Hi All
Can someone tell me what is the hourly rate for a electrician around Perth to come out and do some work,just simple jobs as adding an out side power point and put up 3 ceiling fans.
Thanks
Browse Forums General Discussion Re: Electrician Rates 8Mar 03, 2012 5:25 pm Electrical - Automation - Smart wiring - New homes - Commercial - Data cabling] 1300 050 315 www.cenemelectrical.com.au www.facebook.com/cenemelectrical Re: Electrician Rates 11Mar 06, 2012 11:04 pm Electrical - Automation - Smart wiring - New homes - Commercial - Data cabling] 1300 050 315 www.cenemelectrical.com.au www.facebook.com/cenemelectrical Re: Electrician Rates 12Mar 09, 2012 10:05 pm jj1 james_d Between $60-70 around here (nsw) Sounds like we are on the money ? $70 wire and instal per light. thats not bad price acutally. I'd personally do it for that only if there was more then 10. Remember builders are currently charging $120 and they have the benifit of wiring it before the plaster goes on the wall. It can also depend on how you switch them if you switched all 10 separately id up it to say 80 a light. Quote: Also, every tradesman charges parts as extra, so you can't complain about it going into your hourly when you charge separately for it. parts often you just break even on. The time to pick them up. Plus the odd switch that gets damaged in the van or the time taken to take faulty parts back to the wholesalers. Does cost about the possibly 20% we can buy the parts for cheaper then the homeowner. I much prefer it when customers supply their own material so much less stress. Quote: I don't see why you should be entitled to charge an hourly to get to my place (within a reasonable distance) to do the job. I am not allowed to claim the kms travelled to work in my office job, so why should you? I provide the work place so your overheads are relatively low compared to a factory or mechanical workshop(in that you don't have to rent a factory or workspace) I understand what your saying here. But if during your day you had to drive to 3 or 4 locations then you would be entitled to claim KM and most sparkies who charge for travel do multiple jobs in one day. If you keep them busy for the whole day I would say youd have a fair arguement not to pay travel. Most sparkie do acutally need a workshop. Remember they have paperwork to do and conduit etc they need to store. While if you worked for yourself you could technically work from home. There is a few issues. 1 being storage space for the materials and tools. Security at your home. Also that its not nice to have all your work stuff at home. Imagine if you had to take your office home with you every day I'm sure that wouldn't be nice. Understand we are like any other business everyone is out to undercut you. So we all can only work for a fair price. But like anything you get what you pay for. I know there is guys bashing around for 50 bucks an hour. The only reason to do that would be if you where not worth say 70 or 80 bucks an hour. BTW i can get over 80 bucks an hour on wages.So if someone want to charge you 80 bucks an hour with all the running cost of a business I think your doing pretty well. People say why can we charge so much but to be honest yes it is because where in short supply. When I went through my apprenticeship I started with 30 - 40 apprentices in my class. I think by the end 5 got their trade. Its acutally pretty hard to become a sparkie. Total Breeze Air Conditioning and Electrical - Based in Melbourne http://www.totalbreeze.com.au Re: Electrician Rates 13May 23, 2012 3:37 pm OK Lecos what about project work I have been quote $6k for a standard 2 story spec home 26 GPOs 26 lights 2 x 2 way switch tv point 3 phase connection single RCD unit all bakelite being standard HPM or Clipsal I though this price was excessively cheap considering materials and a number of visits would be required to site ? 0 1379 |