Is it Better to Price By the Job in the Trades or Work Hourly? Master Electrician Teaches Son

but he's good. That's what you want to do. So, you want to make sure that you're competitively priced on the higher side. Okay? >> You don't want to ever rip anybody off. Okay? But you also want to show up wearing like you're wearing now. >> Yeah. >> You look good. You look like a tradesman. You look like an electrician. >> It's important to be comfortable >> where you could work, right? Charge the right amount. Come with the right tools. >> Okay? >> Right? And then you want to be efficient. You want to get these jobs done pretty much as fast as you can, >> okay? >> For the most amount of money. And that's why I don't recommend you working by the hour. >> Okay? So, charge by the job. >> Always charge by the job cuz when when someone asks you, "What's your hourly rate?" >> Yeah. >> Well, why do you want to know my hourly rate? It's what's the value I can give you. >> So, somebody asked me my hourly rate, what should I tell them? You you really have to say, "Well, ma'am, it's hard to say what our hourly rate is because it depends on the work that we're doing." I mean, hourly rate for us to run, say, you know, 4 in conduit pulling in 750 MCMs at 50 ft in the air, okay, is certainly going to be different than installing a residential receptacle on 142 cable. >> Yeah. >> So, we really don't work by the hourly rate. We work by the