Another year, another round of employee discount pricing. Such incentives gained popularity in the mid-2000s as all Detroit automakers rolled out alleged employee discounts for everyone on scores of models, and it’s popped up from time to time ever since. This time it’s GM, whose Employee Discount for Everyone applies to a slew of 2018 and 2019 model-year cars on its mainstream Chevrolet brand.
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How much are the savings? Which cars get them, and how long do they last? We combed the advertised deals and read a lot of fine print. We also queried Lauren Langille, a sales and brand spokeswoman for GM. Remember, as with all discounts, your price can vary depending on a host of factors — among them your location, your credit, and the particular car and dealer you choose.
Which Cars Are Eligible for Employee Discounts?
As of Dec. 27, Chevrolet listed employee pricing on all models save the Corvette sports car, Express van and Silverado 3500 heavy-duty pickup truck. Specifically, these cars have advertised employee pricing until Jan. 2:
- SUVs: Equinox, Suburban, Tahoe, Traverse, Trax
- Pickup trucks: Colorado, outgoing-generation Silverado 1500, Silverado 2500
- Sedans and hatchbacks: Cruze, Impala, Malibu, Sonic, Spark
- Plug-in cars: Bolt EV, Volt
- Performance cars: Camaro
Most deals apply to examples from the outgoing 2018 model year, a group that accounts for only about a quarter of new Chevrolet inventory on Cars.com as of this writing. But discounts on the Equinox, Colorado, Spark, Sonic, Silverado 1500 LD and Traverse extend to the 2019 model year. (For the Silverado, note that “LD” designates a carryover model year from the prior generation — not the redesigned 2019 Silverado 1500.)
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How Much Can I Save?
Quite a bit on some cars, though it depends which trim level you buy. Chevrolet’s advertised examples generally combine employee pricing with additional cash allowances, including incentives that require financing with GM. Add all the totals up, and it amounts to big discounts:
- 22.4 percent off the 2018 Silverado 1500
- 20.0 percent off the 2018-19 Spark, 2018-19 Sonic and 2018 Impala
- 18.5 percent off the 2018 Cruze
- 18.3 percent off the 2018 Trax
- 16.2 percent off the 2018 Malibu
- 15.1 percent off the 2019 Equinox
- 14.5 percent off the 2018 Tahoe
- 14.4 percent off the 2018 Suburban
- 13.9 percent off the 2018 Silverado 2500
- 12.1 percent off the 2018 Volt (before applicable tax incentives)
- 10.6 percent off the 2018 Bolt EV (before applicable tax incentives)
- 11.4 percent off the 2018 Colorado
- 8.3 percent off the 2018 Camaro
- 8.0 percent off the 2019 Traverse
Naturally, caveats abound. Advertised eye-popping dollar values — more than $11,000 off the Suburban and Tahoe, for example — apply to high-trim examples of their respective models. Employee discounts still apply to lower trims, but expect to get fewer total dollars (and possibly a different percentage discount) off those. Fleet sales are generally excluded, and the program doesn’t apply to base trims for some models.
What If I Don’t Finance With GM?
You’ll still get a discount, but it probably won’t be as much. Employee pricing “is not exclusive to financing with GM Financial,” Langille said. “The discount is greater if you choose to go with GM Financial, but not conditional upon that.”
How much could you stand to lose? Take the Tahoe’s 14.5 percent discount, which amounts to a hefty $11,152 off a loaded Tahoe Premier. Most of that number ($7,402) is part of GM’s employee discount offer, but about a third of it ($3,750) is “part of a GM Financial offer,” Langille said.
Of course, you generally can’t combine cash discounts that require financing through an automaker with special financing offers from the same automaker. Put another way, the extra cash usually requires you to finance at standard rates, not discounted rates. It’s worth shopping around for a third-party loan if GM’s standard rates seem high, but do the math to ensure your alternate offer would save more cash over the life of the loan than the discounts you’d forego by not financing with GM.
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Do Employee Discounts Vary Based on Region?
Not at their core, but your total discounts could vary based on additional incentives eligible in some areas. Employee pricing is “a national discount, so all eligible vehicles get the same pricing nationally,” Langille said. “Regional differences will occur if there are other regional cash incentives that are compatible with the Employee Discount for Everyone offer.”
Do Employee Discounts Have Any Lease or Finance Deals?
