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Originally Posted by yasir
His charges were something like this...
Architect: 16 hours at $70/hour ..........................$1150)
Design guy ( planning ) 72 hours at $45/hr..........$3240
Over head: .................................................. ........$2300
Profit at 10%: .................................................. ....$650
Total:............................................ ............$7200 ( approx )
The problem is....we are still no where near the end of the drawing phase and we already have the invoice for $7500....Where would this end ?
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Was the work constructive towards the end goal? If those 72 design hours were field measurements, and putting your existing house in scale, etc, then it could be money well spent. If the hours were spent designing without your input, in a different direction than you want to go, pull the plug, or have a major sit-down with him at this juncture.
While the hourly prices seem fair at first glance, he is effectively raising them by adding overhead & profit.
You are really paying an average of $7500/88hours = $85/hour.
I pay alot of professionals hourly....lawyers, engineers & architects. Never been billed this way, adding overhead and profit. They build it into their base hourly fee. How was overhead calculated? % of total bill?
How was this quoted originally? It seems he is using %of total, profit, expense, hourly, whatever is highest.....
kach22i - Good info. Have you ever seen hourly + overhead + profit billing?