$7000 paint job

My car restoring/building buddy sends 1 car out to be painted on average of 10 per year...ish and the paint jobs are running 10K-17.5K, labor and materials, top of the line quality show car paint jobs. He has 3 waiting in line to go right now, with paint&body work you get what you pay for. The price of paint is crazy high now and I dont even know what good quality paint is going for per gallon. I paid $3,500 for a two tone job on my truck 5 or 6 years ago, zero body work, Dupont Imron with Dupont Imron clear on top of that and now its $11K-12K using same materials but different painter. At the time, it was $4,500 anywhere else with the same quality/skill, the price of paint has about tripled since then.