On 1/8/20 12:49 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
On 2020-01-08 3:13 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
So materials cost for a 6 ft jumper is about $25.
If materials is 50% of the selling price, a company is not making
much profit!
How many jumpers can a competent production worker make and test
in an hour? If that worker is making $10/hour, he/she is costing
the employer at least $15/hour with local/state/federal payroll
taxes *without* any other benefits. Add benefits, the cost of
supervision, the cost of packing, cost of storage/carry, cost of
sale (credit card fees, commercial terms for direct sales or discounts
to retailers), cost of commercial overhead (buildings, electricity,
interest/depreciation for equipment) accounting, advertising, etc.
and that "50% over the cost of materials" is likely to produce
considerably less than 10% net profit before corporate taxes.
The usual small volume mfr thing is that "sell price" is 5 to 10 times
the raw parts cost.
That would make jumpers around $125.
The cable making companies do it for around $50-100
rfmax.us seems to want $23 for a 6 foot N plug - N plug with their
PT400 (0.400" diameter) coax. (I think that's a LMR400 equivalent).
They just happened to be the first hit that turned up on google - never
used them, etc.
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