Employing staff, how much should you pay? How much do we pay? Breaking it down to real figures.

[@willcutler9092]

I am a business owner who has struggled with staff in the past, this was both interesting and helpful. thanks

[@Darren-Green]

Glad it was of help.

[@johnny0468]

There arent many window cleaners ‘legit’ who get paid when they dont work when the weathers bad or bank holidays, you sound like a fantastic boss , very fair and i like the incentives you have in place for your staff,im currently at the point now where i am too busy and need help so this video is greatly appreciated, i would like to spend more time to actively finding new work ‘ profiling ‘ ( thanks to you i now do this)new customers but find i am generally too tired after working all day which is holding my businesses growth Potential back so a good employee is definitely the way forward .... so a really interesting video!! Cheers darren

[@tinobyrne9016]

I Like the £10 bonus initiative, it's a good idea to keep them hungry, I'll be trying this...

[@gerardmcmanus]

I have my staff on a flexible baises. So they work 32 hours a week. Which can be on any day. This allows us to work around the weather. Which we get allot of in the West of Scotland. Unlike a zero hours contract, their hours are gauranteed. We pay holidays, pensions etc. If we can't get out all week. They still get paid. This is what was worked for me. Everything you have said seems more than fair and reasonable. As you say there are tons of big companies and plenty of "self employed" gigs that pay less.

[@Darren-Green]

Really like that working hours model. Good on you. Up your way soon. Oban for some big Skate fishing.

[@Michie1391]

sounds very fair to work for mate, if they dont like working for a tenner an hour they best go self employed and deal with the shit that comes with that too.

[@l.bcleaningservices]

Brilliant response mate. So very far giving the staff that. It's great money. Well done for looking for a 4th person soon to join your company You been running your own business for 10 years or window cleaning for 10 years

[@adrianmaycroft8406]

I am considering setting up , have watched loads of you rattling about window cleaning and am hooked tbh

[@matthewbristow972]

Mate. Your a cleaning business? Sounds to me like your giving your guys a great deal! Good work👍

[@MCFCtreble]

Great video mate you do things the way they should be done .Your videos are one off the reasons i started my own business

[@robbinnie3164]

Really great video, sounds very fair and reasonable. Thinking about taking on somone in the future, this video is a goldmine of information. Thanks 👍

[@Bk1gamer]

Idk why this video was recommended but I was shocked hearing you guys get 5 WEEKS off a year in the Uk that’s insane. America take notes lol.

[@Darren-Green]

yep and as an employer you are expected to pay full salary whilst they sit on a beach -- and when they decide they are off 'sick' for the day and when they want maternity and paternity leave. It is a very one way street in the UK as an employer.

[@fabc8190]

​@@Darren-Green check out how it is in France and Belgium, then you'll realized UK was not that bad

[@TheBASS2DARK187]

Wow. You definitely treat your lads very fair in my opinion 👌

[@DjH4yz]

Please make a video on how you employed your first employee and how you dealt with pensions etc

[@flutoki]

Watching this in 2024 with current minimum at £11.44 lmao times have changed so much

[@squeakycleandave1]

Good reply Darren very fair

[@EricThomasBland]

Great video keep up the great work

[@curt76]

Hey mate, love the videos they're handy to pick up different ways to do things. I'm operating in Australia have been working for myself for the past 8 years but window cleaning for 13. Most of what I do is "traditional" window cleaning washer and squeegee ladders etc once a year. Trying to get more into the bigger jobs with the WFP and make it as quick/ efficient as possible. My question is can you do a video on your pole hose setup the quick connects you use. I have 30m pole tube (8mm od/ 5mm id) running from the brush right through to my 8mm microbore hose (100m) I see that you leave a length in the pole and just plug into that, would be interested in more detail on that setup. Thanks heaps! Curt

[@Darren-Green]

Hey Curt. If you browse the library there is a vide I did on 'hoseless' setup

[@mazman8343]

Your a good man to your staff

[@AMindInOverdrive]

I've worked for less than minimum wage just to be off government unemployment. They are being paid to learn a trade. Sounds like a fair deal to me

[@AlmondyOG]

I like your style! Wish there are more people like yourself down here in the Uk. I Recently just left a window cleaner who I was working for. He would give us a list of around 10+ jobs to complete in a day (it was a team of 2 because we were trad rats) The deal was he'd take 25% cut out of whatever we earned that day, in which after we completed the list we'd get around £140+ from those jobs he gives us so we'd get £48.7 each and 10£ would be for fuel in which we earned that ourselves from the £140, we like to cap it at around £50 each though because sometimes we feel like the mountain just gets higher and higher as our cut would grow smaller where his would be a lot bigger because of his fat 25% capitalism. the boss doesn't do much, bugger all really.. and we know this because we would always do all his quotes and his car would always be covered in leafs 😂 he doesn't pay our tax/N.I. Or any bonus of getting him new customers like you! But all the bad besides he would ALWAYS pay every penny and on time. But After all, It was pain hence why I left to start a round of my own. Watching your video makes me realise that there is so much more than just cleaning windows! And one day I'll have a round of my own. Thankyou for all your advices I learned so much by watching you man.

