[ansel12]

“Around my neck of the woods plumbers charge from $65 to $85 an hour.
Counting a normal working day (8 hours), normal work year (2080 hours a year), and an average plumber wage, even though it’s the plumbing company that’s charging, that’s $156,000 a year.
Most plumbers I know work more than 8 hours a day so it would probably be more than that.”

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Man are you clueless. If plumbers pay was based on that simple math then we would all be well off.

In my area plumbers are only paid for the time that they turn a wrench, not for driving, not for sitting at the shop when there isn’t a call.

As I ask my rich Southern California customers, where are the plumbers that live in your neighborhood?

Plumbing companies charge an hourly rate for an employee and his truck that actually turns a wrench from 3 to 6 hours a day.

[Just another Joe]

No, I'm not clueless at all.
When a plumber charges he charges by the hour, not by the minute.
If he fixes your pipes in 2 hours 15 minutes he charges for 3 hours.
That get's him to his next job.

I don't deny him those extra minutes. It's all part and parcel.