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Title: What would you pay a 17 year old trainee?
Post by: supernova77 on March 04, 2015, 08:10:05 am
Hi All,

What would you initially pay a 17 year old trainee that has no window cleaning experience at all?

Andy  ;)
Title: Re: What would you pay a 17 year old trainee?
Post by: Marc Whitbread on March 04, 2015, 08:11:49 am
£150 a day they are the future so got to pay them well to make them want to do it!!  ;D
Title: Re: What would you pay a 17 year old trainee?
Post by: Tom White on March 04, 2015, 08:15:03 am
Weatherspoons pay £5.92 an hour for an 18 year old.
Title: Re: What would you pay a 17 year old trainee?
Post by: supernova77 on March 04, 2015, 08:25:46 am
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£150 a day they are the future so got to pay them well to make them want to do it!!  Grin

£150 a day? Is that all?   I was thinking 25% of turnover - So £250

 ;)
Title: Re: What would you pay a 17 year old trainee?
Post by: supernova77 on March 04, 2015, 08:26:35 am
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Weatherspoons pay £5.92 an hour for an 18 year old.

Our new local weatherspoons opened yesterday...

"useless fact of the day"

 ;)
Title: Re: What would you pay a 17 year old trainee?
Post by: Marc Whitbread on March 04, 2015, 08:30:05 am
better not pay less than them then or he'll go and work for the instead  ;)
Title: Re: What would you pay a 17 year old trainee?
Post by: Walter Mitty on March 04, 2015, 09:04:21 am
Well it's never likely to happen but I reckon I would aim for the *adult* minimum wage for starters (as opposed to the youth minimum wage).  It would be important to show how high the wages could go if he/she puts in the effort because that should keep someone interested rather than believing that they will always be on minimum wage.
Title: Re: What would you pay a 17 year old trainee?
Post by: G Griffin on March 04, 2015, 09:21:14 am
It depends on what she'd be prepared to wear.
Title: Re: What would you pay a 17 year old trainee?
Post by: DG Cleaning on March 04, 2015, 10:02:48 am
He's only going to be a trainee in the morning I'd be more concerned with what your going to pay him after dinner.
Title: Re: What would you pay a 17 year old trainee?
Post by: SeanK on March 04, 2015, 11:19:11 am
Pay him the minimum wage and up it as and when you see fit, age shouldn't matter in window
cleaning a trainee is a trainee and once they are up to speed they get the full wage.
Title: Re: What would you pay a 17 year old trainee?
Post by: SeanK on March 04, 2015, 11:24:25 am
He's only going to be a trainee in the morning I'd be more concerned with what your going to pay him after dinner.

Exactly you should be able to learn how to clean a window in a few hours, after that its just a matter
of getting faster while maintaining quality.
O.K. you will come across a few problem solving tricks of the job along the way but nothing too hard to learn.
Title: Re: What would you pay a 17 year old trainee?
Post by: Rich Wilts on March 04, 2015, 01:21:27 pm
£7.50 an hour to help instill in him a decent sense of self. Let him feel better than his mates who are on less than £6.00 an hour. Afterall the difference is only going to be a bit over a tenner a day so far as you are concerned. Adopt a manner of making him feel worthy and he might return the favour.

Pay peanuts ....
Title: Re: What would you pay a 17 year old trainee?
Post by: Smudger on March 04, 2015, 02:03:56 pm
I would pay him minimum wage for a period of 3 months, and then if you are happy will all aspects of cleaning, attendance, attitude etc, then review the wage at the end of 3 months.
Title: Re: What would you pay a 17 year old trainee?
Post by: escorttdi on March 04, 2015, 02:17:43 pm
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Weatherspoons pay £5.92 an hour for an 18 year old.

Our new local weatherspoons opened yesterday...

"useless fact of the day"

 ;)
another fact...... nobody has eaten quiche since 1988
Title: Re: What would you pay a 17 year old trainee?
Post by: Matt. on March 04, 2015, 02:23:15 pm
I would pay him minimum wage for a period of 3 months, and then if you are happy will all aspects of cleaning, attendance, attitude etc, then review the wage at the end of 3 months.

That's a good point but you can also put them on an apprentiship, this way you will receive £1500 after 6 months which would then be a good time to see we're he's at, he may lose interest after a few weeks
Title: Re: What would you pay a 17 year old trainee?
Post by: Spursboy1972 on March 04, 2015, 04:59:35 pm
Minimum wage. They automatically get an increase at 18. Incentivise it so put a bonus scheme in place for quality of work, reliability etc..
Title: Re: What would you pay a 17 year old trainee?
Post by: PoleKing on March 04, 2015, 06:05:17 pm
£7.50 an hour to help instill in him a decent sense of self. Let him feel better than his mates who are on less than £6.00 an hour. Afterall the difference is only going to be a bit over a tenner a day so far as you are concerned. Adopt a manner of making him feel worthy and he might return the favour.

Pay peanuts ....

+1
Pay a bit more than elsewhere (the pub) but not too much more.
I'd go for £60-£70 a day. (I Don't like hourly pay)
Title: Re: What would you pay a 17 year old trainee?
Post by: ptwt on March 06, 2015, 03:59:19 pm
I pay minumum wage plus commission based on amount of work done,  the lad who works for me gets about £70 a day. Hoewever if any complaints are recieved about his quality of work he will not receive commission for that day ( never happened).This seems to work well in keeping him working hard and to a good standard.