It depends. The program primarily advertises cash discounts, but some vehicles also have employee-pricing lease deals. Remember, the program can still lower your lease or finance payment simply by discounting the full price. All other factors being equal, a cheaper car equals a lower monthly payment.
Even absent discount financing rates, standard rates remain fairly reasonable even as interest rates creep upward. Bankrate pegs the average 60-month new-car loan at 4.96 percent as of Dec. 19. Offers for zero percent financing are notably absent in Chevrolet’s advertised employee pricing program, but such offers typically apply only to those with top-tier credit. Advertised rates notwithstanding, many shoppers may not have been able to secure them anyway.
What About Employee Pricing on GM’s Other Brands?
Chevrolet is the only brand right now to offer employee pricing for all shoppers. GM’s other U.S. brands (Buick, Cadillac and GMC) don’t have a similar program. But their programs are still substantial, depending on the car. The Trax, for example, is a corporate sibling to the Buick Encore — and Buick’s holiday discount program knocks the same 20 percent off most 2019 model-year examples.
Of course, GM employees remain eligible for employee discounts from those brands.
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Architect Hourly Fee Rates and what that means: that’s the subject of this page.
If your architect is charging between $100 to $250/hour, that’s in the normal fee range for Architectural fees.
Let’s do some math to see what this means on a typical project, comparing with the fee range ballpark estimator on the Fees tab of this website. Let’s get very specific. So, let’s look at the Residential Architectural Fees page and review those percentage fee ranges and see how they stack up next to the hourly rates charged by many architects.
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Let’s establish an hourly rate somewhere in the middle: $150/hour.
Now let’s look at what the actual cost of construction might be for a house. Let’s say it is about $300/HSF (Heated Square Foot). If you are one of those who think you’re going to get your architect designed custom home with tall ceilings, stone walls, fireplaces, steep roofs, 3 car garage, big kitchen with top of the line appliances for $100/HSF you need to go somewhere for about 2 years, researching these things, then come back to this website. You will, by that time, be a believer of more realistic prices for nice homes. If you want to know the truth, read on.
So: $300/HSF. We need a SF to multiply that. How about 3,000 HSF? Quite a few people these days think they want to downsize, but very few actually end up much under about 3,000 HSF.
Therefore: $300 x 3,000 = $900,000. If you have a problem with that, it’s really too bad. That’s the going rate and that’s not the upper end. It could be substantially more, like $430/HSF x 3,000 = $1,290,000.
Let’s figure that you are going to have your architect design some nice things into your house. Like a nice large kitchen with custom full-height backsplash, custom master bathroom with custom oversize 2-person shower and a host of other features. The fact that your architect designs these is the point. Not whether you build them or not. We are talking about the time it takes your architect to design and document your project, along with their other activities. Let’s call this a $900k house with 3,000 HSF, which is roughly $300/HSF. That’s probably realistic (unless the homeowner starts adding high end goodies).
Now then, let’s examine the historic fee range percentages for each phase of architectural work based on this amount. But first: why all the fuss over the actual construction cost of the house, which no one will know exactly, until the builder signs a contract to build it anyway? Well, here it is: the theory of architectural compensation is, has been, and will likely always be, in some respect, based partially on the level of complexity, size and amount of detail associated with the project they are designing.
So: once the architect has a pretty good idea of the real cost of construction (not necessarily what you want to pay to have it built, but what it will likely really cost when all is said and done), the architect can apply these percentage ranges of fees for Basic Services and the other service types, to obtain at least a ballpark idea of where their fee dollars and hours might be.
Wait a minute. How would the architect get an idea of the amount of hours he or she might spend on your project just from the realistic construction cost? Pretty simple: he or she can divide their average hourly rate into the amount of percentage fee ranges to yield a decent guesstimate of the number of hours.
And that’s not a bad idea. So, let’s try this:
Let’s see:
Likely Construction Cost: $900,000.
BASIC SERVICES historic average fee percentage: 8% to 10%.
That = .08 x $750,000 = $72,000 and .10 x $900,000 = $90,000.
So: the average Basic Services architectural fees for a nice custom home with 3,000 HSF costing about $900,000 to build might be in the range of $72k to $90k. Okay so far.
Now then, let’s apply the architect’s average fee rate to see how their hours stack up:
$72,000/$150 = 480 hours. And $90,000/$150= 600 hours.
$72,000/$150 = 480 hours. And $90,000/$150= 600 hours.
BASIC SERVICES = 480 to 600 hours +/- for this project size and complexity historically.
