Not so many months ago, a local WI Gordie Boucher dealer had billboard sign advertising start mechanic at $28 and up
there was like a * there...
*if you work your ass off at 200% efficiency at 14 dollars per flat rate hour. or 150% efficiency at 17.50
I have seen shops do that here..
1 200% is almost impossible to do.
2 no shop I have seen is busy enough to have enough for work superman to turn 200%
maybe things have turned around lately, IDK I am very happy doing what i am doing now. No service adviser asking is it done yet? no customers calling every minute of the day, no waiting for approvals, no approving half the job, no complaining when the half a job repair does not fix everything..
I own the car, I approve the work and I sell it when I am done. It’s working *very* well for me.