Employee Pay

The Office Employees
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Well since a lot of you folks have employees.

1.What is the average wc employee paid per hour or what is an average commission paid?

  1. Office staff do you set salary or hourly pay?
    If it is hourly what is an average wage?

  2. Field rep (sales) hourly or commission?

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1 for residential I pay 35% commission but I know most others pay 30%. If you were going to go hourly I’d say once they were trained up $12 a hour with some kind of incentive pay.

2 would depend on the office job. Answering the phone hourly, and office manager salary.

3 sales has to be commission based with incentives or there is no reason to work hard. A good salesman needs needs goals to reach with rewards. I’m still working on mine (just started a couple weeks ago) but there are several sales goals where they can make a bonus.

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Thanks Randy.

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bump…

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I pay my employees about $18 hr on average. They are trained right. No smoking, no bad language, clean attire. Work hard.

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I contract my brother in law as part time help for some of my resi, $10 an hour for now and I’m on all jobs. Next year I plan on doing the paperwork to make him an actual part time employee, plan on bumping up to $12 for the next year. This is his first real paying job, and this is my first year in business - so it’s not bad pay. Hopefully hustle enough business in 2014 to have a crew of two by the years end.

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I think a wcbo issue coverd this the edition with the surveys

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You get what you pay for.

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on payroll, or subcontractor status?

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Payroll

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right on. that’s a good wage up there. up the avg. hourly rate> up the hourly wage> pull real talent and hold on to it.

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I pay $10 an hour, but my guy sucks with the Squeegee his main job is load/unload the truck… Set up my ladder etc… Clean screens tracks sills… No window cleaning, I do the windows.

So far its worked out for me, everything is ready for me all I do is clean the window everything else has been cleaned and prepped…

But as I grow, I’m gonna need him to be a bit more handy… He’s going to take a couple mops and squeegees and practice over our slow season(winter) at home… Once he feels he knows I will test him! If he passes the test, He will earn his BELT! He’s been bitching about not having one lol, So we made a deal he said ok…

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I start wages at $10 and go from there. 30 days, if they don’t cut it it my policy is now to just part ways then. If they pass the 30 days then it’s a $1 raise and evaluations every 6 mos. But I give raises as they are earned… Have paid a very ambitious window cleaner up to $18 and he was worth it ;). BTW all payroll not the I’m gonna pay you $10 an hour subcontractor stuff.

[MENTION=20847]Chesebro[/MENTION] I completely understand the difficulty when someone isn’t natural at a squeegee, but it’s all about training. Training doesn’t happen over night… Takes time and field training. I know it’s a bummer to leave a guy loose and your rep is at stake but it’s all part of building a business and not a job. Take the time to train him and he may just exceed your expectations. My guys get a belt the first day, so they feel part of the crew even if they are only learning to scrub glass ahead of the squeegee or cleaning seals and screens. Just my $.02 :slight_smile:

Jeremiah, Advantage Window Cleaning
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Your right! Thank you for you words of wisdom!

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We’re all learning together, right? :wink:

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Thanks for the input guys.

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If you want them to want to show up, no less than 10 an hour. Hell, I know some tree trimmer guys who only pay 6 an hour under the table— All I hear is how they can’t keep an employee—Gee I wonder why

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Give me $75/hour and I’ll come down there and ruin your business with my sloppy fanning. :smile: