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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: kcscleaning on January 03, 2017, 04:50:15 pm

Title: How much would you pay a carpet cleaner
Post by: kcscleaning 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

Title: Re: How much would you pay a carpet cleaner
Post by: Paul Clapham 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

Title: Re: How much would you pay a carpet cleaner
Post by: gwrightson 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

Title: Re: How much would you pay a carpet cleaner
Post by: Steve Chapman on January 05, 2017, 06:23:42 pm

Sub it to someone self employed and take a percentage on every job........

Title: Re: How much would you pay a carpet cleaner
Post by: Lewis Newby 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

Title: Re: How much would you pay a carpet cleaner
Post by: DB on January 06, 2017, 08:52:49 am

Suggest you look on the HMRC website....there is information there that would help

Title: Re: How much would you pay a carpet cleaner
Post by: John Kelly 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.

Title: Re: How much would you pay a carpet cleaner
Post by: Shaun_Ashmore 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.

Title: Re: How much would you pay a carpet cleaner
Post by: Ian Harper 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

Title: Re: How much would you pay a carpet cleaner
Post by: kcscleaning on January 24, 2017, 02:33:50 pm

Thank you all for your advice