PS. - Your total translates to $22.50 an hour before expenses which I could not possibly pay my self-employment tax (7.75% (I think), i.e., less $1.74 from that hourly rate), my gas, my office costs of equipment, telephone, email services, supplies, etc. You were down to probably under $10.00 an hour. Time well-spent for all of us would be to calculate our monthly offfice expenses etc. and figure out the cost per hour to operate your business, and that includes spreading the earnings of the billable hours into the non-billable hours - you have to be paid for the time you spend on operating your business, billable or non-billable and it would have to include all office equipment and the average month cost expended on new and improved equipment, etc.
Another way you might be able to help with costs if you cannot afford a full-time employee is find a high school student who gets work release program of a couple hours a day and earns high school credit. You could pay them for a couple hours a day, while you were also there preparing your reports, to fax, invoice, whatever, at minium wage - and they probably would much rather do that than work in a fast food restaurant.
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