National AutoBody Research launches VRS labor rate survey in New Mexico

Feb. 8, 2016
National AutoBody Research (NABR) has launched the New Mexico VRS Labor Rate Survey, sponsored by an anonymous New Mexico collision repairer.

National AutoBody Research (NABR) has launched the New Mexico VRS Labor Rate Survey, sponsored by an anonymous New Mexico collision repairer.

The online survey is free for all New Mexico collision repair shops and can be found on the NABR website.

The New Mexico VRS Labor Rate Survey provides the state's collision repairers with an independent, third-party, trusted survey of state-wide labor rate data. The VRS reports the true, market-based rate ranges throughout the state of New Mexico, based on shops' actual prices, not on one artificially defined single prevailing rate for all repairers.

"For years, collision repairers around the country and here in New Mexico have struggled to get paid what they're worth for the work they do," said the survey sponsor. "The low rates insurers pay do not reflect real market prices, but we the shops have never been able to prove that. Now, with the VRS, we can. And the system also includes the pricing tools to help us set an educated, well-informed labor rate, based on a variety of factors including our cost of doing business. Finally, we have a solution in the VRS, an independent survey and complete technology to help shops price their labor profitably and prove the real market rates."

"We're excited to bring the VRS to New Mexico and help repairers in that state get paid not only true market rates but sufficiently profitable rates," said Richard Valenzuela, CEO of NABR. "Ultimately, it is the consumer who benefits, because the right labor rates enable shops to invest in the people, training, tools, equipment, and certifications necessary to repair modern vehicles, which in turn helps ensure vehicles are repaired right and consumers are kept safe."

To the see innovative Variable Rate System for themselves, any shop may request a free, no-obligation demo of the VRS, to see firsthand how the system can help them charge and collect sufficiently profitable labor rates and get paid for more not-included procedures.

New Mexico becomes the most recent state to launch the VRS survey technology. Other states currently running the VRS Labor Rate Survey include Arkansas, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, and Utah.

About National AutoBody Research (NABR)
NABR is an independent research, technology, and consulting company committed to restoring the free market for labor rate pricing in the automobile collision repair industry, and leveling the playing field for shops to get paid for non-included procedures.

Through its innovative Variable Rate System (VRS) technology, NABR provides collision repair shops the tools they need to understand the competitive labor rates in their market, understand their cost of doing business, and calculate appropriate labor rates for their individual shop to earn a sufficient and necessary profit.

With rates from shops nationwide, NABR built the industry's first and only independent, third party, and objective source of national labor rate data, making the VRS the collision repair industry standard for market based labor rates.

The system now includes NABR's newest product, the VRS Procedures Document Search, the industry's first and only online searchable document library, showing records of insurers paying shops for not-included procedures, and enabling more shops to be paid for the work they already do.

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