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I was going to ask the same question.
If you are going to charge someone $100/hr you should let them know that before so they can find someone charging a reasonable amount instead. I'd be pissed if I got charged $100/hr by anyone other than a surgeon.
He knew that we charge $75.00 per hour from the start not the $100.00 that you are implying. It is impossible to give someone a quote before we start a service call type of project. We are there to fix a problem and there is no amount of experience or a manual (like mechanics use) or a computer program to tell us what's wrong and what parts we will need and how long it will take to fix it. We have to get our tools out and start trouble shooting until we find it. At this point a rough estimate could be given but one wasn't requested nor is it typically requested.
I wish I lived in a world where $100.00 per hour was out of the question but sadly $100.00 is more common than you realize. Have you taken your car to a mechanic lately? Our local dealerships charge in excess of 100.00 per hour for a mechanic. The smaller independent shops charge around $85.00. Plumbers charge right around $90.00. How about your accountant, what do they charge? You must be pissed off a lot!
I just paid a doctor bill where the doctor saw me for less than 3 minutes. We just talked, he never even touched me and the bill came to $267.00. Apparently he charges $89.00 per minute. This was just a family doctor so your thoughts of paying a surgeon $100.00 per hour is
never going to happen. As a matter of fact I had a back surgery a few years back and the bill was $22,879.00. I was in the operating room for about two hours so he charged me $11,439.50. A far cry from $100.00 per hour.
When this topic comes up I always get a kick out of how people all want to make huge salaries but nobody wants to pay anyone else a living wage. I also think that everyone should have to be self employed at some point in their life just so they understand that all of the benefits that they get from their "megacorp" have to be paid for out of the wages they are able to charge out to their customers. It would be a rude awakening for most.
I am not going to pursue trying to collect the outstanding $75.00. I know and understand the principle of it all but it simply is not worth the energy. I have to many good, paying customers that need my service to waste time on this guy. Everyone can rest assured that I nor any of my other service business owner friends will be doing any work for this guy. He drove the final nail in the coffin he just doesn't know it yet.