[Chris Cottrell]

If you are going to employ someone to do w/cleaning and their good at it, been doing it for you a couple of years, know the job, know your customers, then what in your opinion is a good hourly rate to pay them ?

[martinsadie]

i paid £10 a hour to one chap who helped me,good lad as fast as me, you have to make it worthwhile or they will find something else,plus he had a 15 mile round trip as well

[d s windowcleaning]

if youve a good lad lookafter him .

[Smudger]

Well minimum wage is now £5.93
so if you are paying at this end of the scale i wouldn't think he will stick around long.

wages need to be good enough to attract and keep good staff but not so high you make nothing from
employing them - the balance is paying + benefits ie hols sick to stop the worker setting up on his own.

Darran

[Blue Frog Systems]

Depends on what he can earn a day really. If he works well, knows the round & custys, can be trusted on his own... he's worth keeping to be fair.

Say he earns you £150+ a day...

8 hour day I'd pay him £8-10 p/h

Maybe £8 with a 25% bonus for set targets to give him an incentive. The 25% bonus is worth an extra £80 a week (an extra weeks money each month).... well worth working well for.

If you pay well & reward with a bonus, then the chances of him going on his own are a lot less.

[gewindows]

I wouldnt dream of paying anything less than £10 an hour. I dont believe in trying to squeeze as much as you can out of someone and pay them a pittance whilst still reserving the right to expect them to honour you like an obedient dog.

If he cant earn you a significant amount of money including his pay then you aren't pricing right.

A close friend of mine is likely to be working with me imminently, he'll probably earn somewhere in the region of £15 an hour as a percentage of productivity.

[Chris Cottrell]

For those that voted £10 ph how many years service would you expect someone to have before you paid them this much?

[martinsadie]

For those that voted £10 ph how many years service would you expect someone to have before you paid them this much?

id expect him to be as good as me with no complaints off the customers,some people take longer than others to get good

[Gav Camm lammy 283]

For those that voted £10 ph how many years service would you expect someone to have before you paid them this much?

will e work wiv you etc ??
people think 10 ph is gr8 money but most wc work till 3 ish so its prob 70 a day
350wk most 2man gangs do this per day
not so gr8 for yr lad earning you for free the nxt 4days
if you get me 

[darren clarke]

so what would you pay for a complete newbie from scratch then?

[suds window service]

chris just worked out my lads pay at £12.5 per hour. this is a lot but there is an old saying.

if i did it again i would be tempted to pay pea nuts but i would end up with monkey,s?

[Gav Camm lammy 283]

so what would you pay for a complete newbie from scratch then?

ad propa newbies the get less than twenty a day
off me 

[Chris Cottrell]

will e work wiv you etc ??

Yes he does work with me, we have a sort of routine some houses he does all on his own if we have a few in a row & when we have houses on their own we each do certain bits like I'll do the back & he'll do the front