Plumber hourly rate: how to set yours (and what customers compare)
Customers search “plumber hourly rate” to compare. Plumbers should ask a different question: what rate actually pays for the hours you work but never bill?
What goes into a plumbing rate
Wages or your own pay, the truck, insurance, licensing, tools, and the unbilled hours: driving, quoting, invoicing and chasing payments. Divide by the hours you really bill, not the hours you work.
Hourly vs. flat-rate pricing
Flat-rate pricing per job is easier for customers to accept and rewards efficiency. Hourly pricing is simpler for unknown problems. Many plumbers use flat rates for common jobs and hourly for diagnostics.
Cutting the hours you never bill
Automatic texts on missed calls, quotes that follow up on their own and invoices that go out the morning of the job remove hours of unbilled admin every week.
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