Represent your market
If current shops do not participate, a market may be represented by older, thinner, or less complete data.
For Collision Repair Shops
Help your market be represented accurately.
BodyShopRate is building a verified labor rate intelligence platform for the collision repair industry. Your shop’s participation helps local market averages reflect current, real-world repair economics instead of stale or incomplete information.
Takes about 2 minutes. Public results display aggregated market averages, not individual shop-by-shop rate submissions.
Why Participate
Accurate markets need current shop input.
Labor rate discussions are only useful when the data behind them is current, verifiable, and gathered from real collision repair businesses.
Support transparency
Aggregated market intelligence helps shops, appraisers, insurers, and other stakeholders work from better information.
Keep data current
Rate data has a shelf life. Updated submissions help prevent old numbers from being treated like today’s market.
Reduce guesswork
Verified submissions help move the conversation away from assumptions and toward documented market references.
Build industry value
A broader shop-participation network can become a stronger, more useful resource for the collision repair industry.
Simple and free
Submitting data is quick, free, and designed to take only a couple of minutes from a shop representative.
Privacy & Use
Your shop identity is used for review, not public exposure.
BodyShopRate collects shop identity information so submitted data can be reviewed and verified before it is included in market calculations. The public search tool is designed to show market-level intelligence, not publish individual shop-specific rate sheets.
As the platform grows, this verification-first approach helps protect the quality of the data and reduces the risk of spam, manipulation, or outdated numbers entering public averages.
How It Works
A short process with review before publication.
1
Submit
Enter shop information, current labor rates, and the effective date of the rate schedule.
2
Review
Submitted data is reviewed before it is included in public market averages.
3
Aggregate
Approved submissions are used to calculate market-level averages and confidence indicators.
4
Update
Submit updated rates whenever rates change, or at least annually to keep your market current.
Common Questions
What shops usually want to know.
Will my exact shop rates be shown publicly?
Not at this time. Shop identity is used for internal review and verification. Public search results display aggregated market averages and confidence indicators.
How often should we update our rates?
Update whenever your posted rates change. If nothing changes, submitting an annual update helps keep your market data fresh.
Why is the effective date important?
Rate data gets stale. BodyShopRate can exclude older data from current market averages so users are not relying on outdated numbers.
Who benefits from better rate data?
Shops, appraisers, insurers, fleet operators, and industry professionals all benefit when market data is more current, transparent, and verifiable.
Takes About 2 Minutes
Submit current shop rate data.
Help improve the accuracy of labor rate intelligence in your ZIP code and surrounding market. Your submission will be reviewed before being included in aggregated public averages.
Individual shop contact details and shop-specific rate submissions are not displayed in public search results at this time.