I paid $400 for a plumber to do 30 minutes of work this week.
A doctor has more training and a lot higher infrastructure costs and overhead, and thus a higher hourly fee.
A doctor has more training and a lot higher infrastructure costs and overhead, and thus a higher hourly fee.
I spent a couple hours on YouTube and now I can solder my own copper pipes, install a new toilet and anything else I need.
Even being a software engineer I couldn’t compete with the hourly rate of a plumber so it makes financial sense for me to do the work myself.
Plumbers have to deal with the aftermath of butts MUCH more often and they don't have the luxury of someone's insurance they can just throw arbitrarily high charges to.
There’s also the whole ‘all your clients are sick, some are contagious’ thing.
I’m not saying america isn’t insane, but to try and pretend plumbers have it far worse isn’t quite accurate.