So, your math just jumped to about $114,400/year or more if they want to work 10 hours a day and sunday and motzei shabbos that number can go to $250,000+
Why do you think that the 5 (or 8, if you must insist) does not include working these time???
It's impossible to write that much a day mehudar. Maybe mivtzoim mezuzas, maybe... not mehudar, not in a million years.
Not sure I follow.
Based on what I read in this thread. Mezuzah costs $150 sofer gets $100. Mezuzah costs $275 sofer get $100.
Sure seems there is no relation.
You guys complaining are throwing random numbers at the wall and complaining when the price changes.
I did not see anyone on this post or anywhere else say that no part of the increase went to the sofer.
It could be argued (and i am) that the sofrim were underpaid to start.
EVERYONES cost of living has gone up - the sofer, the klaf maker, the maagiim, the stores, and any middlemen that there may be.
Not to mention at first a sofer can do 5 max per week now they can do 8 per week, that changes the math a ton. Also these guys with back pains, do they work out in general?
up to 8 average it out over a year and mehudar sofrim are doing closer to 5 per week.
No writing on YT and chol hamoed, taanisim 3-4 weeks of no writing . Before YT prodution rate may go down anyway becuase they have yt prep to take care of.
personal days when they need to take care of family or personal issues - no work no income.
days when the weather conditions are not conducive to writing - wrong humidity levels
Time to choose klaf - its a skill, every sofer has his particular preferences in how
etc etc etc ורבות הם ואי אפשר לפרטם
I'll do you a favor, if you want I'll go round to the sofrim who sit in the area of the mir and take an unscientific poll of how many they produce a week...
And FTR I know many people who sit with just moving there hands and eyes for 14+ hours a day 6 days a week, they are called lawyers.
I guess the posture is different though?
Yes. and people binge watching TV. but they aren't producing intricately detailed tiny, halachikly complex works of art.
Also I can't believe I got dragged into this about sofrim when all this thread is for, is the price increase and why it happened. I love sofrim and think they should be paid well for a vital service to our community.
OK if you think so, what
should they be paid? What is an acceptable markup for the local retailer? The answer to this directly affects the price of a given piece of stam.
Anyway, point of this thread was never what a sofer's salary should be or not.
DDF 2022 Why are there never any price mistake deals on Mezuzas posted?
At the end of the day, your complaint is on the sofer, (or your local retailer) for making too much money
But by all means start a Jewish salary thread for .... mashgichim etc.
I think that one may be this:
https://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=130552.0
I run a tefillin project where we buy tefillin for those just beginning their interest in yiddishkeit and want to wear tefillin and I’ve run into this issue as well. The sofrim are busy writing sifrei torah. Is was worse a few months back and has gotten better. I’ve also seen a slight bump in price but not too much(for peshutos)
you should be less effected by the ST writers, as generally pesutos writers are not writng sifrei torah.
September 2017 ILS to USD: $0.29.
September 2022 ILS to USD: $0.30.
From someone whose financial savvy I respect, thats about the least enlightening or releveant statistic you could post.
in that time, the USD to ILS rate (which is the one i see) has been as high as 3.8 and as low as 3.08
So say the sofer bought the hides in USD when the the exchange rate was disavantagous to him (3.8 ), and the sofer sells the compleated mezuza back to the us when the rate is disavantagous to him (3.1)...
