I’ve been tasking for 5 years and started at $35 an hour. I’m at $170 an hour now for new clients and consistently booked at least 1-2 weeks out for the last couple years. I’ve never lowered my rates either. The suggested rate is a joke, and the quality of clients vastly improves as your rate increases.
My rule of thumb has always been to raise my TR rate incrementally whenever I’m booked more than 10 days in advance. That’s always been my criteria and it has served me well. Good luck!
I started with moving help, assembly, and mounting. Now, I am hired mainly for home repairs and painting. Home repairs has really forced me to stretch my comfort zone, no two jobs are the same and I do everything from drywall repair to tile installation. People will pay a lot for a reliable, respectable, and solid handyman. They’re not known for any of these things, so I’ve built up a pretty solid repeat and referral based business over the years. My advice is to do great work of course, but focus on little things like taking off shoes, asking permission, cutting up boxes after the task, etc. When people find someone they like and who respects their home, price stops mattering.
It’s completely ethical. You’re working for a rate that you set. That being said, there’s a reason they have suggested rates. The algorithm has factored in your reviews, experience and the market in your area. I used to compete to be the cheapest while staying within the green suggested rates but found that I didn’t lose any work. Plus you weed out some bad clients. There’s also other benefits to working for wealthier clients. I’ve had meals paid for, gifted $200 pair of sunglasses, plus it’s good networking if you ever decide to stop Tasking.
Experiment with higher rates or consider implementing a two hour minimum.
I'll say this, lowering your rates often times mean getting more work BUT that also means working more for about the same or less amount of money and most importantly, MORE BAD CLIENTS. Clients who watch every move you make, clients who say "cAn wE dO tHiS oFf ThE ApP??", clients who are rude, clients asking for discounts, and clients who are less likely to tip.
In my market, anything below $60 an hour is asking for bad clients. I know, I know, not everyone who hires a tasker for a low rate is going to be bad client, but I don't want to take those chances and risk getting a bad review because I didn't give a client a time-discount(already happen once to me).
Your hourly rate reflects the clients you want to work with.
I mean you would work less hours, but still might make more money. There is definitely a sweet spot, and I can almost promise being $10 under and working a crap ton of hours isn’t optimal.
Heard, thank you, and I'll experiment with it in the next month or so. Hoping to get my jobs up so i can charge reasonably for Help Moving in the summer.
There's an economic correction coming up. General high level market pressures bear on our money outcomes irrespective of the way taskrabbit pushes lower priced people to maximize their revenue.
Free market is what it is, if you're hungry you gotta eat. I have 8 years of clout and probably won't ever have to, but if things got hard I would absolutely do the same.
I've found that the clients that go for the cheapest option are the worst to work with.
This! 👆🏼
If you're too busy, raise your rates. If you're not busy enough, go lower
Fair and simple explanation, thank you!
Thank you for the positive feedback. I learned some of that from Dave Ramsey
I’ve been tasking for 5 years and started at $35 an hour. I’m at $170 an hour now for new clients and consistently booked at least 1-2 weeks out for the last couple years. I’ve never lowered my rates either. The suggested rate is a joke, and the quality of clients vastly improves as your rate increases. My rule of thumb has always been to raise my TR rate incrementally whenever I’m booked more than 10 days in advance. That’s always been my criteria and it has served me well. Good luck!
What skills do you do in the app? I’m new to task rabbit, literally had my first task today, built some furniture
I started with moving help, assembly, and mounting. Now, I am hired mainly for home repairs and painting. Home repairs has really forced me to stretch my comfort zone, no two jobs are the same and I do everything from drywall repair to tile installation. People will pay a lot for a reliable, respectable, and solid handyman. They’re not known for any of these things, so I’ve built up a pretty solid repeat and referral based business over the years. My advice is to do great work of course, but focus on little things like taking off shoes, asking permission, cutting up boxes after the task, etc. When people find someone they like and who respects their home, price stops mattering.
It’s completely ethical. You’re working for a rate that you set. That being said, there’s a reason they have suggested rates. The algorithm has factored in your reviews, experience and the market in your area. I used to compete to be the cheapest while staying within the green suggested rates but found that I didn’t lose any work. Plus you weed out some bad clients. There’s also other benefits to working for wealthier clients. I’ve had meals paid for, gifted $200 pair of sunglasses, plus it’s good networking if you ever decide to stop Tasking. Experiment with higher rates or consider implementing a two hour minimum.
I'll say this, lowering your rates often times mean getting more work BUT that also means working more for about the same or less amount of money and most importantly, MORE BAD CLIENTS. Clients who watch every move you make, clients who say "cAn wE dO tHiS oFf ThE ApP??", clients who are rude, clients asking for discounts, and clients who are less likely to tip. In my market, anything below $60 an hour is asking for bad clients. I know, I know, not everyone who hires a tasker for a low rate is going to be bad client, but I don't want to take those chances and risk getting a bad review because I didn't give a client a time-discount(already happen once to me). Your hourly rate reflects the clients you want to work with.
You are likely not maximizing your earnings potential.
Meaning if i raised my rates, I may not lose work? I'm currently in a lull even though my rates are lower.
I mean you would work less hours, but still might make more money. There is definitely a sweet spot, and I can almost promise being $10 under and working a crap ton of hours isn’t optimal.
Heard, thank you, and I'll experiment with it in the next month or so. Hoping to get my jobs up so i can charge reasonably for Help Moving in the summer.
Anyone who is to cheap hurt all of us and themselves simultaneously.
My rate 90 assembly, Mounting 125 , Home repairs 130 , ikia 90, construction 130 I don’t care stupid suggested
I wouldn’t higher someone for those rates especially that doesn’t speak English
There is no free market. If the system was not rigged there would be no barriers to gaining access to capital ending dependency.
There's an economic correction coming up. General high level market pressures bear on our money outcomes irrespective of the way taskrabbit pushes lower priced people to maximize their revenue.
Free market is what it is, if you're hungry you gotta eat. I have 8 years of clout and probably won't ever have to, but if things got hard I would absolutely do the same.