Man, do you know how to ruin a pity party/botch session!
Kudos!
Kim Elmore N5OP
"People that make music together cannot be enemies, at least as long as the
music lasts." -- Paul Hindemith
> On Jul 14, 2015, at 15:35, Jim Brown <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon,7/13/2015 12:52 PM, Steve Berg wrote:
>> Back in 1979 Motorola was billing $65.00 an hour for my efforts. So, what
>> Ten Tec is charging is not really out of line.
>
> In the 70s, I had jobs doing both field and bench service, as well as
> managing the service department of a sound and video contractor. We were
> charging $60 then, and that rate was needed to cover our costs. In addition
> to the hourly wages of the service tech, there are taxes and various benefits
> like health insurance. Then there's the real estate needed for the service
> shop and to hold spare parts -- at least a couple of rooms -- test equipment,
> the stock of parts itself, utilities (electricity, heat, telephone), an
> accounting person to do billing, and so on. For field service, there were the
> added costs associated with travel, including a vehicle equipped with test
> equipment and spare parts.
>
> At a 3% average rate of inflation, $65 in 1979 translates to $188 in 2015.
> For 2% average, it's $132.60.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
>
>
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