Uh, now I'm actually READING the damn books!

Mits, page 98.
Binding Elemental Guards
"Once an elemental is bound in this manner, it no longer counts against the Mage's charisma limit for bound elementals."

So, no problems there, thank god.

Say Joe-average Elf wagemage can whip up a Level 7 elemental every week, all he needs is to get at least 1 success so he can make sure the bosses love-nest is secured from prying eyes/extraction teams.

Why permanent Wards?
Well, say you have a 2 magicians, total magic is 12.
if you have 2 people, that's 200/hour
For level of ward, let's say 9 (Cost so far, only 1800)
That's nine fraggin' hours, then they roll 2 x 6d6. (Magic attribute)

From The 3rd Edition Core rules, Page 174
Wards
"The number of successes determines the number of weeks that the ward stays up."

The mages don't sit there in the role of reactive armour, that's Astral patrolling No, these guys get in tune with the area to be warded and after a while...

Finishing up on their non-stop day, they look at each other in unspoken query. With a shrug, they turn to the manager and say, "Sorry chummer, you'll see us in a week, you know how it is."
(I was averaging 1.5 successes with 2 x 6d6)

Most companies hate variables like this - those mages could be doing something else, like enchanting

The smart or magic-heavy companies would splash out, once, on some nth-level initiated security guru (Or team of them) who has the knowledge, the specific foci, l33t skillz, etc. and cover a much bigger area at the same time.

Sure, the two magicians are fine as a stop-gap method or low-level (ie: 4-6) wards, but if you want an area to not really show up as being protected, just hire the big gun and pay the man for some smoking 12th level masked wards.

But did you find some rules apart from the ones I quoted? Anyone?

-Tir

Wheep, I thought I'd checked that. Regardless I think you're lowballing the price.

From SR3, page 174:

Note that it says nothing about time spent creating the ward, which I think you're assuming. For every hour the ward is up (and probably the initial warding ritual as well), it's 100 nuyen/hour. There's very little reason to give up a ¥72,000/month revenue stream for a one-time payment, especially when you consider that it take a little bit of who you are and never gives it back.

~J

Unlikely. There'll certainly be demand for it - because it is cheaper in the long run - so somebody will supply it... possibly somebody who had no hope of getting the job otherwise. And because somebody will supply it, everybody will supply it, because getting paid once is better than not getting paid at all because the customer went with someone who'd give him what he wanted.