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Pricing and profit

What should your labour rate actually be?

Work it out from your own costs, not from the garage down the road. Here's the sum, and what to do with the answer.

Andy Savva · 12 September 2026

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Pricing and profit

Busy and profitable are not the same thing. How to tell which one you are.

Pricing and profit

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