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Originally Posted by Ken07AOVette
We have had the flat rate discussion many times. A friend of mine working at a dealership could do a certain job in 2 hours. He did 4 of these a day. The customers were all billed 8.5 hours. That's 34 hours work charged in a single day by a single young mechanic.
There is a difference between a good mechanic doing the work at lightning speed which is good for the business and outright fraud and theft. In this case what would CRA say when they bill out 170 hours per week from this one mechanic at $125 per hour yet pay him $35?
Overhead, insurance, utilities, yeah yeah.
He quit by the way, couldn't take any more of their crap and overbilling. I have not heard yet what happened with the labor board.
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A true flat rate shop pays their technicians their hourly wage for hours billed. If he was actually billing 170 hours per week at 35$ / hr which is 3950$ per week which is excellent money that’s the attraction to flat rate for most mechanics.