When considering your own wages per hour it can be helpful to consider whether you could have converted those hours into those wages or if that avenue is alread

When considering your own wages per hour it can be helpful to consider whether you could have converted those hours into those wages or if that avenue is already saturated. For example if you are an employee and establish your rate that way, you probably can't work more to get more anyway. So repairing things for yourself is just cream on top in that case.