[Sunshine/Cleaning]

I've just worked out based on last years figures that for each job I did the cost of servicing it was £2.96. per job.

I used my expences (not inc subbies or wages) divided by the no. of jobs done in the year.

More than I thought per job!

[darren clarke]

i worked it out if i employ someone in a van working 8 hours day doing 20 jobs aday (i know it is low)  all in inc wages fuel insurance etc cost £3.22 per house

[Sunshine/Cleaning]

WOW £64.40 per day wages and running a van and other expences.

Thats keen!

[darren clarke]

i know it is low, but i was bored one night and worked it out done it on the miminum of everything  ie wages, jobs done, hours worked

[Sunshine/Cleaning]

Ahh. So it's theorerical rather than factual. 

[elite mike]

 

[Sunshine/Cleaning]

Careful Sunshine, you will start to see the purpose of having a minimum price.

I do Ewan, see my website.

[darren clarke]

Ahh. So it's theorerical rather than factual.

yea,  wanted to know what i need work wise to employ someone

[gto]

£64.40 is still more than an average days wage for most people

[Jack Wallace]

This is an interesting idea, I would be curious to find out the cost to service each of my jobs but how do I find out how many jobs I did over a period of time?
Will George give me the information I need? I have looked but cant see how.

[darren clarke]

just add up ur fuel, wages, materials cost per month, and divide it by how many jobs u got,  should give you a rough idea,

[outdoor restore]

This is an interesting idea, I would be curious to find out the cost to service each of my jobs but how do I find out how many jobs I did over a period of time?
Will George give me the information I need? I have looked but cant see how.

Reports-Income forecast-select period, George then details £income and no of jobs per day/week/month

[Jack Wallace]

                I REALLY wish I had not done that.  I cant believe what its cost me per job over the last 6 months. 

I think some serious thinking is in order.

[darren clarke]

y whats up jack

what did it cost you

[Jack Wallace]

I dont like to discuss numbers on here darren so wont say how much but it did shock me. I am sure i can trim it down a bit with some work, so that is the target for the next few months.

 

[gewindows]

£64.40 is still more than an average days wage for most people

How did you work that out Einstein?

The office of national statistics shows that your thinking isn't as accurate as you'd like to think it is, apparently those in the know reckon its £98.00 a day.

The results of the 2009 ASHE show that median weekly pay for full-time employees in the UK grew by 2.0 per cent in the year to April 2009 to reach £489. Median earnings of full-time male employees were £531 per week in April 2009; for women the median was £426.

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=285

[Sunshine/Cleaning]

I guess it depends on whether you see average as mean, median or mode.

[gto]

most jobs pay the minimum wage now so £5.83ph, so that £46.64 per day earnings.
for a full days hard work for an agency around here, as there is no proper full time jobs.

[Ian Lancaster]

Working out a price per job isn't really relevant.  Because job prices vary, the cost per job ought to vary too.  What you are really doing is comparing your turnover with your net profit.  At the end of the year, you know your total income and your total expenses, you work out the percentage of expenses to total and that is the percentage each job costs you.  i.e. job value £100, profit as a percentage of turnover 75%, job cost £25.  Job value £10, same percentage, job cost £2.50

[Sunshine/Cleaning]

Working out a price per job isn't really relevant.  Because job prices vary, the cost per job ought to vary too.  What you are really doing is comparing your turnover with your net profit.  At the end of the year, you know your total income and your total expenses, you work out the percentage of expenses to total and that is the percentage each job costs you.  i.e. job value £100, profit as a percentage of turnover 75%, job cost £25.  Job value £10, same percentage, job cost £2.50

True Ian that is another way of working it out, this is ammo for the small jobs though.