<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">I agree with Kary. I have been recommending $25 - $50 for fiduciary time, and maybe $15 for things like cleaning out the garage for a very long time. I’ve been thinking in King County I need to significantly raise that, especially giving current inflationary trends. <div><br></div><div>John J. Sullivan<br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPad</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Nov 3, 2021, at 7:55 AM, Kary Krismer <Krismer@comcast.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<p>I find the rates discussed here shockingly low. Are the
commissioner/judges that tight? For run of the mill decisions I
could see a low rate of $25 an hour, but for tax or accounting
work seemingly $75 an hour would not be enough. Seemingly fact
gathering or document review should be at whatever the firm's
paralegal would be charged out at for doing the same work, and
although I don't know current rates I suspect that's more than $75
an hour at most/many places.</p>
<p>I didn't charge when I was PR of my mom's estate. I guess I
wasn't being as generous as I thought.<br>
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seen as high as $75/hr approved for a PR that was doing
accounting/tax work himself, but that amount was rather
shocking. I think $25-$50/hr is more in the normal range,
and as Inge said, it should correspond with what the task
was.
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hourly rates that are being approved in King County for a
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