Tammy and Mike,

In the South Florida market you can easily hire starting tech at $12 to $13 per hour. As with any staff you have there needs to be a way for them to grow and earn more money.

Keep in mind it is not always about the pay, what type of benefits are you willing to offer? Once an staff person is hired you need to set them up on a 60 to 90 day probation period for you to evaluate their performance. After the probation period there need to be an increase in their hourly rate.

If you offer any benefits it would be after the probation period. What can you offer? Vacation pay , holiday pay, sick pay and health benefits in some cases you can even offer a retirement program after the staff person has been with you for over a year or two service.

Keep in mind the long term employee has benefits to you, a long term employee keep your business running smooth and needs to develop into a staff person that can run jobs by themselves giving you the opportunity to spend more time selling your services.

What most of us that employ staff is we forget what it cost to train staff? The money you spend on benefits will help you keep staff for a much longer time. The longer the time the staff person stay with you the easier your job will become as you assign the staff person additional responsibilities.

I started my company in 2009 ,my main tech has been with me for over 19 years and my other tech have been with me for 2 year and I just hired another tech last week.

Why has my 19 year tech always follow me? I gave him opportunities and a growth plan which included benefits.

Several years ago I have an outside company determine what it cost to train a tech. I did not realize the cost was so high. It cost between $6000 to 8000 to train up a tech that can actually run jobs by themselves, and in our business that what you want. You don’t need a slurry sucker you need a tech that can run jobs.

Without a good tech you will find that you will never get off the truck and you will be doing the work all the time.

Work smart not hard invest in your tech and make your life easier.

Hope this help you determine what you need to pay. Keep in mind all markets are different based upon the cost of living example Boston verse Florida

John E Freitag

Director

The Stone & Tile School

Office 407-567-7652

Cell 407-615-0134

jfreitag@thestoneandtileschool.com

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www.thestoneandtileschool.com

From: Michael and Tammy [mailto:daci6537@comcast.net]
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 8:34 AM
To: Stone and Tile PROS Technical Support
Subject: RE: [sccpartners] Technician hourly rate

Thanks Paul

From: PBunis@aol.com

Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 8:06 PM

To: Stone and Tile PROS Technical Support

Subject: RE: [sccpartners] Technician hourly rate

I start rookies at $12/hr during a 30 trial period. If they make it through the 30 days, I raise them to $14/hr and schedule them to go to school. When they get back from school and prove that they can work efficiently and effectively on their own, I raise them to $18per hour. I am located in Boston. John can give you realistic pay examples for your area.

Paul

In a message dated 9/27/2012 7:06:26 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, daci6537@comcast.net writes:

Hi Could anyone tell me what is a good starting out hourly rate for a technician in Florida?

Thanks Tammy
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