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It doesn't have to be tedious or complicated to price your work properly. Following the simple formula below will help ensure that you walk away from the project with money in your pocket.

PRICING FORMULA: [Materials + Labor + Overhead + Profit = Project Estimate]


It All Adds Up – Keeping Track Of Your Material Costs
Materials are all of the tangible products that go into completing a job. These can range from screws and nails to equipments and Computers. To keep track of the materials that go into a job, keep a written record of the cost for each item in a job file. Don't forget to include the taxes you pay. TIP: If you’re involved in large-scale projects, try to take advantage of the volume discounts that our technical support organization offers.


Different Strokes For Different Folks - Calculating Your Labor Costs
A variety of skills can go into any given project and each of these skills can be billed at different rates. For example, a qualified system administrator can bill at $150/hour while network work may be billable at $250/hour. When pricing a project, calculate your labor costs at the appropriate rate for each of the areas of expertise. A good way to determine an appropriate labor rate is to find out what other professionals in your area are charging. Remember, it may be tempting to discount your labor costs to meet or beat a competitor, but in the long run, most professionals find that sticking to their guns pays off.


Overhead But Not Out Of Mind
This is where many professionals go wrong. Doing business involves a variety of overhead costs, and good business people build their overhead into their price estimates. Labor, system repair and replacement, gasoline, travel, and phone charges are all examples of overhead expense. Calculating your overhead may be a tedious task, but one that is required nonetheless. Your overhead expenses should be added into your overall labor costs.

Example: 22-Hour Job
 - Initial Labor Costs = $3300 (22 hours at $150/hour)
 - Plus Overhead Expenses = $895 (itemized below)
        System = $500
        Travel = $50
        System Repairs = $150
        Gas = $38
        Phone = $12
        Network diagnostic = $145
 - Total Labor Costs = $4195


Making It Worth Your While
The last item to include into your project estimate is your profit. Most professionals agree that adding an additional 10% to 25% of your labor cost is an acceptable profit. This is often dictated by competition, and the current economic condition, but a 15% to 20% profit is acceptable for good work.

It's A Wrap
The figures above are, estimates and examples of how to price your work. Individual jobs may require more materials, less labor, more overhead, or any combination of these. Above is an example of a how you should calculate your project estimate and how to present the final project estimate:

 

 
 

The 1969 edition of the Dictionary of Jamaican English lists reggae as "a recently estab. sp. for rege", as in rege-rege, a word that can mean either "rags, ragged clothing" or "a quarrel, a row".[1]

Reggae as a musical term first appeared in print with the 1968 rocksteady hit "Do the Reggay" by The Maytals, but it was already being used in Kingston, Jamaica as the name of a slower dance and style of rocksteady.[2] As Reggae artist Derrick Morgan stated:

We didn't like the name rock steady, so I tried a different version of "Fat Man". It changed the beat again, it used the organ to creep. Bunny Lee, the producer, liked that. He created the sound with the organ and the rhythm guitar. It sounded like ‘reggae, reggae' and that name just took off. Bunny Lee started using the world [sic] and soon all the musicians were saying ‘reggae, reggae, reggae.[2]

Reggae historian Steve Barrow credits Clancy Eccles with altering the Jamaican patois word streggae ("loose woman") into reggae.[2] However, Toots Hibbert said:

There's a word we used to use in Jamaica called 'streggae'. If a girl is walking and the guys look at her and say 'Man, she's streggae' it means she don't dress well, she look raggedy. The girls would say that about the men too. This one morning me and my two friends were playing and I said, 'OK man, let's do the reggay.' It was just something that came out of my mouth. So we just start singing 'Do the reggay, do the reggay' and created a beat. People tell me later that we had given the sound it's name. Before that people had called it blue-beat and all kind of other things. Now it's in the Guinness World of Records.[3]

Bob Marley is said to have claimed that the word reggae came from a Spanish term for "the king's music".[4] The liner notes of To the King, a compilation of Christian gospel reggae, suggest that the word reggae was derived from the Latin regi meaning "to the king".










Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.

Reggae is based on a rhythmic style characterized by accents on the off-beat, known as the . Reggae is normally slower than ska but faster than rocksteady. Reggae usually accents the second and fourth beat in eachbar, with the rhythm guitar also either emphasising the third beat or holding the chord on the second beat until the fourth is played. It is mainly this "third beat", its speed and the use of complex bass lines that differentiated reggae from rocksteady, although later styles incorporated these innovations separately.

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