Industry Rates

[daenterpri]

Hey Everyone!

I do a lot of die cut stickers, and thermal printed decals with the Gerber Edge 2. What is the going rate for either die-cut, or thermal printed decals?

For instance, what should I charge for 100 3x3 decals on white vinyl, using a single color foil?

Thanks for the help!

Andy

 

[Fred Weiss]

I think you will find a wide variation in what rates are charged. What you really need to do is to determine your shop rate which has been discussed here in numerous threads. Everyone has a different rate based on overhead , income requirements etc. Commercial software and pricing guides all provide well thought out worksheets for determining it. Looking for the price you should charge under someone else's roof is not in your best interests. You might starve to death or you might end up working very hard for very little money.

Here's a link to a thread that covers a lot of it once it finally settles into a discussion. Better threads are archived in Sales, Marketing & Pricing in the premium forums.

 

[mikey-Oh]

$2999

 

[Mosh]

$2750, I won't be undersold....Charge enough to make some money, FOO.

 

[daenterpri]

That's a great thread, Fred! Thanks. Very helpful.

 

[SignManiac]

$4,765.00 I didn't really need the job that bad.

 

[James Burke]

This thread sounds like a storyboard for the Dilbert comic strip....

 

[Malkin]

We have traditionally used a chart similar to this 13 year old one from Graphitek, which is of course very out-of-date. The format is the same, although the numbers have changed...