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Originally Posted by cooverwatch
Hi all,
Been lurking here for about a year and wanted to post a question to the group.
I "retired" last year and built a new shop to restore "Play" with old cars. I have gotten to a point where I need shop help with all the side projects that seem to find there way to me.
I have a friend who is an experienced metal guy that does 1/4 replacements, body work and some fabrication. he has bounced around two other shops and is looking to make 1200 a week at a single location. it appears that all he has in the way of equipment is a welder and body hammers and uses the others shops to work out of.
My question - Is 5k a month the going rate for a seasoned metal guy working out of a shop that is equipped by someone else?? I know price will very by region... but it seem real high to me.
I am a retired IT manager and that is what we were paying our senior programming architects.
PS. I will be creating a shop build thread shortly to show what is going through my little shop. I am a beginner in the metal shaping world and thank you all for your help and guidance.
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$6k/month + pension around here and as we all retire, there's not many to replace us so the price will continue to go up.