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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: aztec on September 30, 2006, 07:06:09 pm
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Hello all,
I am now in a position to take on employees so i was wondering how much per hour a 21 year old would expect as a good wage.
We are in the south east and i know wages are a bit higher down here but i dont want to pay them too much.
They are both quite good window cleaners and i also dont want to lose them!
I was thinking around £6.00 per hour each?
What do you guys think?
p.s we start around 6am and finish around 4.30pm
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Have a look in your job center window. It will give you an idea.
Dont forget if you advertise you cant be ageist !!!
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... or sexist ;D
Sarah
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Hey
£6.00 seems a bit low to me.
Maybe if you run with that a target related bonus at the end of the week or month.
This should be quality performance as well as quantity.
That is allso a long day if over 5 days.
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I think you will have trouble keeping staff at £6 per hour.
As that these days is still pretty rubbish money.
I used to earn more than that 8 years ago window cleaning working for an employer.
I would say at least £7.50 an hour then you should keep reliable staff
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just had a look at the jobcentre sight and its averaging 6.00 per hour for window cleaners.
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I have picked up so much work from another national company they pay a low wage so the lads dont care.
Are you domestic or commercial.
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I spoke to a w/c this week who was working for a local company. He works 5 1/2 days a week for £290.00. He has been with them for 15yrs.
He only averages £6 an hour which I think is too cheap.
Give um £9 an hour.
Nel.
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i pay £10.00 an hour but he is well worth it
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Ten pound sounds better.
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£8 an hour and if they are really good then make it £10
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From today Minimum wage is £5.35. If you are paying by the hour £6.00 seems to be the average. I pay my guy on priced work he is averaging £14.00
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I am thinking about employing somebody soon as my round is growing so quickly now, I think that I will start off paying around the £7 per hour and then put it up after 3 months or so after I have an idea of what they are worth to me. I have had people work for me accassionally when I have got behind to help me catch up, and I paid them one third of the days takings, but I found that unless they are good that is too much!
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Hi all,
If you pay someone between 7.50 & 10.00 per hour. How much would you expect them to make you a day. Michael D
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I pay £7 p/hour I set a work target for the day and if the work is done in less time then I pay a full days wage. If the work falls right they can be on about £9.50 p/hr but we finnish around 2.30.
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Don't you find that they try to cut corners and the quality of their cleaning suffers with an incentive like that?
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i have had problems with employees before, how can you monitor thier work with out going round behind them seeing whats happening?
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How much would you pay a guy that is training from scratch?
I mean, litterally cannot clean a window!
I have someone with me now. and he an clean, but is very slow still. So at this stage what wage would people give him?(by the time i clean the front of the house, and the back, downstairs, and collect the money, he has cleaned just the ups at the back)
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I pay between £6.50 and £10 p/h and pay for the occaissional lunch , more than my share of rounds , and sometimes a little extra at the end of the week where deserved ! if they truely are good workers dont lose them for the sake of a few quid a week !