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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My teen is getting 20$/hr (and some tips.) But he said some of his other friends are charging 50$/house (which is bizarre to me because houses are all different sizes) which ends up being 50$/hr.

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Many people's houses take more than an hour.

My kids have discovered that if they let the person paying pick the price, it's almost always more than they would have felt comfortable asking for.  This year, in particular, people are very generous.  [/quote]

And many people’s houses take far less than an hour-particularly if you don’t live in Exurblandia with McMansions.  I do agree that letting people decide what to pay is typically more generous that what a teenager should expect.

But there are exceptions.  My poor kid ended up getting 10$ after shoveling a house for an hour for an elderly neighbor last year. It’s not always that people are generous and elderly people in particular sometimes have a frame of reference from 30 years ago.  [/quote]

Elderly people are also often on fixed incomes. Honestly, I shovel my elderly's neighbor for free because I'm neighborly.[/quote]

Of course.  And that’s why my kid politely accepted the 10$ and went away even though it was sub minimum wage for freezing exhausting work.

But an adult who sets their rate professionally isn’t going to accept 10$/hr for shoveling through the ice on a day like today.  [/quote]

I'm the PP who said my kids let customers set prices.  Someone who is shoveling because their hourly job is cancelled due to snow, and they still need to pay rent and eat, shouldn't be expected to take $10/hour.  My kids are not in that situation, and shovel for elderly neighbors for free unless the neighbors insist on paying.  [/quote]

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