How much does it cost for sandblasting services?

Price is something of an inexact science as each piece even if they are the same exact thing can vary greatly and time spent removing the paint dependent of upon the quality of job that was done the first time. Also if the piece is powder-coated it is now going to greatly increase the amount of time removing the coating as much as 10 times as long so you could expect to pay ten times as much for the same piece. In general you can pretty much figure to pay about $150 per hour to a sandblaster!  Highway robbery right?  Welp, although that does seem absurdely high its really not.  Considering that it costs over a dollar a minute just to operate the equipment you’re definitely not making anyone rich by paying this price by the time everything else comes out as far as material taxes and I’ll you may be really paying them $30 an hour to take care of your project for you.  Often times jobs will be bidded by price per square foot.  Over the years there has been a large increase from around $2.50 psf and ive heard it as high as $6 psf, although im sure there are exeptions to these prices with some going higher and some lower.