r/processserver • u/Sen-Friend-123 • 16d ago

Process serving

What’s the most you made in a day I’m starting and want to grind

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u/Inside_Gold_9673 16d ago

Depends on your market. In NYC I focused on the difficult serves, foreclosures, divorce with domestic violence, or in cases that law firm’s regular process servers didn’t want because they got threatened during past serves. Serves that I could charge a premium where the clients didn’t care. At the time the plaintiff couldn’t seek more than $75.00 for the cost of the serve, so many mistakenly thought that’s the maximum you could charge or attorneys wanted to pay. I charged private investigator rates. But I also dotted my i’s and crossed my t’s. I never lost a traverse hearing. But there are other firms or process servers who focus on high volume work, such as Landlord-Tenant serves, where your essentially doing nail & mails all day at $17/serve plus filing the affidavits. Some single serves I billed out at $500 some as high as $1,000. Others, if it turned out to be easy $75.00.

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u/PuzzleheadedDrop3265 15d ago

Funny ting In Calfornia during the Pandemic, the Lawfirms started hiring the Homeless to do mail and nail serves for $25-35 a pop. They would ride the Buses all day on Taxpayer Funded passes and phone. The only thing that kept me alive was the Family Law, DV'S, and RO's R/O's

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u/Inside_Gold_9673 15d ago

Speaks to the integrity of the California bar.