prices for tuning in your country?

[Gregor Weldert]

> My price for an hour and a half tuning is $80. It seems about 40% goes out
> in taxes and operating expenses. The remaining 60% is divided up between
> housing, food, kids, and paying off student loans from when we attended
> college. Not much left over. What is it like in China? Or Germany? Or
South
> Africa? Or anywhere else?
>
> Ryan Sowers, RPT
> Puget Sound Chapter, #985
> Olympia, WA



Hi Ryan,

i pay for a 74 sqare meters  flat here in germany $520, gazoline is very
expensive: $1 each liter. (remember: i charge about $60 for a tuning).
Health insurance might be $200-400 (depends on age). But my situation is
another: because i´m not only selfemployed but also have another job, the
insurance is payed by my boss and me (half/half). So i don´t have to think
about it. Usualy the procedere in germany is as follows: as an employed your
boss and you pay 50:50 for health-, unemployment-, pension- and
nursinginsurance. If you get ill, old, unemployed or a case for nursuery,
the government pays for you (and it pays quite good in my opinion: no luxury
but no reason to worry. I know an unemployed guy who gets $1500 and have
nothing to pay for insurances. This is right now a theme for a realy polemic
disdussion in germany: no money for lazybones. Or are they no lazybones?).
The problem is: for this social safety you statistically work every year
until the 20th July only for insurance and tax, then money earning begins
for you. That´s one reason why german products are expensive (perhaps they
are high quality too).

Interessting question about tuning charge and costs of living. I will later
do a summary about that in a new mail. First i have do search for some facts
in the web.

Gregor
Germany