The current going hourly rate for a plumber here in the USA is about $80 an hour. Plus a service call charge of roughly $75. The normal work year for most people without overtime is 2000 hours. Say roughly, $640,000 a year in revenue. That doesn't count the overtime because the night and weekend rates parallel time and a half. Usually plumbing problems don't watch the clock and happen between 8 A.M. and 5 P.M.
So if a guy has a little operation doing let's say $700K a year and pays his guys say $40 an hour he nets about $460K. Got a few expenses but not much. Couple of old trucks. The guys provide their own tools. He has a lot of room between $460K and Barry's $250K for those expenses and he will still get screwed. Happens all of the time. There are tons of guys in the trades that operate that way. Plumbers, electricians, carpenters, geez anybody self employed with a few employees!
Then if the guys wife works and makes even $30K or $40K a year they are really rich and Barry sucks em dry so he can "Reditribute the Wealth".
People don't understand this stuff because they don't understand what people can and will do to make a better life for themselves and their families.
People don't understand this stuff because they don't understand what people can and will do to make a better life for themselves and their families.
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