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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: TomCrowther on December 08, 2013, 07:29:37 pm

Title: fair wage for employee
Post by: TomCrowther on December 08, 2013, 07:29:37 pm
I have one employee, reasonably happy with him and just wanted to check what small companies like me are paying their staff.
I want to keep him so am not interested in the minimum wage.
I have been paying sixty pounds per day plus 5.6 weeks holiday per year. We work from 8.30 til 4ish.
Cheers guys.
Title: Re: fair wage for employee
Post by: kempy on December 08, 2013, 07:52:02 pm
Spot on
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Post by: Frankybadboy on December 08, 2013, 07:55:31 pm
£55 aday with bonus if he hits daily targets and get new customers work 8.30 to 4.30
Title: Re: fair wage for employee
Post by: simon w on December 08, 2013, 08:27:20 pm


Similar working hours than yourself but more often a job in knock and finished earlier than this £80.00 per day.
Title: Re: fair wage for employee
Post by: simon w on December 08, 2013, 08:49:20 pm

If you value his efforts as an employee makes you a decent profit then pay him accordingly, it's a relative question as one small business may gross 100k per year where another does 50k

How fair his salary is depends on how much effort and profit he brings to your business
Title: Re: fair wage for employee
Post by: PurefectWindowCleaning on December 08, 2013, 08:54:04 pm
I pay £7 per hour...

We have just returned from an Indian, which I paid for and do little treats like that every so often
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Post by: robertphil on December 08, 2013, 08:54:17 pm
what age is he
Title: Re: fair wage for employee
Post by: TomCrowther on December 08, 2013, 09:04:05 pm
Cheers guys, he is 25 nearly 26.
Title: Re: fair wage for employee
Post by: easy clean on December 08, 2013, 09:48:19 pm
I pay my guys 40% of what they turnover, so they earn on average £100 a day. This way if its a slight drizzle they work instead of just sitting in the van. Also any complaints get done in their time.
Title: Re: fair wage for employee
Post by: PurefectWindowCleaning on December 08, 2013, 09:51:02 pm
I pay my guys 40% of what they turnover, so they earn on average £100 a day. This way if its a slight drizzle they work instead of just sitting in the van. Also any complaints get done in their time.


Do you let them quote jobs then? What if they quoted 100 for a gutter clean thinking I can get £40 out of it, and end up not getting the job cos its only a 1 foot gutter  ;D

see what i mean?
Title: Re: fair wage for employee
Post by: easy clean on December 08, 2013, 09:53:26 pm
They know how to price jobs (windows) cos they're doing them day in day out anything they're not sure on I go and quote and 9 times out of 10 I will quote it higher than them anyway.  ;)
Title: Re: fair wage for employee
Post by: TomCrowther on December 08, 2013, 10:13:33 pm
He works alongside me, two man set up. He doesn't quote jobs but is pretty good with the customers and tries to do a good job. By the sounds of it, I am paying him about right which is good. For him and me.
Title: Re: fair wage for employee
Post by: PoleKing on December 08, 2013, 10:24:51 pm
He works alongside me, two man set up. He doesn't quote jobs but is pretty good with the customers and tries to do a good job. By the sounds of it, I am paying him about right which is good. For him and me.

Buy him a pub lunch on a Friday.
Title: Re: fair wage for employee
Post by: robertphil on December 08, 2013, 11:41:27 pm
i pay 7 pound per hour ,my lot are all 18 or under .   id likely pay 7.50 if  they were 25 .  definitely that if he was a ladderman
Title: Re: fair wage for employee
Post by: ant stacey on December 11, 2013, 11:20:41 pm
wow i got ripped off i started working for a bloke in midlands who paid me £30-£35 a day.. at the time i was desperate for cash so did it did a week and never again he messages me now asking if i want anywork... ermm not for them wages no
Title: Re: fair wage for employee
Post by: Mist A Bit on December 12, 2013, 07:58:21 am
I got a new starter which is on 7 per hour working along side me' to be fair I give him quite easy days while he's learning, got another guy full time on a continuous contract job and he's on more than 100 a day plus bonus due to the style and hours of that job.
Title: Re: fair wage for employee
Post by: upthereds on December 12, 2013, 01:26:53 pm
i get £8 an hour and that's for wfp and some ladder work but the boss isn't out with me so I do all pricing including windows, gutters connie roofs e.t.c I also do collecting on a night, I bring in about £300 a day hence why i'm going solo in the new year. or and no paid holidays either
Title: Re: fair wage for employee
Post by: Richard iSparkle on December 12, 2013, 02:00:18 pm
i get £8 an hour and that's for wfp and some ladder work but the boss isn't out with me so I do all pricing including windows, gutters connie roofs e.t.c I also do collecting on a night, I bring in about £300 a day hence why i'm going solo in the new year. or and no paid holidays either

you wont get paid holidays either if you go it alone!
Title: Re: fair wage for employee
Post by: Inspire Cleaning on December 12, 2013, 02:24:44 pm
We pay £8.50 for window cleaners. They do trad & wfp plus pressure washing etc.
Title: Re: fair wage for employee
Post by: PoleKing on December 12, 2013, 03:44:55 pm
wow i got ripped off i started working for a bloke in midlands who paid me £30-£35 a day.. at the time i was desperate for cash so did it did a week and never again he messages me now asking if i want anywork... ermm not for them wages no

Not really.
You needed the money-your boss needed a worker.
It's a business relationship you decided to enter into.
You'd've been ripped off if he didn't pay you what you'd agreed initially.