT before. I got spoken too and was told not to do it again.

If we worked OT it was because most everyone was gone so we could work on the roads with less traffic. The majority of the site works 4-10s so it was easy to work around. All OT was signed off before it happened for that crew so no worries about snivlers yelling at us.

 

[TRINDU]

Most I've ever made was $11 per hour in 2010.

In the past 4 years dealing with vehicles, I've never sorted per hour. I just figure $$$ per unit. Per hour means nothing to me, if I make x amount, that's all that matters. I 'work' <40hrs a week.

 

[Sterlingfire]

man, you guys are doing well. my best was like a quarter of these figures.

If you did 1/4 of my best you are doing really well...as an employee.
But this thread wasn't intended to be a "how much per hour do you make"
I think everyone answering is missing the point. The ot thread is for employees, as a business owner i cannot reply to that thread, since my hours are never considered ot.

I think it's great some of you guys make as much an hour as you do. Again, this thread wasn't supposed to be about that. I probably missed the mark, and probably a bit jaded on the subject considering as an owner i still go out on the site and work 40+ hours a week.

Are you basing those figures on flat rate x hours worked? Or rather divided by hours worked?

Me?
It's a bid job.
Total bid, subtract expenses, divide by total hours worked... hourly rate.

 

[Sterlingfire]

Most I've ever made was $11 per hour in 2010.

In the past 4 years dealing with vehicles, I've never sorted per hour. I just figure $$$ per unit. Per hour means nothing to me, if I make x amount, that's all that matters. I 'work' <40hrs a week.

You don't necessarily need to figure per hour as an employer. i just do it to help bid future projects. If my hours were low(or high) i can use that data to help me either be, more competitive, or more profitable. As a mechanic, you generally don't bid jobs, you give a price based on a book that tells you how long a certain job will take. If you're wrong, you can add more hours to the invoice to make up for the time lost. Not saying that's what you do, but every time I've had a mechanic give me a price to do a job, there's always an up charge for something. In the construction business, i cannot do this. I bid a project, I'm supposed to know what it takes to complete the job no matter what the above ceiling conditions are, how bad the job was installed originally(if a retrofit), or any number of other things that can make a project go south. There's no way any gc will let you just add to your contract sum because "i missed that in the bid". They will laugh at you and show you in the contract where it says you know all jobsite conditions before bidding...
Technically though, i could say my time is free and the business made great profit from my free labor

 

[crispins]

As an employee I think the most I have ever been paid hourly was $10.00

Fucking sad.

 

[Baconator]

I have a $650 minimum that I charge for me to show up with a mini-ex or a skid steer, that gets you the machine + me for 3hrs + travel time, then my rate goes to hourly after the 3hrs.
I have a home builder customer that I really dislike working for, everything is last minute and has to be done right then, and its always a cluster fuck of what actually needs to be done.
They had a last second job that had to be dug and ready for concrete guys on a Monday, they call me around 3pm on Friday asking for it, its just 2 pilasters that need to be dug, I told them to get a couple shovels and just do it, they said no way, just come do it.
So I show up, dig 2 holes, load back up and go home all within an hour, so $650/hr.
They call late the next week and need the Pilasters backfilled and remaining soil spread out, I tell them you are crazy to pay me to come do that, get some shovels and have at it, no way, just come do it.
Again, I knock the job out in about an hour with travel time, so another $650/hr, now Im getting used to that.

 

[Snowbird13]

About once a year, I do a welding job that makes me around 100 an hour. $3500 total. I'm not a welder though. Im a wage slave most of the year

 

[stjames151]

Back when I had cranes, as the operator/owner I could easily be making well over $750 an hour in wage & rental for a short job. Crane operators will set the pace of the project and good ones are worth every penny.

 

[larboc]

There is a big difference in what you are billing and what you are actually "earning". If you are charging $750/hr and your crane depreciation and maintenance is $700 hr, you aren't making $750.

 

[stjames151]

I'm talking after costs. Billing was closer to $1300/hr., but that covered transportation, set-up, tear down, maintenance, insurance, certifications for me and the crane, storage during down time....all the costs that go along with having a specialized piece of equipment.

 

[Silverback07]

Most was maybe $150 an hour for some side welding stuff (I'm not a welder by trade). It's around $75 an hr for my daily job. My neighbor has been an airline captain for about 25 years, she one time made over 6k an hour. She was slated to fly like a 3 or 4 day trip that would pay like 28 hours or whatever. Well they ended up not needing her so all she did was fly a plane from Austin to Houston and then dead head back home. Like an hours worth of work actually flying. But that does not happen very often if it even ever will again.

 

[jeeptj19992001]

best i have done is 2k for 1 hr of work.
took a pdf drawing, converted it to auto cad. changed name block.
sent it back to tbe builder.
standard charge for a house drawing.

 

[72blazer]

I like being unemployed and living off government assistance. Profit like $162 an hour in a 40 hour work week while working 0 hours a work week.

 

[Silverback07]

I like being unemployed and living off government assistance. Profit like $162 an hour in a 40 hour work week while working 0 hours a work week.

 

[Thatg9659]

I think I was up to 13.50 before I got salaried, when I had an actual jawb. Been mostly self employed since. Hasn’t always been great but I’ve filled a few barrels in an hours time and that’s $100.

 

[Gatorgrizz27]

I own a small finish carpentry company, we don’t get a lot of the “show up for 30 minutes and make $1,000” jobs, the gravy is the reasonably high per hour 1-5 day projects. I try to earn $100/hr on everything while actually doing the work, but when you factor picking up materials, bidding stuff, etc it averages out lower obviously.

Best one this year so far ended up being $250/hr for 40 hours. Making $10k in a week after expenses is sweet. Had to go back to that same job and fix some trim the internet guys decided to hack holes in to run their stuff. I had met with them before we started any of the work and showed them exactly where to run their wiring so it would all be hidden but accessible, the forgot some apparently. Charged them $400 for 20-30 minutes worth of work due to PITA factor.

 

[Pocahontas]

My normal fee for showing up to fix xyz is $250 for first hour and goes up from there, depends how many guys they think it will take, each additional guy is another $100. The amount of times I've plugged something in or reset a breaker is comical. Granted if I'm going to be driving by or they are flexible and its a 5 min fix I won't charge them. However if your going to make make drive 30 minutes to plug your shit in you're paying the stupid tax.