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Typical costs: 1  Technicians typically charge $50-$100 per hour for labor to work on the computer, but this varies by geographical location. 2  Costs for replacement hardware for Macs and PCs vary.  Motherboards range from $50 to more than $1,000 -- the more expensive models offer faster speeds and more ports.
Effective Labor Rate Effective Labor Rate â This basically is your total labor sales, or individual techâs labor sales, divided by the billed hours by the team or individual tech. For example, your shop labor rate is $80, Technician A bills 36 hours and generates $2,380 in labor sales. Take the $2,380 in labor sales, then divide by the 36 hours and you get $66.11 as an effective labor rate. You col-lected 82 percent of your door rate. At 100 percent of your door rate, the total tech labor sales should have been $2,880. I know some of you are saying that you have heard a different definition for effec-tive labor rate. That might be true, but we