$199 per hour shop labor rate
I was floored today while at General RV. Their new 2018 labor rate charged is $ 199 hr. I had to look twice. It goes up every year. 5 hours working on your rig ... $1000 bucks, not including parts.
Forum Discussion
Another trend to worry about . . . Farm equipment manufacturers are starting to use the computer control to require all work to be done by the dealers. John Deere, for example has the computer on a combine or tractor programmed to require a dealer password to allow major new parts to work on the machine. If the farmer installs a new or used part on his combine in the field a dealer tech must come and authorize it to work. A typical fee for that is $500. Here is a Video about this and a group trying to fight it.
