Mitchell 1 has been publishing labor estimates for the automotive aftermarket service industry in North America since 1946. Mitchell 1 delivers estimates that cover the breadth of vehicles and mechanical repair jobs, or combination of jobs, being completed through the life of the vehicle including those not covered by factory warranty. The estimates in Mitchell 1 labor guides are created through a strictly confidential and proprietary methodology that applies hundreds of years of collective industry experience, time studies and industry interactions. As a company policy, Mitchell 1 keeps this methodology confidential and does not share it. Mitchell 1 labor guides are designed to focus on labor related to the automotive aftermarket. While Mitchell 1 strives to provide the most accurate aftermarket labor guides in the industry, Mitchell 1 is constantly updating the thousands of estimates in its labor guides to reflect new information as it is obtained by Mitchell 1. As a result, Mitchell 1’s labor guides are still estimates that may contain individual errors, and Mitchell 1 is not in any way responsible for individual errors within its labor estimates.
