I'm in a similar situation. While I don't handle hardscape projects, I have two crews dedicated to regular lawn and garden maintenance, and one crew that focuses on softscape projects.
I use a performance-based pay system built around budgeted hours.
Whether it's a maintenance route or a project, I always quote jobs with an estimated time for completion.
For maintenance, properties can take anywhere from 30 minutes to 4 hours. I build out daily routes based on total budgeted hours. If a crew finishes their route ahead of schedule, they earn a bonus for the time saved.
The same system applies to projects. For example, if a job is budgeted for two days and the crew completes it in 1.5, they still get paid for the full two days.
It's not a perfect system and it depends heavily on accurate quoting to give the crews a fair shot at hitting their bonuses. But overall, it's been effective.
I have a custom field for 'Budgeted Hours' on all of my jobs and I use this table to see how efficient my guys are at each job.
Doesn't look like that photo is clear - here's what I track to help.
We are in a similar situation right now and this is a great incentive model! Thank you!
This is wonderful! I'm guessing that isn't a Jobber report 😞 Do you pull anything from Jobber? And maybe just add your own columns? (I'm not on my laptop right now, so I can't really look).
Thank you so much for this!
I may be back with more questions later 😁
This is a report on the Crew Insight Platform - it's in the Jobber App Marketplace.
I essentially just add a custom field on my quotes/jobs for budgeted hours so that it pulls all the relevant info from Jobber.
It pulls in employee timesheet data, custom fields, job price, etc.
