Hey, here's what we do. We are in Olympia, WA and don't know how to really price our services, so we use rules of thumb.
The principals work an average of 2500-2700 hours a year, the "senior" assoicate engineers are PEs who just got their license, and the associate engineers are EITs with more...
Maybe the guy is not motivated.
There may be several reasons. Have you taken a direction he disagrees with? Have you and the other partner overruled him on a matter of business or a technical issue? Is he a passive agressive type? What about cultural issues, some people are not as...