Rates For Service Engineers

Anywhere between 50 USD and 500 USD per day, plus travel, accommodation, medical insurance and expenses. It depends on the difficulty of the job.

I would have to comcurr with that.

I like to add, it has been awhile, but there was also an up front charge of $2500.00 plus expenses.

This $2500.00 and expenses charge was nogotiable if it was near their office.

Thanks to all so far.

Is that $2500 a one-off set-up charge, or annual?

it was a one off. At the time I thought it was pricey and it was but still worth it putting back on line. But we needed them. As it turned out, the last time we needed them, I called, response was, they would here tomorrow. Tomorrow never came. The third day, I did the servicing myself. One year later they were out of business. Look at the value of the unit being taken off line for service, this helps.

Yes, a stiff up front fee, plus daily expenses, travel, etc.

They have to calculate, what their problem is worth in loss of productivity (and that is a lot).

You have to calculate to keep alive in style inbetween, plus keeping yourself on the bleeding edge, to be in demand.

I cannot do either for your profession, but, you can sit down and do it. After a few iterations, that is.

Go for it, Man!!

I have following experience about service charges for engineers from Europe for Asian countries:

1. Standard charge about 125 Euro per hour for 8 hours in day time (1000 Euro per day). It varies depending on level and country. Over time beyond 8 hours or night work or Sundays are charged 25% more. Holidays are charged 50% more.

2. Counting the days to be charged starts from the day engineer leaves headquarter. Travel charges are extra. Some organizations charge mobilization allowance in place of it for each thoroughfare.

3. Insurance and taxes in engineer's country is included in charge rate, but taxes in customer's country are generally on account of customer.

4. Emergency medical aid, local transport, lodging, boarding and other logistics on customer's account.

Chaep="Have fun storming the castle".

Thanks again to all.

Just to clarify, I'm not going to be doing this servicing work myself unless there's a catastrophic breakdown (tho' I'll probably be doing the installation and commissioning).

We're currently negotiating with a client to whom we hope to supply the equipment, and they want (quite reasonably) to know how we intend to provide service (both in and out of warranty) and how much it is likely to cost after the warranty period.

The actual locations in which the equipment will be installed is not yet known.