^this. from what i’m seeing in my own experience, around $700k seems like it would probably be the sweet spot.
if it’s well managed company, the owner could pull a very nice salary and even be largely absentee with the right people in place, and the biz itself could be a valuable commodity.
How many full time guys do you think it would take to accomplish that?
9
. I know two competitor do 2-3 million average and some years they have exceeded that. It all about what services you offer they do 90%-%100 commercial with 15-30 full time employees
depends on the market, depends on the services you can offer.
in my market, 10 in the field could do it pretty easy. if i got my crap together i think i could do it with 8. and probably two full time backend staffers- one in sales/marketing/ops and one in admin.
5.38 guys in the truck
2 office staff
1 supervisor
1 sales person
thats what I figured in my market
opps I meant 10.76 guys in the truck
Are those your numbers to get to 1 million kyle, cwininger
I’d submit that if you want to have a million dollar small business one would be in a different industry. Not saying it’s impossible but very rare with window cleaning
No, that was a response to what $700 would look like for me. Scroll back to @Chris’s comment on what a Million Dollar company looks like.
It’s not really that hard. I think mainly it depends on being in a pretty large metro area.
most don’t though
My point was that’s it’s very doable in the window cleaning industry
Yes but it takes more than just window cleaning
Not necessarily
wouldn’t it just be 4.7 ft guys doing 150k a year each to get 700k?
10.76 guys means 41.70PMH doing 65k each seems awful low
other industries get 300k per year out of minimally paid employees, that’s also why wc takes so much more work and efficiency
I think the 3 mil and 5 mil would definitely include businesses that are reselling product, or builders and contractors
one could easily have a product based businesses with less than 5 employees and be at 3 mil (depending on price point of product of course)
window cleaning with no product sales, and labor as the only way of producing revenue is unique animal
look at anything vehicle related: parts, service and sales a triad of income streams all under one roof
carpet and other construction product: sales and installation
one can grow very quickly with compounding income streams
My brothers masonry and concrete company was grossing over 500k with just him One employee and laborer
But gross is different than net
Wcing maybe harder to scale up but I bet our margins are better the overhead is so low in comparison
I think most small window cleaning companies don’t have ANY net, once you factor in the owner being paid a market based wage for working like a dog 250 days a year.
yeah, that was point for everyone on that Brian
probably at least 50%+ is materials
the point being higher gross is achieved very quickly for some other industries
but as we know from simple numbers, gross don’t mean nuthin, lol
