If I put up my £15 jobs I got fifteen years ago by £3 every year they would all be £60 now.
Somehow I don’t think I’d have many left.
I’d be earning about £180 an hour.
Exactly there is some BS and exaggeration in regards to price rises on here..there is no way most customers would except a price rise year on year.a year goes by so fast....same with the BS saying "well you must be taking a pay cut year after year if you don't put them up every year!"
Read the posts again and correctly, I said due to the current financial situation it will be necessary to increase prices again this year after having increased them last year , normally we have a price rise every other year or so , but inflation has risen that much over the year and in most areas continues to rise so a further price rise is needed you are paying more for most things now than last year month on month so we need to keep pace with inflation with our price rises or we are in effect taking a pay cut , this is Evan more important when employing , it’s not rocket science , if you don’t increase your prices for two years at the current rate of inflation you will need to do a much higher rise when you do .
Going by one of your earlier posts are you really raising prices by an average of around 25% two years in a row and using inflation which is just north of 10% as an excuse? I take it none of your customers are any good at maths?
Its madness, you only have to switch on the tv and we're bombarded with news about the NHS. That's the NHS , probably the most highly respected workforce in this country who were hailed as hero's over the pandemic, who had people out on the streets clapping them, who quite literally save lives, and who have just been offered a 2.1% payrise for 2023 whilst inflation is north of 10%, yet a low skilled window cleaner thinks he can justify hitting his customers with two £3 rises on a £15 property two years running! If you put those prices up at the same time of year ie say the start of the tax year 5th of April then the reality is, that customers price has gone up from £15 to £21 in the space of 1 year and 1 day! The vast majority of wages in this country wont be going up 10%, yet they'll be expected to swallow a 40% jump in price on their window cleaning bill in just over a year! Good luck with that, any workman who upped his prices like that for a "service" for me without actually supplying a product would get told to sling his hook.
Exactly...Splash and dash is the worst for bragging about how he has no competition and 4500 customers blah blah blah and all his customers except the prices rises no problem and ask him when he will put them up again(they can't wait!)
Don’t think I said it was two £3 price rises one was £3 last year and this year it will probably a £2 increase on our cheapest jobs . Higher priced jobs will be considerably more .
Quote "£15 job will be going up to £18-20 ."
So a bit of simple maths £3 last year £2 this year total £5 so a total of £5 increase in two years so a £15 job will be £20 or with a bit of discretion £18
Your words..
"3 years and only a £1-2 increase ?..
that’s way to little we put ours up last year by a minimum of £3 and they will be going up again this year by a similar amount dearer the job the more the increase, you will in effect be taking a huge pay cut ."
"£15 job will be going up to £18-20 ."
So by a process of simple maths... This years £15 job was £12 last year because you put everything up £3, and this year its going up by another £3 to £5 , So £12 to either £18 or £20 in the space of just over a year... so at best an increase of 50% at worse an increase of 66,6 %... Your figures Splash