You make a lot of good points, but the truth is that when signing services see that their $75 or $80 offers for signings get snapped up in seconds, they have no incentive to raise their offers. If anything, they'll lower them even more, seeing how low they can go and still get notaries to accept the jobs.
Look at it from this perspective......If you spend an average of 3-4 hours total time for a signing (printing, driving time, the actual signing, dropping docs at UPS/Fedex) and you're being paid $75, figure out the hourly rate. Subtract expenses from that (supplies, ink cartridges, gas, equipment) and how much are you left with? Basically, not much more than you'd make working at McDonalds.
The above example doesn't even take into account fax/scanbacks, which add another step to the job, for which you never get paid adequately for.
All of that said, everyone has to make their own decisions and choices regarding their business. No one else can tell you what jobs you should or shouldn't accept. Everyone's situation and motives are different. |