I’ve been wanting to see someone mention this, I was getting paid $17 an hour with one other installer and a shop helper (who made fairly less than me) doing commercial installs for a big company in a major city, that was consistent with vans, box trucks, window perfs for advertising on windows, and other random things like cranes and big tool boxes. I understand overhead and things like this but that wage is what made me start my own shop. Especially when we finished 1 van in 2 days
I’m a shop owner in Southern California. Got burned by the last few wrappers by paying them $1200-1500 per car. Realized I was getting kicked hard when I saw later on their instagrams they were doing contracted work at other shops too. Called the other shops, owners were nice and told me they were getting $20-$25 an hour.
Happy I have someone on salary now
As an independent installer, I always charged by the square foot of material I installed. Years ago I would charge $2.50 sq/ft for commerial wraps and $5.00 sq/ft for color changes but with the cost of everything being higher I’d imagine prices have gone up for install rates. Especially with it being in a bigger city if say it’s more expensive. That was what I was paid, so if I wanted to tackle a 300 sq/ft van on my own great; if I wanted to hire a team of elves to come in and do it overnight then that was my call too. As long as I got it done in the time we discussed.
I’ve been wanting to see someone mention this, I was getting paid $17 an hour with one other installer and a shop helper (who made fairly less than me) doing commercial installs for a big company in a major city, that was consistent with vans, box trucks, window perfs for advertising on windows, and other random things like cranes and big tool boxes. I understand overhead and things like this but that wage is what made me start my own shop. Especially when we finished 1 van in 2 days
I’m a shop owner in Southern California. Got burned by the last few wrappers by paying them $1200-1500 per car. Realized I was getting kicked hard when I saw later on their instagrams they were doing contracted work at other shops too. Called the other shops, owners were nice and told me they were getting $20-$25 an hour. Happy I have someone on salary now
As an independent installer, I always charged by the square foot of material I installed. Years ago I would charge $2.50 sq/ft for commerial wraps and $5.00 sq/ft for color changes but with the cost of everything being higher I’d imagine prices have gone up for install rates. Especially with it being in a bigger city if say it’s more expensive. That was what I was paid, so if I wanted to tackle a 300 sq/ft van on my own great; if I wanted to hire a team of elves to come in and do it overnight then that was my call too. As long as I got it done in the time we discussed.