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!

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;

hugehomepros · Answer

I struggle with this one. I think piece work would be much better for the employee and for the business but for our company it's really hard because we do so many different things. Even things that are somewhat similar are different (like a gate for one person isn't a gate for another). One thing we've done is a hybrid hourly model then use Protiv (which integrates with jobber) to give them a bonus for doing it faster with no all backs. That's still a work in progress though because they are still working out the kinks on their end.&nbsp;

fybbros1 · Answer

Trying to start my business&nbsp;

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;

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