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im curious, do you actually make more than hourly? just lining up a new job and trying to figure out how its gonna work. bodyshop and flatrate after 3mos, boss told me its win some lose some, but it pays much better. im always told otherwise.. work 13 to get 8 sorta deal :8

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I always win on payday, but I'm not bodyshop :)

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i worked flatrate once. when its busy, the money is good, but when its slow it sucks. i like the security of my same paycheck every week, even if its less than it could be on flatrate. i have been offered quite a few jobs on flatrate and i always turn them down

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to be beat the book is all up to you. if your good at what your doing you will beat times for the most part. but when you get hung up it sucks balls.

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It depends alot on dispatch. Dispatch is what we call the guy or guys that handout the work. He can give you easy jobs that will pay you good or difficult jobs that only pay warrenty time or an electrical issue that is difficult to diagnose. I make my money no matter what he gives me because I'm fairly quick and good with diagnostics. If your a body man, I imagine that some cars would be easier to work on than others as far as the type of work that needs to be performed. All this does not mean anything if business is slow and the cars are just not in the shop for you to make your money on. I think most do prefer the guarantee of the hourly or the salary pay rather than the crap shoot that is flatrate.

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flat rate is great if your quick but have good quality work. on the repair order it will say how much time you have. that is the time you get paid for. if you take longer then the time stated, you lose money, if you do it in half the time, you still get paid the full time.

example, do a 4 hour job in 2 hours.... you get paid 4 hours.

if you good you can work a 40 hr work week and get paid for 60 hrs....

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i know HOW it works, i just haven't had the joys of flatrate, only comission and draw and was wondering whos had a similar line of work

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flatrate works for me. just gotta be efficient, work smart, and work hard. i've been averaging bout 50hrs per week, w/ 1 hoist, 1 flat.........AND have only been at this place for 1.5-2mo.

you gotta work hard, FIND some work to sell, dont count on your advisors to keep you busy or you'll end up being the one getting all the warranty/recall bullshit. i like to give every car i touch a "shakedown", find what else is wrong w/ it, there's a 50/50 chance you can get more work..........wont know unless you try.

there may be times when work is slow, but if your at a good shop there will be more good weeks than bad.......and when the work isn't there, neither am i .................. i gots ---- to do bitch

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around here some dealerships offer a guarantee on flat rate. so you will never get less than 20hrs. try asking for that it might be a long shot but its worth a try

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salary fo me, it's not too bad cause some days i get paid to do nothing, but some days i have to work my ass off and even stay late...

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I usually average 65 a week. Everyone at my works rate is low compared to other shops around the area. We have a bonus program where if you break 230 hrs in a month you get 1.00 for every hour flagged. If you do 260 you get 2.00 for every hour flagged. Were also pretty busy shop, we have around 25 techs and eveyone at least makes 50 hr a week. Plus there is always used cars or PDIs to do on your day off.

We play roulette for our jobs, Nobody hands them out per say. We have computer terminals around the shop and you just get your next job through that. When the ROs are written their is a skill level in the op code. So a new to the field "C" tech isn't going to be getting some electrical nightmare.

I love flatrate. I've been at my current job going on 6 years and have never had an under 40 hr paycheck. Have had a few 40-45 hr paychecks and they blow. But in the end if you are if you are hitting high bonus and make a TSI bonus(if TSI score is equal to or higher then district you get .50 for every hour that month) you get a decent paycheck.

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---- i'm at at a place averaging out 30 a week working 60...the ------- service advisers couldn't sell water to a man dieing of thirst in the desert.....time to go back to school... like the other thread said its a sinking ship.

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It's actually not so bad. I had two good friends, one a ford guy and the other a toyota, and they both knew their stuff backwards and forwards. It worked out great cause they were doing 10hrs work in 7hrs. And because they were so good, dispatch always gave them work. So it really depends on your skills and reputation. cause even if youre awesome, you wont get work if you dont have any friends in the shop.

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sounds like you need to find a new employer..........i was there once. working at an independent shop.......worked 45-50hrs to get paid 25-30........---- that ----



spoonfed.............damn i wish we had bonuses like that, a friends father works at another Honda dealer and he gets $1 extra per hour for everything over 60hrs and another $1 for everything over 80hrs.............makes an already kick ass paycheck even better..........85hrs @ $20-21hr.........thats what im talkin bout




to the OP.........only way to find out if its gonna work for you is to try it, ppl who are flatrate seem to like it.