Originally Posted by
Sixty Fiver
Most people have no concept of what it takes to open and run even a small shop and the $50.00 / hr rate at MEC is actually pretty low compared to most shops here.
/rant
Some of the Tampa shops have a staff of 7 or 8 on hand @ $8/hr thats a minimum of $60/hr just in labor! It aint cheap to have brick n mortar store. There's something like 2000 working hours in a year X 8 people X $8 = $128,000 in salaries!!!