Employees?

[glassdude]

Are there any repair only business's here that have any employee's?
If so, how do you pay them? A percentage of each repair, hourly, salary?
Just courious.
-Jeff

[repare-brise]

Most of my franchisee's have 1 or more employee's, and they pay them in different ways. The one I prefer is a a straight 50% commission plus a milage allowance. The employee is resposable for his/her car, customer service, and income taxes ect, and the franchisee is resposable fro providing the work, equipment, consumables, cell phone, and invoicing. A good tech will earn a gross income of $200 per day.

Another is an hourly wage, this works well if the employee is in a fixed location(large commercial garage, airport rental company ect), these employee's generaly do 10-12 repairs a day work 7 hours and get payed $25 per hour.

I have a franchisee that has an employee that does nothing but polishing out graffitti(acid and traditional scratch) from comercial buildings. This employee works 7-8 hours a day, and is payed $30 per billed hour(6-7 a day). in this particular case the employee is dispatched daily (every morning he gets a call that starts, Paul, this is your mission should you choose to accept it......) and is not wanting for work.

There are many ways to deal with employee,s, but I prefer commision, this keeps them involved and motivated to succeed, and reduces the risks for you.

Merci

[scratchy]

I had one for 4 months. Worst decision I have made in WSR... After 6 weeks of PAID training his motivation went right down the toilet. I am going to keep it a family business from here on out.

[scratchy]

To answer the question properly. I worked out a deal. I am going to pay you X amount per week. For that I am going to send you X amount of jobs. He proceeded to take X amount per week and moan and complain about why he can't go and do EVERY job.
I should have been cold and heartless and put him on straight commission. He would have lasted less than 5 minutes and saved me the money that I could really use right now!

[repare-brise]

Cold and heartless, I think it's more like, fair and motivating, but yes the way you got stiffed is far from interesting froma bussiness perspective.

[Windshield Guy]

YES! Cold and heartless is the way to go w/ some people ... they only rip you off in the end or just want some (paid) training to start their own business or rip you off when your back is turned and dont tell you the full pic of how many wsr they did! (Cash repairs)

To answer the question properly. I worked out a deal. I am going to pay you X amount per week. For that I am going to send you X amount of jobs. He proceeded to take X amount per week and moan and complain about why he can't go and do EVERY job.
I should have been cold and heartless and put him on straight commission. He would have lasted less than 5 minutes and saved me the money that I could really use right now!

[Windshield Guy]

Seriously, I could slap ppl like that! Pissing me off just to read it.