[@Darren-Green]

Your 'boss' is instantly breaking the law if he doesn't pay your tax and NI - if you are going trad then it's so cheap and quick to set up on your own - my advice is just go for it - with your current working conditions sounds like nothing to lose.

[@grahambruce3884]

Great video Darren

[@typerightseesight]

i make 30% at fish furniture no matter your resume or background. doesnt quite seem fair cuz i feel like with all my cleaning training as a detailer house cleaner friggin 4 years dishwasher experience.. i shoulda been started at like 36%...

[@Darren-Green]

Sorry Nelson, I have honestly no clue what you are talking about -- we are talking UK window cleaners here not domestic cleaning

[@gaborcsapo9090]

I think you pay very generous. Lots of windy does not earn that much a year as a self employed.

[@mjdedge3440]

Great info!

[@Robert-ij9ih]

Employees have 5 weeks paid vacation around here,,, as an employer I might take 2 weeks a year maximum... and some days here and there.... Pros and cons to everything 😐

[@vision50501]

Sounds very reasonable Darren.

[@stedylan8820]

Great video mate 😄

[@rowanlewisuk]

Its funny you mention stevo i have a car channel and am building an evo called project stevo lol

[@williesibbald1088]

Well said mate ,

[@YorkshireDrivewayCleaning]

Wise words Darren.

[@Darren-Green]

Thank you mate.

[@kylelowe7394]

Best job I ever had only if you were close

[@OAPMrTickle]

You send them home when it's pissing it down? Can I work for you :D I have to go out all weathers, no sick pay, no holidays. I have to pay my own tax all out of £105 a day. If we work quicker so we can go home then we find the next month with extra work! Lol I've just bought myself a van and getting all my gear together. Soon I'll be able to build up my own work and get out.

[@samuelsnell9474]

So many people on the dole and disability cleaning windows .and grass them up nothing happens holding down the prices

[@thecouncellor3540]

I think you pay good wages why because i pay the same and after i pay my all my costs i get the pay my bills eat and take the misses out couple of times week and holidays couple times a year i think that's fair.

[@duncanemery6264]

25 grand a year jeez where do i sign

[@Darren-Green]

Got to pass probation first... lol :))

[@ebenezerodubanjo]

Hi again, I’ve just started my business and I don’t know if I need to actually be insured when all my business owns are cleaning equipment such as window piles, squeegees and cloths and all I’m doing are my neighbours houses. This is the same thing with taxes, my business (sole trading as a brand name) doesn’t earn that much money yet. What would you say I do or could read on these topics? I do look forward to the day where I can actually afford to have staff and pay my staff more than £10 an hour 😂

[@Darren-Green]

Just posted a video about vans

[@ivanfinlay7758]

Well done buddy when you start up in county down give me a call that sounds good to me

[@Darren-Green]

I don't employ anymore, just franchise, besides, your references didn't come back in your favour! 😉🤣

[@jonnyretro5873]

Cheers mate

[@aarongrant4648]

8 years experience traditional and pole, got any jobs going? No joke.

[@Darren-Green]

Sorry mate, moved over to franchise the company so dont employ any more.

[@kelwhite9217]

Mate if I was closer I'd join ya firm no problem I've just started out on my own in Leicester and its a ball ache dealing dealing with everything from top to toe on your own .. you know your stuff Darren keep up the good upload content I find it very handy.. and ignore twaty comments from keyboard warriors 🎹🙄

[@Darren-Green]

We're just a jaunt up the motorway mate so if we can be any help just shout.

