[jstanovic]

I’ve been self employed for just over 10 years. I used to work 50hrs a week but only really got paid for 30-40 of them (depending on what happens). Paperwork, emails, quotes, site meetings, cancelled/postponed jobs, etc etc there is a a lot of downtime. Sure, if you’ve got a contract or arrangement that guarantees you 10hrs work a day then you wouldn’t be charging $90/hr or whatever. As a rule of thumb there are 6 billable hours in an 8hr work day (sometimes 2 sometimes 8). Your hourly rate needs to cover all the downtime relating to your work, unless you can itemise every minute if your day and allocate it to the associated job. Good luck with that!!