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kcscleaning

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How much would you pay a carpet cleaner
« on: January 03, 2017, 04:50:15 pm »
Looking to expand my carpet cleaning business

Having problems of thinking of a pay structure, that pays employee a good basic wage, but also motivates them to do 3-4 jobs a day

I would be supplying the van and all equipment

Tim

Paul Clapham

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Re: How much would you pay a carpet cleaner
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2017, 05:13:32 pm »
I don't know any thing about you or your company, but if you are a one man band I would forget about employing anybody and just put you prices up and spend your time looking for better priced jobs,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,employing staff is a pain in the backside I used to have 17 of them  :o
This is the season for fine wine, and drunken friends, enjoy this moment, for this moment is your life.

gwrightson

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Re: How much would you pay a carpet cleaner
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2017, 06:05:11 pm »

 I am a one man band , employ nobody,

I do however on occasions pay for help on larger jobs, usually £80  to £100 per day.

Geoff
who ever said dont knock before u try ,i never tried dog crap but i know i wouldnt like  haha

Steve Chapman

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Re: How much would you pay a carpet cleaner
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2017, 06:23:42 pm »
Sub it to someone self employed and take a percentage on every job........

Lewis Newby

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Re: How much would you pay a carpet cleaner
« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2017, 07:01:43 pm »
I'd suggest a bonus scheme, where they get a basic fair wage but if they reach your target each week or month then they get a nice little extra in their pay packet

DB

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Re: How much would you pay a carpet cleaner
« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2017, 08:52:49 am »
Suggest you look on the HMRC website....there is information there that would help

John Kelly

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Re: How much would you pay a carpet cleaner
« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2017, 09:14:53 am »
Would suggest going rate is between 17 - 20,000 per year. Most add a bonus scheme where they get a percentage of any upsells.

Shaun_Ashmore

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Re: How much would you pay a carpet cleaner
« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2017, 06:56:05 pm »
Min wage and bonus them with attendance bonus, appearance bonus i.e. Uniform, bonus on quality of work, bonus on turnover.


Ian Harper

Re: How much would you pay a carpet cleaner
« Reply #8 on: January 17, 2017, 09:24:20 am »
Tim

you need to take care and protect yourself. you dont want to train up a new start in your area. a good contact is a start, then female over male, and always keep back part of the job by that i mean dont tell them how you run stuff. worked great for my domestic cleaners never had one take a customer from me.

Give Tina a call and give her your email and I will send you the contact i used. tell her I told you to call she can be very defensive -) great gate keeper.

teach them how to upsell as well.  I used to have a contact cleaning a salon and the owner would not only teach them all the treatments but each week she would have a meeting when she teach up-selling. she also would not use young people as she said how can they relate to her customers that had money and life experiences where so different.

Good luck

kcscleaning

  • Posts: 63
Re: How much would you pay a carpet cleaner
« Reply #9 on: January 24, 2017, 02:33:50 pm »
Thank you all for your advice