Hello people, just needed some feedback on benefits and pay to the employee’s and seeing if I’m stupid for thinking its a good idea.

Won’t exactly get too specific since I’m trying to not bring more competition into the ring. Only a few smaller companies in my state doing this and I’m trying to keep it that way, lol. As some of us may know, pressure washing videos are all over youtube, throwing around 1200 a day posts and making it seem easy, while forgetting to mention the backside of things.

Instead, we elected to do fleet cleaning, targeting vehicles owned by companies that have deeper pockets. Why? Simply profitable for less intensive work and locking in contracts makes sure you have at least 6 months to a year+ worth of income. We do offer more services, but again, competition may get more ideas if they’re browsing.

Here’s the employee side of things with that context. I have one guy that I’m basically training right now to know what to do, and I plan on making him a co-owner down the road. Our pay structure isn’t a flat rate hourly, or even a salary. Instead, it’s percentage of job based pay, like a sales job, that pays based on the jobs pay instead of getting paid just for showing up and doing terrible work. We’re offering health coverage, 401k matches, and much more that’s taken care of by Paychex. We locked in a great rate through our bank, and we pay everyone every Friday.

With the benefits alone (401k matches, health coverage, unlimited sick time within reason, parental leave, personal/mental health leave within reason, ability to do whatever in-between scheduled jobs as long as you make it there on time, gas coverage for long distance travel, the ability to not have anyone micromanaging you, a non-conventional work week that’s sub 20-30 hrs, and much more I’ll probably add on later), what’s the likelihood of pulling other companies employees to mine and retaining top talent in the field, since the base rate of employees here doing this is 20/hr.

I’m trying to change the job sphere in my state to actually make working enjoyable instead of hell every day so the employees could enjoy working for once in America.

Apologies if formatting is goofy, but I appreciate any constructive feedback or ideas to add to make employees lives easier.

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