From architectural firm time sheets keep over several decades, this level of effort can and will take between 480 to 600 hours, so, for Basic Services, this is in the right ballpark. See how this works?
Let’s move on to ADDITIONAL SERVICES:
CABINETRY ELEVATIONS: 1% to 2%
$900,000 x .01=$9,000. $900,000 x .02=$18,000.
Then divide by the hourly rate to see the hour range:
$9,000/$150=60 hours, $18,000/$150=120.
60 to 120 hours.
Experience dictates over 110 hours, so we’re at least in the ballpark on this.
$900,000 x .01=$9,000. $900,000 x .02=$18,000.
Then divide by the hourly rate to see the hour range:
$9,000/$150=60 hours, $18,000/$150=120.
60 to 120 hours.
Experience dictates over 110 hours, so we’re at least in the ballpark on this.
ELECTRICAL SCHEMATICS: 0.5% to 1%
$900,000 x .005=$4,500. $900,000 x .01=$9,000.
Then divide by the hourly rate to see the hour range:
$4,500/$150=30 hours, $9,000/$150=60 hours.
30 to 60 hours.
Experience indicates 36 to 70 hours (for this project size), so this is well-bracketed.
$900,000 x .005=$4,500. $900,000 x .01=$9,000.
Then divide by the hourly rate to see the hour range:
$4,500/$150=30 hours, $9,000/$150=60 hours.
30 to 60 hours.
Experience indicates 36 to 70 hours (for this project size), so this is well-bracketed.
BIDDING/NEGOTIATING/COST REDUCTION ANALYSIS: 0.5% to 0.75%
$900,000 x .005=$4,500. $900,000 x .0075=$6,750.
Then divide by the hourly rate to see the hour range:
$4,500/$150=30 hours, $6,750/$150=45 hours.
30 to 45 hours.
Experience is that this can easily get into more than 50 hours, but on the upper end, we are not that far off, if it doesn’t become a prolonged event.
$900,000 x .005=$4,500. $900,000 x .0075=$6,750.
Then divide by the hourly rate to see the hour range:
$4,500/$150=30 hours, $6,750/$150=45 hours.
30 to 45 hours.
Experience is that this can easily get into more than 50 hours, but on the upper end, we are not that far off, if it doesn’t become a prolonged event.
CONSTRUCTION ADMINISTRATION: 0.5% to 2.5%
(which can vary widely depending on services provided)
$900,000 x .005=$4,500. $900,000 x .025=$22,500.
Then divide by the hourly rate to see the hour range:
$4,500/$150=30 hours, $22,500/$150=150 hours.
30 to 150 hours.
So now you see why there is such a spread of percentages and why this service must be offered and provided hourly. There is simply too many variables. Does the architect visit the jobsite once a week or once a month? Is the architect driving or flying from a distance? Are there other expenses involved? Is the architect coordinating with the Contractor on a daily basis? Is the architect processing the Contractor’s pay requests and shop drawings? Lots of variables. Most clients want everything: all of those services, but they need to realize that they will have to pay for them. The architect is usually the only person that stands between the project being built the way it was designed and big problems. Without the architect’s guidance during construction, builders and suppliers can take many liberties, without the client’s knowledge, as most owners are not well-informed about what they are seeing.
(which can vary widely depending on services provided)
$900,000 x .005=$4,500. $900,000 x .025=$22,500.
Then divide by the hourly rate to see the hour range:
$4,500/$150=30 hours, $22,500/$150=150 hours.
30 to 150 hours.
So now you see why there is such a spread of percentages and why this service must be offered and provided hourly. There is simply too many variables. Does the architect visit the jobsite once a week or once a month? Is the architect driving or flying from a distance? Are there other expenses involved? Is the architect coordinating with the Contractor on a daily basis? Is the architect processing the Contractor’s pay requests and shop drawings? Lots of variables. Most clients want everything: all of those services, but they need to realize that they will have to pay for them. The architect is usually the only person that stands between the project being built the way it was designed and big problems. Without the architect’s guidance during construction, builders and suppliers can take many liberties, without the client’s knowledge, as most owners are not well-informed about what they are seeing.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT: 0.5% to 2%
(can vary widely depending on what the client needs the architect to do for them).
$900,000 x .005=$4,500. $900,000 x .02=$18,000.
Then divide by the hourly rate to see the hour range:
$4,500/$150=30 hours, $18,000/$150=120 hours.
