What should I charge someone for being a handyman?

Question

Hello. I have a day job. A friend of mine pays me to do odd jobs around the house. This work is generally 2 to 4 hours long about one week end a month. What is fair to charge?

I also need to know this because other people have asked for my services. I don't know how much to charge them.

I have done things like paint, move furniture, run errands, trim, make dump runs, get the car cleaned, repair a door, put new cement on a drive way, take down and put in air conditioners.

Answer 1

If you're using your own supplies, gas, equipment, be suer to factor that in as well. $15-$20 per hour is fair, and again, slightly more depending on what equipment and materials of your own that you use. That's what I usually pay for general labor services.

Answer 2

I would call some of the people in the area that do similar work and find out what they charge. For instance if most plumbers would charge a $25 service fee plus $15 an hour, then you would be fine just charging the $15 an hour (or somewhere thereabouts).

The bigges issue seems to be that you do very varied things. Moving furniture might not be a huge or time consuming job - but paining or re-sealing a driveway could be. It would be hard to set one rate and stick to it, but that's probably what you should do. I would suggest by the hour rather than by the day, just so you don't have someone plan a million things for you thinking they can get off easy. Plus, what they might think would take a day and what you could reasonably do in a day might be very different things.

Answer 3

it depends on the job, i reccomend telling them what you would want, for a big job, like taking down a palm tree or something, thatd be worth 100-250, smaller jobs like dump runs, more like 5 or 10 bucks (depends on how far the dump is)but if you need cash, i could reccomnend what you can try, these pay well and you can do almost nothing

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Answer 4

Go to the internet and type in "Bureau of Labor Statistics" go to 2. BLS Career Information Home Page, go to bottom of page and click on BLS Home Page then click on Wages, earnings and benefits. This will give you minimum, medium and maximum pay for different jobs by states. This is a federal government site.

Answer 5

it all depends on what each job is!and how hard it is!and dont forget to add enough for your gas!thats akiller by itself!
generally you will go look at a job to see the extent of the work,and charge them whatever you feel it is worth!you would want to go see it first,because you might be charging to little,alot of people say something is easy and then you get there and it sucks!thatway if you it and give a little bigger estimate that what you really want,because that way if they say its to much you will have room to go down alittle on the price!

Answer 6

Less than union, minus income tax. Yes, I know.
Min 4 hours

Answer 7

$15 - $20 per hour, depending on skill level needed

Answer 8

150 a day