[xxmattyxx]

Yeh but thats down to my business skills and my hard work im not gonna pay somebody else for that. Its not about what im on its what an employee deserves for cleaning windows.

 

If business skills had anything to do with it then you'd be using motivational skills to improve their work-rate, after all the more they do the more you earn, but surely theyre not doing anyone any favours if all theyre worth is 50 a day.

[jdemarco]

Yeh but thats down to my business skills and my hard work im not gonna pay somebody else for that. Its not about what im on its what an employee deserves for cleaning windows.

 

If business skills had anything to do with it then you'd be using motivational skills to improve their work-rate, after all the more they do the more you earn, but surely theyre not doing anyone any favours if all theyre worth is 50 a day.

Yeh quite right mate but 50 pound is just a start rate. If they prove themselves the first couple of months and work hard then based on that i will pay them more and thats what ive told them. That in itself should be an incentive. I mean what has happened to employees mind set when i started working i worked damn hard without complaint and less than half the amount that i pay out. i must have been 1 in a million!

[windowwashers]

Yeh but thats down to my business skills and my hard work im not gonna pay somebody else for that. Its not about what im on its what an employee deserves for cleaning windows.

 

If business skills had anything to do with it then you'd be using motivational skills to improve their work-rate, after all the more they do the more you earn, but surely theyre not doing anyone any favours if all theyre worth is 50 a day.

50 a day is a fair start IMO, when they get faster and prove themselves the wages they earn are in there own hands, if they do a bad job then £50 is far to much, thats My opinion of this matter

[Moderator David@stives]

The average wage where i live is £12'000

I pay £6.50 an hour.

dave

[Wayne Thomas]

The average wage where i live is £12'000

I pay £6.50 an hour.

dave

Dave:

We should re-locate to say the South East where we can charge £2 a window, pay less for our water and take on some employees for £100 a day

[P®oPole™]

The thing many need to differentiate between here is 'lads' and 'men' or Thumberlers and Shiners.

Lads (16-19/20) anything from £40-£60

Men £60-£110/upwards

A trick that many miss is a well trained 'lad' will do the same and maybe more! However never let on how good they are, and never pay them a full days money for half a days work.

Pro

[Small but perfectley formed]

were do you get lads that earn you £200 aday here in south yorkshire that would be a weeks wage some figure quoted on here  : .lots of residential WC in this area do 60/40 split 60 to employee

[jdemarco]

were do you get lads that earn you £200 aday here in south yorkshire that would be a weeks wage some figure quoted on here  : .lots of residential WC in this area do 60/40 split 60 to employee

Well basically you have to set the example. so its not down to the lads its down to you. If your slow then they will be slow if your quality of work is bad then theres will be bad. From a worker i want a duplicate of me or as close as possible. and that is how i train them and that is how i get at least 200 pound of work per person.

[jdemarco]

were do you get lads that earn you £200 aday here in south yorkshire that would be a weeks wage some figure quoted on here  : .lots of residential WC in this area do 60/40 split 60 to employee

I also sometimes do a 60/40 split but its 60 for me and 40 for the employee. 60 to employee sounds a bit too generous!

[NWH]

Paying £50-60 a day will work for a while but mark my words it won`t last forever,if your looking for someone to work for you for 1-2 years and make a lot out of them in that time then it would work,but if you want a reliable worker that will give you respect then you`ll be out of luck.The time will come when they will realise what there earning you and if there not on a fair wage or % they`ll be off if out of spite of you,i`ve known of people that have jacked in there job and have had no work to go to just because they found out they were earning the guvnor a fourtune and paying them pittance,out of spite.

[xxmattyxx]

10 years ago we were doing £75.00 a day (a 5 hour day) working for someone else.

[Ian Rochester]

My office cleaners get £6.50/hour!!

My window cleaners are on a percentage and will earn on average around £18K - £20K each this year.

I expect them to be able to do a certain amount of work on an average day, with very few exceptions they achieve this and more.

I put new starters on £6.00/hour until they are up to speed (generally within a month) and then they start earning percentage

[NWH]

After a month,is that just after a month of working with you or from scratch,a month is nothing if he or she is having to learn from zilch.

[Russell Macdonald]

were do you get lads that earn you £200 aday here in south yorkshire that would be a weeks wage some figure quoted on here  : .lots of residential WC in this area do 60/40 split 60 to employee

I also sometimes do a 60/40 split but its 60 for me and 40 for the employee. 60 to employee sounds a bit too generous!

Obviously not very often as you think 15% & 85% is tooooooooooooo much.  :

[haggis]

I get 80% of what i clean as a subby for a guy that has no idea how to run a widow round, It's supposed to be a 4 weekly round and he's had rubbish window cleaners working for him in the past that have only made 40 quid a day now I'm making 100 quid a day. he has streets that are split in two 20 on one side and 18 on the other it used to take two men a whole day just to do one side now i can do all of it in one day. He's also leaving some houses for more than six weeks but sending me to other streets a week and a half early, guess who gets the grief, when  i mention it he says he'll talk to the customer but he never goes then its up to me to explain to the customer why we've been 6 weeks since the last clean. never mind poo happens he's making crap money and I aint. tee hee