Come up with a cost for inspections on a per hour basis remembering this cost is to include the inspector's hourly salary, cost of benefits (healthcare, retirement, FICA), and consider the use of the inspection vehicle and wear and tear and fuel used. And there is the time after the physical inspection, back at the station to enter all this info into the computer programs and write reports as needed. In this chapter, one fire dept charges a flat rate of $100.00 per hour, is this fair price for inspections? Another fire dept charges per square footage of the building. In the town you live in, what does the fire dept charge by