average tuner income

[David M. Porritt]

Terry:

This is a touchy subject on many levels.  I have always thought, however, that a good rule of thumb was 1,000 times your tuning rate as a gross income.  That's assuming that you have some skill, some business sense and this is not your first year doing it.

dave

__________________________________________
David M. Porritt, RPT
Meadows School of the Arts
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX 75275
dporritt@mail.smu.edu


----- Original message ---------------------------------------->
From: pianolover 88 <pianolover88@hotmail.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Received: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 15:36:03 -0700
Subject: average tuner income

>I know it's hard to generalize, but I'm curious to know what other full-time 
>tuner/techs average income is per year. I will understand if not too many 
>want to divulge this info online. I'm just looking for a "ballpark", for LA 
>and other major cities or whereve. I read somehwere a while back in a PTJ 
>from about 3 years back, a little questionairre, where one of the questions 
>asked how much do you earn in a year. There were four multiple choice 
>answers listing  income ranges. On the high range was "$200,000 or more", 
>and next to it in (----) was: "average for tuners in Los Angeles". Not being 
>able to find that particular article, I wonder if that was accurate or just 
>a joke! That would basically translate to no less than $766.00 per day, 
>every day,  based on a 5 day week, or $639.00 every day, based on a six day 
>week. I've had days like that and sometimes even more, but not EVERY SINGLE 
>DAY! Of course when I think about it, that's really only 4-6 tuning per day, 
>with a few pitch raises, cleanings or extra stuff  added to the mix. For me, 
>single with no debt, (except my home mortgage) I guess I'm happy keeping my 
>work day as short as practicable. Some techs might work from 8am 'till dark, 
>but I sure as heck don't need to, and never will! I love what i do-and I 
>love ice cream-but i don't over do it. The sky's the limit if we really want 
>it bad enough.

>Terry Peterson

>_________________________________________________________________
>Check out Election 2004 for up-to-date election news, plus voter tools and 
>more! http://special.msn.com/msn/election2004.armx

>_______________________________________________
>pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives