[email protected],
You are selling yourself and others in your industry short. Either you are not capable of doing the type of installation we are talking about or you are extremely underpriced.
Perhaps you are a "hook up" kind of guy instead of a custom installer. In that case $50 per hour is normal. I pay my Phast programmer $50 per hour and he is worth every dime.
You can't believe that someone could get $800 to program a remote? I am fixing someone else's installation of a phast system for $7500 labor.
Please do not sell your industry short. Are you in this industry? Do you go to CEDIA and CES?