I’ve seen them charge anywhere from $80 per hour all the way up to $150.00 per hour.

If you go with like Sear’s they usually charge in between because they compete with the small home town appliance techs.

1. Try the U.S. Chamber of Commerce – see if they have links to a trade or professional association focused on appliance repair/service/maintenance, then see if you can get stats from them. You might also see if Small Business Administration has this info – http://www.sba.gov.

2. Check U.S. Census Bureau for information on employment in trades – you should find appliance or home repair somewhere. Not perfect figures because it’s hard to tell how they were compiled, but from it, you can make estimates on total dollars per head and therefore per industry.

3. Away from Internet, talk with your local reference librarian – they live for this stuff, and their help is FREE!

Are you doing this for homework? The whole point of a question like this is to make you do the work of creating a correct, reasonable answer. There IS NO ACTUAL ANSWER FOR THIS – what I estimate will probably differ from what you estimate. It depends on what information you tap into and what assumptions you make – just state these all clearly.

I am in Pontiac

here is a link for stuff in texas. You can also just call your local city licensing place and ask them what you need. I know you will need a tax number with the state.