Just a little "fuzzy math" here... my buddies are always so "impressed" with the car shows on TV that build an entire car in a week... Then my facts and figures mind has to jump in there and grab my little iPhone calculator... and make them eat their words just a bit.
10 people working round the clock - for 7 days - is 1680 MAN HOURS...
A shop like Brizio - will tell you their "AVERAGE" build is around 1500 hours... Remember too, that a 32 Ford highboy is a little "simpler" than what we're building around Lat-G...
Okay -- Averages are just that - and all jobs vary in complexity...
Doing the quicky calc - 1680 hours @ $35 an hour is $58,800 LABOR
@ $45 an hour = $75,600
@ $70 an hour = $117,600
You can also see how the $35 shop can easily catch up to the billable "time" of the higher hourly rate shops - if they SUCK at doing what you want.
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