What's you average job value ?

[Homer J Simpson]

Mine are:-

Smallest job - £37.50 (don't ask!)
Biggest job - £9.5k
Average job - £3.1k

What about you ?

 

[RMConeyCarpentry]

Smallest £60 (mates rates)
Average £500
Biggest £600 (I really need some bigger jobs)

Any reason why your doing this or you just bored

 

[Homer J Simpson]

Just bored (and nosey).

 

[Paul_Rosser]

I would answer but not sure I count as a tradesperson

 

[S-Marketing]

I would answer but not sure I count as a tradesperson

We don't want any office dwelling consultants round here.

 

[Paul_Rosser]

As I spend most of my time in factorys and building sites I won't take offence!

 

[TecD]

Im new so far.....

Smallest £0
Biggest £0

Anyone interested in office printers?

 

[Homer J Simpson]

I would answer but not sure I count as a tradesperson

Go for it, join in!

 

[SqueakyHinge]

smallest this year £90

Largest £18k

Average is 4k

This is for domestic installation.

 

[Paul_Rosser]

Go for it, join in!

OK then

Smallest - £3k

Biggest - £18k

Average - £6k

 

[tony84]

If were including office type people im getting in on the action...

Smallest £350
Biggest £2.5k
verage £550

 

[Paul_Rosser]

It's all relative though, a £500 job which takes you a day is better than a £2000 one which takes 3 months.

 

[Taper]

Smallest job - £90
Biggest job - £30k
Average job - £1k

 

[MorrisChesterfield]

Hi

Smallest - £20
Biggest - 1850
Average - 600

 

[swankypants69]

Smallest 10p

Biggest £1200

Average £6 (guestimate)

 

[mobious]

Smallest 10p

Biggest £1200

Average £6 (guestimate)

10p? really? I suppose its enough for a mixup....

 

[Task-Media]

Smallest: £300
Biggest: £1900
Average: £600

 

[Homer J Simpson]

My figures remain pretty much the same. Any updates? Anyone won a massive job? Any new posters want to share?

 

[RMConeyCarpentry]

Hi homer

Only update from my last post my biggest job came in at £1950


Reece

 

[Beachcomber]

My figures remain pretty much the same. Any updates? Anyone won a massive job? Any new posters want to share?

Done a few 5 - 6k quotes recently and it's looking pretty good on those which is nice.

Personally I prefer the 2 / 3 day jobs rather than the 2 / 3 week ones as I like to mix it up a bit.

 

[Mpg]

Avg just shy of £10

But we do Lots

 

[beasty]

why do so many people seem to get banned from this forum?

Reading old posts loads of people seem to be banned?!

This thread has 2 such people.

 

[Homer J Simpson]

Dunno, I see quite a few posts from banned members. Some of them usually offering good advice. But I'm guessing they ended up in a bit of a heated debate and took it too far? Some have been long(ish) members so doubt it was for spamming etc.

 

[PDW Electrical Services]

Smallest about £60

Usual around £5-600

Biggest £16k

 

[dmckellar]

smallest to date - £23 but we wont go on site purely for 1 small job such as that. around 35 minutes work

largest on particular site just now is £211.00 which takes me 6 hours

low figures but doesnt take long to make the money

 

[Homer J Simpson]

Just finished a £4,400 job. Over-ran by several weeks due to incompetent plumber

Job really wasn't worth doing in the end, small margin. How's everyone else doing?

 

[Homer J Simpson]

Anyone else for updates?

My biggest now £12k
Average is £3.8k

 

[Paul_Rosser]

Biggest now £50k.

Smallest was £0 (mates rates)

Averages is £7k

 

[Cloudcandy Sales]

Smallest - £10k
Biggest - £25k

 

[Tech4Homes]

Smallest - £65
Biggest - £450k+, often quote bigger.
Average - £20k

 

[Homer J Simpson]

I'm clearly in the wrong line of work!

 

[Tech4Homes]

I'm clearly in the wrong line of work!

Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity and all that.... bigger jobs mean more staff, more overheads, etc, MORE STRESS haha.

 

[Paul_Rosser]

Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity and all that.... bigger jobs mean more staff, more overheads, etc, MORE STRESS haha.

Depends on the industry, out staff, overheads and stress have remained the same since we started.

But turnover is very much for vanity, profit margins are what matters.

 

[Homer J Simpson]

Yes, but there is usually more profit, maybe not as a %, but as £.

Had a recent job for around £4k, ended up losing around £400 on it. Should have walked away from the beginning when we didn't get our rates. Work was slow so we took it on. All it did was waste time and cost us money, both of which could have been used to find & win better and more profitable jobs.

Who'd want to run their own business eh? Oh yeah, us lot of loons!

 

[Tech4Homes]

Yeah the big jobs can make some decent money, unfortunately it's just as easy to lose it sometimes, especially when a contractor does a bunk with £80k of your hard earned, but this year we are absolutely on fire, we have a couple of big jobs at £120k+ each running simultaneously, but the £3-10k jobs are were it's at right now for margins.

The big jobs are great and make big profits but usually spread over 6-12 months whereas we can usually get 10 x 10k jobs done in a month with higher margin % - to do so means needing more people to do it, manage it etc. It is however lower risk and usually better for cash flow.

I only mentioned the stress as we're growing rapidly again and haven't grown the management side just yet so it's rather busy. There doesn't appear to be as much skilled labour around anymore either, I read an article last week about a top London firm that were turning down £1 million of work a week because they couldn't get the staff for it. Crazy.

 

[Homer J Simpson]

I read an article last week about a top London firm that were turning down £1 million of work a week because they couldn't get the staff for it. Crazy.

I can only dream of being in that position!

 

[Paul_Rosser]

We aren't quite at the million pound a week level but we have turned down around £200k of work this year.

 

[tony84]

We aren't quite at the million pound a week level but we have turned down around £200k of work this year.

Im not quite at the £200k level, but Ive turned down about £3-4k...

I really hope someone quotes mine and puts £200 or something now

 

[Paul_Rosser]

Im not quite at the £200k level, but Ive turned down about £3-4k...

Like a lot of companies when you first start doing business with other people you don't really know what they will be like to work with. Over the past 12 months we have been getting rid of our C/D class clients and working hard to retain the A/B ones.

Seems to be working as we now only have clients left which we really like working with, so stress levels have gone right down.

I really hope someone quotes mine and puts £200 or something now

Lol