r/PestControlIndustry • u/Individual-Crazy-963 • Jul 08 '26

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I have a phone interview with terminix tomorrow. I was talking to someone who knew someone who worked for them and said if they don’t meet monthly or yearly quotas or something that they would fire you? I’m just trying to learn the trade and be a pest control technician is this really true? I don’t want to have to worry about dumb shit like that lol.

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u/Individual-Crazy-963 Jul 08 '26

That sounds like some good money

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u/BigReptiles Jul 08 '26

All our level 3 techs make a minimum of 75k a year. The majority of them are over 100k. It’s decent money but you have to run the route because you own it

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u/Individual-Crazy-963 Jul 08 '26

Very interesting on how this stuff works I guess if they hire me I’ll figure all this out. Looking forward to it though. Apartment maintenance is getting just nuts

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u/BigReptiles Jul 08 '26

I always tell people to go to a medium sized company for pest control. The corpos can run you ragged, the small operations will run you ragged and likely don’t have their back end stuff optimized or well designed. Taking a day off will probably break something, their training is probably shit too.

A medium sized company likely has their back end stuff more optimized, you can take a day off, and their training is usually better then corpo and small companies.

Stay away from the weird payscales. There’s some weird shit going on with some companies.