[@kelwhite9217]

Cheers Darren much appreciated I'm currently struggling to drum up good quality customers in my area and just getting odds sods all over the place.. I've only been going 4 to 5 months now but I feel like im not getting the customers I would like I watched your lead generation upload and this definitely seems like something I need to explore .. I spent with yell.com but its not having the effect I would like at 160.00 a month it's definitely not worth it I made the mistake of letting them build my website this drove the price up massively I did not realise until the "accidentally" charge me twice 🤨 so my first bill was 600 something.. I nearly passed out .. I thought spending on advertising would the way forward instead of doing the hard yards canvassing and did not bother with leaflet drops .. I am going to get some printed and target the properties of my choice next .. if I was just a bit closer I would of bit your hand off at joining up but Im in the south of Leicester so might be just a smidge to far .. 😓 yell.com also sign you up for a year contract so no getting out once your locked in for all the newbies that may be reading don't get stung like I did

[@Darren-Green]

@@kelwhite9217 forget leaflets mate. Call me. Numbers on web site. greenproclean.co.uk

[@dacelticcross]

Here's the way i look at it,if you don't like it, go start up yourself and call your own shots...Simples!

[@Darren-Green]

That's it in a nutshell. 👍🏻

[@alfa156man]

7 days a week,monday to friday🤔

[@Darren-Green]

Yes mate, that's cause we fit 7 days work into jsut 5 with how efficient we are! 😉😉🤣

[@09eastboi]

10 pound a hour is decent money for window cleaning. Do you offer overtime to darren.

[@Darren-Green]

No overtime. They're on salary so they're paid full days. The occasional extra hour here or there once in a blue moon is well compensated for by the many days knocking off an hour or two early on job and knock.

[@chrisfarri8914]

Hi Darren. Just wondered. One of the reasons I haven’t taken the leap to hiring employees is this, if my very hard worker who does Mrs smiths house for £20 working for me. Isn’t the worker sometimes likely to think hold on I’m getting xyz an hour I’ll do mrs smiths windows for £17. She gets a cheaper deal and I get more money. Just a worry I have of eventually losing a round. Hope that makes sense. Any way to combat this or any personal experience?

[@Darren-Green]

If I thought like that I would never grow. Tescos never hired worrying that one day the staff would start a supermarket I wouldn't think. Take the plunge. If an employee seems dodgy.. let them go.

[@chrisfarri8914]

Green Pro Clean Ltd much easier to grab a few customers for windows than start a supermarket though! Look forward to more videos. Including the new van setup!

[@juliereid3396]

The way to stop employees taking on jobs for themselves is to have a clause in the contract that they can not carry out work privately with current or possible clients within a certain mileage for at least 1 year from leaving employment, if they do there is a fee of say £500 plus costs etc incurred. Our customers t & cs also state that clients cant take our staff and if they do thereis the same fine. Hope thats helpful . Thanks

[@chrisfarri8914]

julie reid good idea!

[@Darren-Green]

julie reid problem is you would find that almost impossible to implement. Customers only leave if they are unhappy with a service, as long as a customer is happy they stay loyal. Same with an employee, as long as they are happy, they will stay loyal. An employee going after your clients by offering a discount of a few qid here and there is not going to get far as what self respecting client will leave a service to go with someone so underhanded they are trying to steal their old companies work?

[@samuelsnell9474]

Clean windows in great Yarmouth worse pay in UK Scotland and wales and ni

[@edx359]

If Carlsberg made video responses... 👏🏻

[@stevehughes6533]

Sounds ok, but Darren you keep mentioning me in your posts, in one there was Steve on someones patch and now Stevo takes cash in hand.

[@Darren-Green]

Well if you started handling your business properly Steve........ 🤣😂🤣😂 J.K.

[@r.wilkinsonwindowcleaning5306]

Sign me up mate I'm coming to work for you 😁

[@matthewwright7831]

I think you can sleep with a clear conscience lol

[@1971dave]

I love window cleaners talk about money, if the customer only new the truth they wouldn't get paid,

[@Darren-Green]

Of course we would. We do a job we get paid. Customers know there's a charge. Simple as that.

[@marklaunchbury9148]

CANyou give me a job?????

[@Darren-Green]

Nope. Sorry.

[@allbritepvc4948]

ill have a job 🤣🤣

[@leeh3568]

IF everything u say is true then I'd say giz a job.

[@Darren-Green]

Not if that's you application Lee 🤣🤣😉

[@bobbywalker6307]

Can I have a job lol🤣

[@tommygeoghegan6081]

Can I have a job please loll

[@Darren-Green]

Nope sorry, we no longer employ, we are franchise only now.

[@spencerj1413]

How many starf are you then.?

[@Darren-Green]

Currently 3 Spencer, looking for a 4th before Christmas.

[@bigdave8091]

@@Darren-Green wish I was closer I'd jump to the chance of working for you 😉