What is your hourly rate as a self employed electrician?

[HappyHippyDad]

I do like chatting about prices!

I thought I would start a poll to see 'roughly' what the average hourly rate is for self employed electricians?

To keep it as simple as possible, forget about any 'first hour' rate you may or may not charge and just go for your rate after that.

I realise this isn't going to cover lots and lots of scenarios (quotes, domestic, commercial, location etc etc), but it's just for a bit of amusement and perhaps along the way we'll gain a very rough idea of an electrician's hourly rate.

It will be anonymous so please do answer honestly.

 

[ipf]

THink twice before hitting the threshold. Its a one way street .

Agree.....go back down to £30....

 

[Deleted account]

£50 per hour, but a day was £250 which works out at about £32 ish per hour.

however, off site workload reduces this down to a lot less than this.

 

[suffolkspark]

Seems you'll be getting close to the 85k vat threshold, then?

I only do 35 hrs per week as have kids so take a lot of time off for school holidays and loose quite a few hours per week for school runs, net profit was 46k ish last year and I turned over 65k ish, so with the 25% increase in wages I should still be safe

 

[123]

THink twice before hitting the threshold. Its a one way street .

With folk charging £30/£40 an hour and well above, and the cost rises in materials, that freeze on VAT threshold at £85k gets all the tougher to stay under.

 

[123]

I only do 35 hrs per week as have kids so take a lot of time off for school holidays and loose quite a few hours per week for school runs, net profit was 46k ish last year and I turned over 65k ish, so with the 25% increase in wages I should still be safe

£30 to £40 is a 33⅓% increase. VAT threshold is also over a rolling 12 months, not just tax years. Just saying.

 

[suffolkspark]

£30 to £40 is a 33⅓% increase. VAT threshold is also over a rolling 12 months, not just tax years. Just saying.

Oh yea our outgoings are really low so I'll just take a month off if I get near and sit in the garden

 

[123]

Oh yea our outgoings are really low so I'll just take a month off if I get near and sit in the garden

Just make sure it's July/August rather than Jan/Feb

 

[Markyd]

£50 per hour or £350 for a full day 8hrs

 

[Dustydazzler]

So judging by this survey , it looks like the average per hourly rate is somewhere in the £40-50 ball park.
Which is about £350 per day , which I would hazard a guess is probably bang on the national average what a decent self deployed sparks should be charging.

 

[JBW175]

Just had someone try knock me down on my price for the first hour, as they said the job would only take me 10 minutes…

 

[Dustydazzler]

Just had someone try knock me down on my price for the first hour, as they said the job would only take me 10 minutes…

Tell them to do it themselves as you have more important things to do with your time

 

[JBW175]

Tell them to do it themselves as you have more important things to do with your time

I wouldn’t budge on the price. Told him I’m running a business, not a charity.

 

[littlespark]

Just had someone try knock me down on my price for the first hour, as they said the job would only take me 10 minutes…

Interesting.

Someone phoned me last night, RCD had tripped. Fridge and boiler off.
I said I couldn’t come out on a Sunday evening… had had a drink with my dinner, but I’d come Monday morning after putting off my planned job.

When I got there, it was obvious to see it was their rather large light fitting that had caused the problem… Brass thing with loads of arms, and a lamp holder on the ends…

Took it down, made the cables safe as they said they would buy a new fitting, and they could do without a ceiling light. RCD reset fine.

The customer himself last night thought one of the arms looked a bit crooked, so tried to turn it himself….. which cut through the inner insulation of the flex which was showing at the top of the fitting…. Wish I’d taken a photo now.


Which brings me to a dilemma.
Do I charge my usual 35 an hour, which covers my travelling there and back, or up it to 50…. As it was putting off another job this morning?
I will be asked back to put up the new fitting, no doubt.

 

[JBW175]

Interesting.

Someone phoned me last night, RCD had tripped. Fridge and boiler off.
I said I couldn’t come out on a Sunday evening… had had a drink with my dinner, but I’d come Monday morning after putting off my planned job.

When I got there, it was obvious to see it was their rather large light fitting that had caused the problem… Brass thing with loads of arms, and a lamp holder on the ends…

Took it down, made the cables safe as they said they would buy a new fitting, and they could do without a ceiling light. RCD reset fine.

The customer himself last night thought one of the arms looked a bit crooked, so tried to turn it himself….. which cut through the inner insulation of the flex which was showing at the top of the fitting…. Wish I’d taken a photo now.


Which brings me to a dilemma.
Do I charge my usual 35 an hour, which covers my travelling there and back, or up it to 50…. As it was putting off another job this morning?
I will be asked back to put up the new fitting, no doubt.

I suppose it all depends on what you’re happy with, and can charge up there?

Like you said, you’ll likely get return business from him and he’ll no doubt recommend you to others.

 

[Risteard]

So judging by this survey , it looks like the average per hourly rate is somewhere in the £40-50 ball park.
Which is about £350 per day , which I would hazard a guess is probably bang on the national average what a decent self deployed sparks should be charging.

It would be interesting to see what the averages are more locally, but I suspect this wouldn't be easy to find out.