[joe.b]

i am going to be taking someone on for domestic cleaning, i will be paying them £6 p/h  and i will be charging roughly £10-£15 p/h, do you think this is good for the business to make say £5 p/h from each job the worker does?

thanks

[Bertie Boo]

what are your hourly costs, are you charging by the hour (if so why) or by the job

Cheers

Bertie

[joe.b]

yes by the job but one job at the moment is charged at £55, takes me about 4 hours, so when i take someone on would that work out ok for the employee being on £6 p/h

[wilclean]

hi

  based on £55 for 4hrs work and you paying £6 ph to the worker and you'll make £7.75 ph yourself - sounds alright. Where I come from I would of charged the client a little bit less and bumped the hourly rate to £7 for the worker.


                                                  kind regards Paul

[cml]

Dependant on where your're located this sounds fine to me.  Considering you have to account for all your overheads as well.  i.e materials, transport, etc...

[*Chris Browne]

Sounds about right to me.

Chris