Percentage of job to tech

[adamh]

I have always paid salary . From now on I am going to go base pay plus %.

I was thinking $1000 a month plus 20% of the job.

What do you do?

 

[hogjowl]

Just do 20%
You think your guy is a freakin rocket surgeon or something?

 

[steve_64]

Percentage for tech hourly for idiots.

 

[Mikey P]

30% by themselves
20% with a helper ( helper is hourly $20)

Large two truck projects the two leads get 13%, helpers get hourly plus 2%


$5 left over for me..

 

[BIG WOOD]

I think it all depends on what you're gross income is every week. Are you making $2500/week with some room to increase or is your setup bringing in $5000/week?

And what does your current employees think about this change? Or are you starting fresh with new people?

 

[adamh]

New guys only

 

[Chris A]

I do hourly plus commission on upsales. I base the hourly on production and review it every 6 months

 

[Acp]

Always done salary per month, which increases in the busy season but stays at a set amount through slower season.

This has me thinking I want to try some sort of base plus %.

 

[BIG WOOD]

Always done salary per month, which increases in the busy season but stays at a set amount through slower season.

This has me thinking I want to try some sort of base plus %.

Why is salary better than hourly wage in this business?

 

[sassyotto]

back when we had employees we were strictly hourly. When we joined STOP (Mack Clark) we switched to commission. MAN was there an uproar so I said lets stay at hourly for one month but keep an eye on what you would have made if we went to commission. After a week, they begged to go to commission.