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The way most auto techs are paid Is called flat rate. That means a given job has a given labor time and the shop charges the customer and pays the tech accordingly. The shop labor charge is not what the tech gets paid not even close. The shop I worked for charge $105 an hour labor but I only got 25 and I was the highest paid in the shop. And for the most part thats fair and its worked for a long time. The problem comes from warranty work Where the labor time for that could be 50% of the normal labor time so you end up doing the same amount of work for half the price because a corporation wanted to give something a warranty. Now say your a fresh out of school tech and you land a job at a dealership. they start you off at 12 bucks an hour Then you go to the tool guy and finance $40k worth of snap on tools. Now after 3 weeks of work you realize that all the work you get is warranty work cause your the low bitch on the tree and that 12 bucks an hour doesn't sound so good. So you end up work 10-11 hours a day 6 days a week realizing you should of just started working at mcdonalds or something and made almost the same with out all the stress lol well at least on slow weeks. So basically the customer gets fucked the tech gets fucked and the shop makes bank and there is to many techs lining up to get fucked for it to ever change. Now there is places that aren't like that fleet repairs and the like often don't pay flat rate and its easy 9-5 but those jobs are kinda rare and have people lined up to get at them.
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The way most auto techs are paid Is called flat rate. That means a given job has a given labor time and the shop charges the customer and pays the tech accordingly. The shop labor charge is not what the tech gets paid not even close. The shop I worked for charge $105 an hour labor but I only got 25 and I was the highest paid in the shop. And for the most part thats fair and its worked for a long time. The problem comes from warranty work Where the labor time for that could be 50% of the normal labor time so you end up doing the same amount of work for half the price because a corporation wanted to give something a warranty. Now say your a fresh out of school tech and you land a job at a dealership. they start you off at 12 bucks an hour Then you go to the tool guy and finance $40k worth of snap on tools. Now after 3 weeks of work you realize that all the work you get is warranty work cause your the low bitch on the tree and that 12 bucks an hour doesn't sound so good. So you end up work 10-11 hours a day 6 days a week realizing you should of just started working at mcdonalds or something and made almost the same with out all the stress lol well at least on slow weeks. So basically the customer gets fucked the tech gets fucked and the shop makes bank and there is to many techs lining up to get fucked for it to ever change. Now there is places that aren't like that fleet repairs and the like often don't pay flat rate and its easy 9-5 but those jobs are kinda rare and have people lined up to get at them.