by locksmistress » 29 Apr 2005 13:07
Depends. Locksmiths who work for a company (similar to any number of other service personnel: copier, elevator, atm machine service for example) will bill anywhere from $25-$80 per hour in the metro but the actual locksmith gets paid between $8-$20 per hour of that with the company taking the rest to cover social security, workman's comp, vehicle, shop, insurance, bonding, stock, licensing, training, taxes and other running business costs.
Individual locksmiths will bill anywhere from $25-$80 per hour for their services and most, once you subtract their social security, workman's comp, vehicle, shop, insurance, bonding, stock, licensing, training, taxes and other running business costs, will actually ''get" between $8-$20 per hour of that.
Unless you start talking about late night calls and holiday calls where you can bill $120-$500 for trip charge. If you do that often enough then you can make enough to cover all of the above plus marriage counseling.
Eh. It's not so bad as all that. But it is a job where you'd better enjoy what you're doing.
