The hidden [monetary] costs of skydiving.

[NWFlyer 2]

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in terms of the rates for the DZ associated rigger, 58-65 I think is the range I see

Which is why I usually don't bother going through the DZ. I figure the DZ riggers have enough work with the student, tandem, rental, and pilot rigs. I'll take my sport repack to an independent rigger and let him or her have 100% of the payment rather than passing a cut on to the DZ. The DZs get plenty of my money in other ways.

"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

[Tonto 1]

I'm a cheap bastard.

I'm only at 1 wife and $147 428 excluding the more training, more licenses, more rigs, more wingsuits, tunnel time, boogie registration fees, course costs, travel costs to go to boogies, nationals, record attempts (often international since I'm in Africa), reserve repacks, gear repairs and maintenance and a $30 000 medical bill. Two big ones are depreciation on your car (135000 miles in 5 years) and the loading on your life insurance cos you're a skydiver. (About $19000 for me so far - and I havn't even died yet.) An optional is being bypassed for promotion due to your flat refusal to work weekends, or being lower on the income ladder due to cutting away for a season or so 4 or 5 times in the past 22 years.

I paid off the pimp fees to HH by working on this site.

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It's the year of the Pig.

[peregrinerose 0]

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Typical repack is 2 hours lets say, and that is slow, but that is 22.50 an hour.

Wow, I wish I could do a repack in 2 hours. Inspection alone usually takes me an hour! I'm usually about 3 hours. But I also don't do a lot of repacks, just myself, my husband, and a few friends.

Do or do not, there is no try -Yoda

[JerryBaumchen 1,363]

Hi peregrine,

I'm with you. If I cannot devote at least 3 hours, then I won't do the repack; and it is not just a 'repack', that went out a loonnnggg time ago.

Jerry

PS) I do not do it for the money; the wage rates are too low. I also do not do it for free.