30 to 120 hours.
These sorts of services can be just about anything the client needs that they don’t know how to do for themselves: selecting and buying appliances, final color choices, selecting and buying tile, fixtures and other materials, representation during crises issues, coordination with attorneys and banks and other activities. However, the range indicated above may be an average spread of time. And it could be more, depending on what the client wants the Architect to do for them.
(can vary widely depending on what the client needs the architect to do for them).
$900,000 x .005=$4,500. $900,000 x .02=$18,000.
Then divide by the hourly rate to see the hour range:
$4,500/$150=30 hours, $18,000/$150=120 hours.
30 to 120 hours.
These sorts of services can be just about anything the client needs that they don’t know how to do for themselves: selecting and buying appliances, final color choices, selecting and buying tile, fixtures and other materials, representation during crises issues, coordination with attorneys and banks and other activities. However, the range indicated above may be an average spread of time. And it could be more, depending on what the client wants the Architect to do for them.
This analysis has not touched on cash items like 3D imagery. Nor Interior Design and additional Interior Architecture, which are typically hourly, additional, but can also be a premium attached to out-sourced services.
Now let’s look at ARCHITECTURAL SERVICE PACKAGES in terms of hours for each:
TIER 1
BASIC SERVICES: 8% to 10%
.08 x $900,000 = $72,000 and .10 x $900,000 = $90,000
$72,000/$150 = 480 hours. $90,000/$150= 600 hours,
480 to 600 hours
but this can and will vary, depending on complexity and project size and cost.
BASIC SERVICES: 8% to 10%
.08 x $900,000 = $72,000 and .10 x $900,000 = $90,000
$72,000/$150 = 480 hours. $90,000/$150= 600 hours,
480 to 600 hours
but this can and will vary, depending on complexity and project size and cost.
TIER 2
Basic + Cabinetry: up to 12%+/-
.12 x $900,000 = $108,000.
$108,000/$150= 720 hours+/-.
up to 720 hours.
This can and will vary, depending on details and project size and cost.
Basic + Cabinetry: up to 12%+/-
.12 x $900,000 = $108,000.
$108,000/$150= 720 hours+/-.
up to 720 hours.
This can and will vary, depending on details and project size and cost.
TIER 3
Basic + Cabinetry + Electrical: up to 13%+/-
.13 x $900,000 = $117,000.
$117,000/$150= 780 hours+/-.
up to 780 hours.
This can and will vary, depending on complexity, and project size and cost.
Basic + Cabinetry + Electrical: up to 13%+/-
.13 x $900,000 = $117,000.
$117,000/$150= 780 hours+/-.
up to 780 hours.
This can and will vary, depending on complexity, and project size and cost.
TIER 4
Basic + Cabinetry + Electrical +
Bidding (and related): up to 13.75%+/-
.1375 x $900,000 = $123,750.
$123,750/$150= 825 hours+/-.
up to 825 hours.
This can and will vary, depending on complexity, and project size and cost.
Basic + Cabinetry + Electrical +
Bidding (and related): up to 13.75%+/-
.1375 x $900,000 = $123,750.
$123,750/$150= 825 hours+/-.
up to 825 hours.
This can and will vary, depending on complexity, and project size and cost.
TIER 5
Basic + Cabinetry + Electrical +
Bidding +
Construction Administration: up to 16.25%+/-
.1625 x $900,000 = $146,250.
$146,250/$150= 975 hours+/-.
up to 975 hours.
This can and will vary, depending on tasks, and project size and cost.
Basic + Cabinetry + Electrical +
Bidding +
Construction Administration: up to 16.25%+/-
.1625 x $900,000 = $146,250.
$146,250/$150= 975 hours+/-.
up to 975 hours.
This can and will vary, depending on tasks, and project size and cost.
TIER 6
Basic + Cabinetry + Electrical +
Bidding +
Construction Administration +
Project Management: up to 18.25%+/-.
.1825 x $900,000 = $164,250.
$164,250/$150=1,095 hours+/-.
up to 1,095 hours.
This can and will vary, depending on tasks involved, and project size and cost.
Basic + Cabinetry + Electrical +
Bidding +
Construction Administration +
Project Management: up to 18.25%+/-.
.1825 x $900,000 = $164,250.
$164,250/$150=1,095 hours+/-.
up to 1,095 hours.
This can and will vary, depending on tasks involved, and project size and cost.