It’s the same all over. I hear service business owners complain, “I work hard, long hours, and I am not making much money for my work.” The problem appears to be uniform in all geographic areas of the country, so it’s not just a few economically depressed areas.
Service and repair business owners have shared with me their revenues from service work and the data surprised me. Do you know that some of companies that bill on a time and materials (T&M) basis are reporting as low as $60 an hour for their work? Similarly, even companies who have switched to flat rate pricing are seeing as little as $80 an hour for their work.