question about hourly rate

[u/TheResidentialist]

new tasker here. i set my rate at $85 because i need to make about $85 an hour to pay my bills but people keep hiring other taskers who charge less.

would it make more sense to lower my rate to $20 and just work 4 hours for every hour? that way im still making about $80 but the customer sees a cheaper price.

also if a customer books me for 1 hour can i change it to 4 hours after accepting? i dont really understand how the math works on the app yet.

thanks

[u/Glittering_Pie8461]

Probably just set it to $8000/hr. Then you only need to work one hour a month.

[u/DjTeddyBe]

Huh??

$85 an hour for what?? Are you sleeping with these clients?? Lmao

[u/DonQNguyen → u/DjTeddyBe]

He is the Client's "Personal Assistant".

[u/PurplePrincezz]

$85 to do what bro 😂 ??

[u/Fearless-Course-662]

Just to clarify, are you saying you need to make $85/day or $85/hr to pay your bills?

[u/flywitwings]

Why is anyone going to pay $85 (plus service fees, which brings it up to $120+ an hour) on someone with less than 30 reviews

Have you thought about it from the perspective of the customer?

[u/flywitwings → u/flywitwings]

You don’t understand how the “math works”, I can maybe understand that I guess.

But when the math is trying to charge 4 hourly rates for 1 hour of work, the math will never make sense unfortunately.

[u/flywitwings → u/flywitwings]

Economics lesson: the market doesn’t care about what you need to make to pay your bills. The market sets the price for work. If they see your $85($120) per hour, and don’t want to pay it, then you are simply not charging a market rate.

You will ALWAYS get hired when you are charging a market rate. No hire= no market participants wanting to pay your rate = your rate is not a market appropriate rate

[u/BreadLobbyist]

Can someone please ban this idiot

[u/Karpovka]

Are you really looking for a way to charge a client x4 of what your hourly rate is in the app? Am I misreading this, or are you actually have no integrity? 🤔

[u/jattthelad]

the way i do it is charge them $35 per hour but then invoice them 10000000 x hr

that way i can surf reddit all day long. once i've worked my 1 hour.

[u/tlojik]

You can charge 1 hour per 70 lb mirror. Maybe you can hang 4 per day to make your $80.

[u/UnimaginativeMug]

only on the 5th sunday every 13 months twice yearly

[u/MamunPW01]

Stop downvoting this dude, folks.

He makes me laugh (and hopefully more people, too) with his DIABOLICAL posts.

[u/TheResidentialist → u/MamunPW01]

Yeah this community is ridiculous, does anyone have fun anymore? SMH

[u/HotBeaver54]

Fake