Average day rate for tree surgery

[doobin]

But the main rule of thumb I work to is you should as an employer charge at least double what you pay your employee.

 

 

More like three times IMHO.

[swinny]

if thats the case you lot must pay your workers buttons

[Tom D]

This thread comes up often on here as you might expect.. The interesting thing to me is that rates don't appear to have changed much in 5 years... But the cost of living has...

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/general-chat/8384-article-research-how-much-do-you-charge-days-work.html

 

Thats very true, £350 a day seems to have been the cheap mans rate for as long as I can remember.

 

A decent 2 man crew with a truck and chipper and decent saws and kit should be getting £2750 a week IMO

[doobin]

be nice if more people thought like you,(rather than continuing to shoot themselves in the foot) it would slowly improve things for everyone

 

We don't run a cartel. I'm fed up of hearing all this rubbish about how we're underpaid. Charge what you can/want/need, and it it's not enough then do something else/diversify/go on the dole. This is business 101.

 

There's room in this trade for all skill levels, prices and lifestyles. Just decide what you want out of life and mould your business accordingly. This is the joy of working for yourself.

[doobin]

if thats the case you lot must pay your workers buttons

 

Or charge the customer a lot...

[swinny]

We don't run a cartel. I'm fed up of hearing all this rubbish about how we're underpaid. Charge what you can/want/need, and it it's not enough then do something else/diversify/go on the dole. This is business 101.

 

There's room in this trade for all skill levels, prices and lifestyles. Just decide what you want out of life and mould your business accordingly. This is the joy of working for yourself.

 

couldn't agree more!

[Philip Anderson]

i dont need to do f/t any ,jts now a choice if i do a 5,day wk

 

Lucky man ,everybody's business model is different .

[aitch]

very true and look how many hits this post has had,its obviously something we are all interested in....why?....

 

i reckon one of the reasons is everyone wants to know how much they can get away with charging. It's been said plenty of times on similar threads. Charge what you can get away with. Sometimes you'll get it right, sometimes you won't.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Its a lifestyle choice, if they are happy doing that then fair enough, its not for me though. I want the best for my family and working cheap is not the way to achieve that. I also want a comfortable retirement.....

 

thats about it isn't it, I mean what is the point in destroying your body and having zero life/time to be free?

 

Seems so many people have their priorities all wrong, we should work to live not live to work, I genuinely feel sorry for those who's world is held to ransom to such a degree that there is no time to stand and stare, to smell the rose.

 

We all need different things, have different long term goals and different costs, to try and say a set price for our sweat equity is to be dictated too by others who want to set your worth.

 

I know what I am worth, sadly it seems many have trouble deciding what treework is worth.

 

it isnt about what you do, its about how much you, YOU value your sweat equity and knowledge.

 

I gave a guy a quote the other day, he took a back step and said ive had quotes a fair bit cheaper than that, I said I knew I wasn't the cheapest and had no desire to be so. I dont like working in ths game under pressure, I like to enjoy my work and my life, thats the true art, managing that balance.

 

Its all too easy to forget how much we enjoy work when the pressures are on, humans NEED work, I know I certainly do, even when I'm not working i am extremely hands on and active.

 

When you get the balance right work is not a labour but a pleasure:001_smile:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Thats very true, £350 a day seems to have been the cheap mans rate for as long as I can remember.

 

A decent 2 man crew with a truck and chipper and decent saws and kit should be getting £2750 a week IMO

 

 

Another spot on post!

 

I use a guy and his groundy, I used to work for him, many moons ago, he is charging that rate and when he comes out for me I make the same with out the overheads and commitments!

 

As a friend Ive tried to show him the error, but he has a mental state that denies him the capacity to see past his own low self worth, HE has convinced himself he wont get the work, its the saddest thing to see a friend struggle this way.