PRICING POLICY
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No, I don't personally make $100 per hour, although I should.
I work at least 16 hours for every 4 hours of billable labor. Then, only a small portion of that goes to paying my personal salary. The rest goes to rent, utilities, insurance, fuel, shop expenses, tools, billing and bookkeeping labor, secretarial work, education, research, and the many other expenses that make it possible for me to be available to take care of your problem. When things go perfectly, I can only average about 4 billable hours a day. Things never go perfectly. The rest of my time is taken up by work that I can't charge for. Sick days, vacation, and personal days have to be taken from the pool. Most high-level technicians average $75K per year including benefits and engineers get much more than that. I'm not only an engineer, I'm a good one. Do the math. At $100 per hour, I'm not even making as much as a schoolteacher.
Don't get me wrong - I do this work because I love doing it. But don't complain about the price - it would cost you much, much more to keep a full time engineer or technician of my level on staff.
I'm here to help.