Thruout much of the USA, I can see $100 per hour as reasonable. Having been in the service industry for 29 years, the cost of equipment, taxation and employees works like this:

1/3 to taxation and over head
1/3 to operating the business and scraping out a profit of maybe 5%
1/3 to the employee

THat does not mean the guy working makes $33 an hour, it costs a lot to employ someone, and all employes have non-billable time thruout the week that must be paid. At $100 an hour, if the employee has any benefits at all and is paid even $20-25 an hour, his cost to the boss is going to be $30-35 an hour.


I pay zero, as I don't let anyone work on my car but myself or a friend at a tech day.