re: Plumber rates in your area

The technicians in my business are harder to come by and the bests make about $35/hr, and we are charging $150/day. We're charging large industrial customers that rate, and the really big customers, like Exxon and Shell and Honeywell, we just charge a full day rate no matter what.

To think you can charge $200/hr for residential plumber issues is just ridiculous.
I had two plumbers come over and quote me to run a gas line in my attic to my kitchen so i could put a gas stove in and both wanted $1,200. It was less than $150 worth of material, and both said it would take them about 2-3 hours at most to complete the job. And i told them both, you guys are out of your mind if you think i'm going to pay you more per hour than a fricking doctor makes.