What’s your formula for paying crews per job?

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Hey everyone — looking for some input from other home service business owners.

I run a home service company doing window cleaning, gutter cleaning, house washing, Christmas lights, permanent lighting, and gutter guards. I’m looking into switching to some form of piecework or per-job pay for our crews and wanted to see how others structure it.

For those of you paying per job, how do you calculate it? Do you base it on a percentage of the job, expected labor time, or something else? And roughly where do you start your guys at as a baseline?

Any insight or examples would be really helpful. Thanks in advance!

alexandra_mmpcs · Answer

It depends on which way you're going with your business.&nbsp; 1 will your employees be w2 workers or 2 contract to gig. I have gig workers in which they are paid per job. Ex. Client repair- 350&nbsp; gig worker (not employee) - 75 - 150 and business around 200+. Then you factor in labor , distance etc&nbsp; so those numbers would go up. Now, w2 is much different as they would work directly for you, and would get a base pay, hourly etc , insurance , workers comp, etc .&nbsp; I hope this helps with your question.&nbsp;

judithvirag · Answer

I googled your name and it looks like you are in Canada, Ontario. We do have some subcontractors and then employees is most of our workforce.&nbsp; We pay by the hour but our subcontractors we first look at how long should the job take and we add all the extras like taxes, CPP and EI.&nbsp; Usually a $25 per hour employee is around $32-33 for a subcontractor.&nbsp; Then based on this hourly rate we figure out how much the job should be.&nbsp; &nbsp;

apexjunk · Answer

This is the exact rate I pay my workers, 33 an hour to start. I specialize in Junk Removal but have been transitioning to mobile home demolition&nbsp;

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What’s your formula for paying crews per job?

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