Is £25 an hour a reasonable price to pay for an electrician?
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Is £25 an hour a reasonable price to pay for an electrician?
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Posted 2 years ago #
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Yes
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Yes if they are NEICEIC accredited
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Yes, but it depends how good they are and how quickly they work. Fixed priced jobs usually work out better ime.
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**** me! That's way more than I get paid. I only did three years postgraduate training to
qualify though.I'm in the wrong industry methinks!
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Or you aren't self employed? £25 an hour isn't amazing money if you are.
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Fair point guv.
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I only did three years postgraduate training to
qualify though.I've no idea what the path is nowadays but when I left school it took a lot longer than that and involved massive amounts of backbreaking work to become a qualified electrician. I qualified as an electronic engineer and still spent a solid three years laying cables and fault finding circuit boards during the day and revising obscure circuit theory and the like during the night. I took a lot longer to be earning 25 quid an hour.
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I did 4 years as an apprentice, so neh neh!
Factor in van, insurance, diesel, consumables, public liability, registering with the equivalent government body, tax, nationl insurance, training, blah
£25 is silly cheap
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I would be wondering why they were so cheap.
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As per Goan's comment.
I expect a bill of 260 plus the damage from a good one like my man John. He is ridiculously good though and therefore cheaper overall than most!
I used to be billed at £400 a day to install hifi/av cabling... £25p/h is cheap.
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£25p/h for a sparky
fairplay if you can get it
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**** me! That's way more than I get paid. I only did three years postgraduate training to
qualify though.I'm in the wrong industry methinks!
But the guy charging £25 per hour doesn't always work 8 hours a day. He generates his all of his own income, doesn't get sick pay, paid holiday, subsidised pension, a company vehicle, funded training. He does have to pay an accountant, insurances, fuel, do his own books in the evenings/weekends, canvas/advertise, spend time doing free estimates that never turn into work etc etc.
It would take 2 years at college to get certified as ana electrician or 3 years if you do block release. This costs a fortune too.
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At that price he must be a one armed blind gibbon!
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It depends IMO - is that £25 p/h to change a light fitting or a plug socket, or is that £25 p/h to change the fuse board and add a new ring?
Don't forget the geography!
But yeah, that's still quite cheap - i'd be expecting to see another £5-10 p/h on top of that if everything is going to be done with a cert' and through the company, or it could be a 'cash' price
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Spongebob - why do they not work / charge 8 hrs a day?
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because not all jobs happen to work out in neat 8 hour blocks
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£25ph is a good rate for anybody to do something that you don't know how to do yourself, IMO.
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because not all jobs happen to work out in neat 8 hour blocks
I'm not having a pop, but I find it hard to believe that any sparky worth his salt is not able to charge for 35 hours plus per week.
There was a chap we used to use in Edinburgh who was like a bloody rocket. He would be in, job done and out before you could blink. His first hour rate was something like £50, but he rarely needed to stay longer than an hour.
And like I said in my first post, I'd prefer to pay a fixed price rather than an hourly charge for them to sit around drinking tea.
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I'm not having a pop, but I find it hard to believe that any sparky worth his salt is not able to charge for 35 hours plus per week.
If you could charge for packing up and driving time getting from one job to another, quotes, buying materials and bookkeeping perhaps.
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It's an excellent rate given their qualifications, experience, tools, registration costs, I paid much more. Get recommendations? Check his quals. Dodgy electrics, don't go there.
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£25 per hour for a sparky? **** me that's cheap. Can you post his number so we can all use him.
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