[rl]

I think after being a member of the forum for a few months now I have a good idea of what I can expect for an hourly rate. But whilst reading a lot of threads they always contain a lot of questions about peoples hourly rates and/or wages etc.

Please only take part if your giving a serious answer and if you don't agree with telling people your hourly rate then don't take part, but as it's a poll no one will know who you are.

Hope this will help newbie's see what people really earn and will be some where to point people when they ask the same question!

Just looking for a simple, XX amount of hours a week and I get XXX amount of pounds = £xx hourly rate, before any deductions etc

Cheers guys.

[Lee Pryor]

rl its a shame you havnt taken me up on my offer, you seem quite keen to learn.

[Craig 72]

In terms of hours actually worked it's probably about £20 but that doesn't include buggering about driving from job to job if the work's not compact.I also only have enough work for about 2 or 3 weeks out of every month.Jobs differ massively though.I've got a few customers who honestly take me 15-20 minutes and are happy to pay £20.Others seem expect me to work for half an hour for a fiver.

[john tomkins]

You don't really expect serious answers to your poll do you :

Hope this will help newbie's see what people really earn

Thousands round here as it is

[rl]

lol, I was hoping for serious answers! Thought because it was anonymous people would be more encouraged to be serious, I realise some don't want everyone seeing what window cleaners earn, but lets be honest it's everywhere on this forum.

Lee02, have sent email, sorry took a while!!!!

[Window Washers]

lol, I was hoping for serious answers! Thought because it was anonymous people would be more encouraged to be serious, I realise some don't want everyone seeing what window cleaners earn, but lets be honest it's everywhere on this forum.

Lee02, have sent email, sorry took a while!!!!

One thing I would say for the new people on here is, quite a lot of the information on here in regards to earning and marketing and many other things  is Wildly inaccurate

[rl]

that is the reason, i was hoping this poll would help, if people are on here for some months you start to see what it truth and what is fiction!

I think people on the whole are being serious with their replies. I put the under £6 and over £100 on so that the jokers could select them as their answer! Although of course their will be people i'm sure that will earn under £6 and over £100, i'm presuming most replies of those amounts are the nost so serious replies!

[sparklebright]

Mind your own. 

These sort of polls are very misleading, if you turnover £25 an hour that is nowhere near what will be left to pay you after all your costs.

As I've said before, if you worked for a company that paid you £10 an hour you actually cost them much much more to employ you. All those things your old boss used to cover, they are down to you now, everything from sick pay, to materials.

[Ian Lancaster]

As always with these silly polls, the question is too vague.

It should be something like:  What is your average hourly turnover if you divided your average days takings total by the number of hours you are away from home?

[windolene]

Hi,

I don't agree with the previous post. Surely the original post reads how much would you like to earn for a job that takes an hour to Clean?

Kevin WINDOLENE.

[rl]

What I meant by my question is this.

If you do 30 hours of work on average a week and take receive £600 from your customers for this work your hourly rate is £20. I know all expenses will have to be deducted from this and you have to pay tax and NI and god knows what else. Was just going for a simple busniess hourly rate to keep it simple to vote on.

[Lee Pryor]

RL check you email

[Window Washers]

What I meant by my question is this.

If you do 30 hours of work on average a week and take receive £600 from your customers for this work your hourly rate is £20. I know all expenses will have to be deducted from this and you have to pay tax and NI and god knows what else. Was just going for a simple busniess hourly rate to keep it simple to vote on.

only problem there is the bigger the comapny the lower in a lot of cases hourly rates are lower than a normal one man band window cleaner, so the post and poll is flawed before it starts, good for you for trying to help though  

IMO it just makes  for confusion for what is reality and fantasy

[Lee Pryor]

well said ian.

imo hourly rate for window cleaning is how long is a piece of string. i prefere to ask myself what i want to earn per hour

[Sean Dyer]

i would say personally for a one man band you wanna look at a minimum of £25 an hour you work/out of the house

then divide that into how much you wanna earn a week and theres what you need to do hour wise

if you can do more than 25 then you can work less

but if your new to window cleaning use that as a base for your average you will have better hours and days and worse but i find it averages roughly to around that figure when alone

Many with a good work ethic, good setup , the right skill and always bringing in better work wil do much more, but its a case of how easy a life you want