Re: Hourly rate for CAD drawings in the US ??

Synapse Syndrome wrote:
> I have been asked to do some drawings by a structural engineer in 
> California.  I will be using ArchiCAD, and tranferring through FTP and 
> getting them marked-up (redlined) on the web using a particular feauture

> that ArchiCAD has.
> 
> What I would like to know is what the typical hourly rate for CAD
drawings 
> is in the US?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> ss. 
> 
> 
Interesting permutations. Outsourcing from California - where presumably 
the labor rates are high.....

You know, I get different feelings based on where it is going to.
Paying the Social Security tax of the self employed is always a good 
idea. Try to not forget it.

But assuming everything is on the up & up, your labor rate should be as 
least as much as you could get where you are, and up to whatever he is 
willing to pay. The things that make prices in California high the 
Californians have done to themselves over the years. Aligator tears.

But the structural engineer is either a cheapskate, or stupid. Unless 
you know what it is you are drawing you will either be slow or prone to 
the kind of mistakes that are costly - his liability. That's why we have 
that pesky "under DIRECT supervision" requirement for drafting for an 
engineer in Missouri.

Doesn't seem like HE is the kind I would work for, but it's your choice.
Hard up?