In San Diego CA I have been getting 8 1/2 Cents to 9 1/2 cents I usually go to the same yard a few times a month if I am lucky a few times a week. Sometimes when the scale operator fills out my ticket I comment on the price and he will raise it up 1 cent sometimes he does not I can not hurt to ask. I have been going there for years so I feel I am treated pretty fair. In a yard you do not use that often always ask for prices before you give away your scrap. One yard does not pay anything for scrap but as a favor they will let me drop it off, I do not use there service. If you do not like the way a yard treats you use another one, but do not burn your bridges with them you may want to go back in the future.