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Your going rates?

bigjake0524

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Joined
Sep 18, 2007
Messages
21
Location
Oregon
I have a 130 size machine and was charging 100 last year and after the first raised my rate to 110. What are you guys charging and hour?
 

mikef87

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Aug 22, 2007
Messages
433
Location
waltham
Occupation
owner/operator/mechanic/laborer/truck driver
A Cat 345 is getting $245 an hour.
 

RT Engineering

Active Member
Joined
Jun 2, 2007
Messages
35
Location
Port Hueneme, CA
Occupation
Owner
JD 50 with buckets or ripper $125/ Hour
JD 50 with Breaker $185/ Hour
JD 605C Trackloader 4-1, Ripper $165/ Hour
CAT 256C Skid Steer 4-1, forks $105/ Hour
Trimble S6 Total Station -Layout $120/ Hour
 

petersfamilytru

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Joined
Mar 15, 2008
Messages
137
Location
Oregon
Rates

My rates are as follows:

John Deere 490E (120) -- $120 per hour with hydraulic grapple

Caterpillar D6D -- $150 per hour

John Deere 762 -- $130 per hour

John Deere 644B -- $90 per hour

Kenworth 10 Wheel Dump -- $70 per hour

Kenworth Tractor with bottom dump -- $85 per hour

These are the rates, but I usually end up reducing them for jobs that last more than a couple days.
 

Dwan Hall

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Nov 10, 2004
Messages
1,029
Location
Juneau, Alaska
Occupation
Self Employed
TB070, 975 bobcat, 906 cat loader, my AW grader, $150/hr. 100 ad Bomag, 778 New Holand SS, 10/12yd dump truck, snow plows, $100/hr. Hand operated power tools @ $75/hr.
When fuel goes over $4.00/gal everything goes up $25.
Job move in $150. minimum for any job is 4 hours.
33% profit margin on any supplies or materials used on the job.
Verbal estimates are free but anything requirering itemized written estimate are charged out @ $100/hr. which is applied as credit if awarded the job.

I like to gross between $1000 and $1500 a day 5 days a week if possible.
33% for overhead, 33% for wage, and 33% for profit. So far I have been able to fall in this area.
 

Monrad

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Joined
Mar 21, 2008
Messages
66
Location
New Zealand
Occupation
Monrad Earthworx
ZX120 Hitachi getting me $108hr at the mo but will wind that up to $115 probebly in the next month or two. Will def put it up to $112 in about 1 weeks time.
This is in New Zealand
Transport to Job is $115
 

Monrad

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Joined
Mar 21, 2008
Messages
66
Location
New Zealand
Occupation
Monrad Earthworx
$130 and thats US, **** think I had better put my rates up I reakon we are to low over here in New Zealand. I have been thinking about ringing around and getting all the contractors to put prices up otherwise it is to competitive, although most my clients have been clients for years and years. Am trying to target more construction work now as agricultural work doesn't really do it for me anymore.
 

Monrad

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Mar 21, 2008
Messages
66
Location
New Zealand
Occupation
Monrad Earthworx
Just a one off cost of $115 For everybody, pretty much all our work is within a 30 km radius, for any out of area jobs I just charge that figure twice or three times.
 

donlang

Charter Member
Joined
Nov 1, 2003
Messages
46
Location
North of Pittsburgh, Pa
Occupation
Owner- full service excavating firm
Pittsburgh, Pa Rates

The rates here are below what I think they should be:
315 CL Excavator (150 size) $100 / hour
420D-IT 4x4 extendahoe, bucket & forks $75.00 / hour
953C (2001 MODEL) $100 / HOUR
Cat 277 Track Skid Steer, buckets or forks $70 / hour
Tandem Axle Dumptruck $65 - $70 / hour

With fuel pricing being so volatile, it is difficult to even publish rates. Prevailing wage projects are bid $20 per hour higher (usually).

The trucking industry has put out a fuel surcharge here. Somehow, it has become an accepted practice..........the only problem that I have with it is that from the time that you bid the job to when the job starts, the price changes. Most often, owners want you to live up to your bid price.

Nobody said that the excavating business would be easy............

:usa
 
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