[aztec]

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

[Sunshine Cleaning]

Have a look in your job center window. It will give you an idea.

Dont forget if you advertise you cant be ageist !!!

[Sarah Sarill]

... or sexist 

Sarah

[reah]

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.

[pjulk]

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

[mick40]

just had a look at the jobcentre sight and its averaging 6.00 per hour for window cleaners.

[reah]

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.

[neil100]

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.

[sussex187]

i pay £10.00 an hour but he is well worth it

[reah]

Ten pound sounds better.

[s.hughes]

£8 an hour and if they are really good then make it £10

[gerrystyles]

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

[groundhog]

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!

[Michael D]

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

[thewindowcleaner1]

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.

[groundhog]

Don't you find that they try to cut corners and the quality of their cleaning suffers with an incentive like that?

[steveaqua]

i have had problems with employees before, how can you monitor thier work with out going round behind them seeing whats happening?

[Richy L]

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)

[LSB]

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 !