What people are Charging an hour to Cut??

GPWELDING · Post by **GPWELDING** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 9:06 pm

I bidding on one of my first bigger jobs the guy is supplying the metal. I just have to cut it out. Wondering if you charge per part or just do hourly?? The first set is 500 parts about 4''x5''x14G per part.. Any feed back would be Great Thanks..

Post by **twicecustom** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 9:46 am

http://www.plasmaspider.com/viewtopic.p ... eet#p27780

This has come in very handy for us.

pertneer · Post by **pertneer** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 10:38 am

If you are looking to find what you need to charge per hour see this download. It is an exe download but it is all MTI systems offers for a download. I have been looking at there Costing software and discovered this little gem. It is free to download.

As far as what i charge I use the xlsx file I downloaded from this site( I believe, but I cannot seam to find the link). It is called "CNC Plasma Price Work Sheet.xls". I does a fairly decent job if you have all current data on steel prices.

Good luck

Post by **stdave66** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 11:39 am

I don't charge time for cutting. Square area of material used (if piece is a circle they buy the square size it took to cut it), cost per pierce, cost per inch to cut. Those costs depend on thickness of material. extra charges if its a heavy sheet to manuever around the shop (3/16" or more) or I have to index the sheet for big pieces. I charge for time for complicated design(not simple shapes), fabrication, welding, painting, etc.

Post by **kbenz** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 5:19 pm

twicecustom wrote:http://www.plasmaspider.com/viewtopic.p ... eet#p27780

This has come in very handy for us.

this is the one I use also.( if they supply the mat just leave that part blank. )
great spreadsheet

GPWELDING · Post by **GPWELDING** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 8:17 pm

I just ended up doing an hourly rate of 80.00 dollars. I firgured I could run 4 parts a min so I took 80/60=1.33/4=.3325

I came up with .33 a part plus .05 per pierce

Total per part .38 cents for a part that was about 3''x5x14g

I will have orders of 400 and 500 parts

Feed back on if this price is to high are low would be great thanks

Post by **mdwalker** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 12:47 am

GPWELDING wrote:I just ended up doing an hourly rate of 80.00 dollars. I firgured I could run 4 parts a min so I took 80/60=1.33/4=.3325

I came up with .33 a part plus .05 per pierce

Total per part .38 cents for a part that was about 3''x5x14g

I will have orders of 400 and 500 parts

Feed back on if this price is to high are low would be great thanks

If I cut a 3" x 5" rectangle out of 14ga, just a straight rectangle with nothing else cut in it it would be $2.80 for 1 or $2.00 each for 20 or more.

GPWELDING · Post by **GPWELDING** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 1:42 am

Ya after looking around more I was forsure a little to cheap. I figured out a work sheet that works alittle better and got me closer to the 2.00 a part...

Wondering what everyone is charging per cut inch and per pierce???
I have seen on this form some people charging

$ .33 per cut inch.
+ $ .15 per pierce point. Factors in consumable replacement cost.
+ $ 1.67 per minute of cutting based on $100.00 per hour for machine.
+ Material cost.
+ CAD, scanning, @ $55.00 per hour.

Seems alittle High but Would be helpful to know so I can get my foot in the door with some work..

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