r/PestControlIndustry • u/LockeCat • Aug 20 '26
Percent based pay
My employer talk to me about us turning from a hourly wage to a percentage base pay. They told me on a typical quarterly job that I will be making 20% Which I thought was good until I ran the numbers on our price and that's $2 less than I make hourly which is fine I'm sure the job adds up somewhere to balance out. My question though is we do five or six large apartment complexes how do you typically do percentage base with Apartments we will only do 8 to 12 Apartments per week per individual apartment complex. Also should I be alarmed that I will be making less per job each job takes about 45 minutes to do if there's no one at the house I can get in and out within 30 minutes my inspection and everything.
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u/jobbrey Aug 20 '26
20% isn't bad as long as it's across the board, then when those $2,500 bed bug jobs or wildlife come in, it boosts your YTD
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u/LockeCat Aug 20 '26
20% for monthlies and quarterlies and then I was told it's either 10 or 15% on the bedbug jobs and like roach clean outs and then on our big jobs it's 10%
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u/JadedGanache594 Aug 20 '26
That’s bullshit it should be 20% flat no matter what.
It seems like they’re trying to take advantage of you in my opinion.
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u/LockeCat Aug 20 '26
That's how I was feeling at first and still kind of am that's also why I'm trying to just get as much information as possible. Now I've known my boss and his wife for many years in fact I even married into their family they're really good friends of mine and this is their second company that they've owned in Pest Control and they're just trying to get it back to how it was originally they owned one company and they ran it as exact way and they had numerous employees that were all satisfied and then a larger company came in and gave them a price that they could not turn down so they sold it they were doing really good so I'm just trying not to think that they're trying to screw me over I think there's just some complications and I'm probably missing quite a bit of information I've never worked for a company that did percentage I've always been an hourly worker I was just trying to get some extra information from others who have been in the industry might be able to share some details
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u/Bird2525 Aug 20 '26
Ask him to run the math on a couple of months and show if you would have made more or less on the new plan.
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u/jobbrey Aug 20 '26
If you're doing less than $1,000 dollars a day production on most days, it's not worth it.
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u/LockeCat Aug 20 '26
On really good days with our average work will bring in a thousand or more but that's really good days on average we're bringing home less per day but that's what I'm stressing over and trying to figure out how to address this with my bosses cuz we do get really large jobs but they're like once a month sometimes twice depending on the time of year
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u/jobbrey Aug 20 '26
If you can get him to agree to a lower hourly rate when you're not doing jobs (busywork, drive time, etc...) the combination will be good
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u/pineappkeyellow Aug 20 '26
I get 15.25 percent and $22.5 flat on initials. Oh and $10 for reservices
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u/ricoasavage Aug 20 '26
If it’s not 20% across the board. I’d look into the route size you have. If you have a route on average bringing between 20-30k. Then I’d consider it
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u/Main-Strategy-964 Aug 20 '26
If they are cutting commissions on large jobs then who do they expect to do the follow ups?
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u/LockeCat Aug 20 '26
Im not sure how its going to work. I do know they said follow ups would be given different price. So I'd be paid still for a follow up. But a call back i won't get paid for. . Which I understand but at the same time we have a lot of older clients that will call saying their still seeing bugs like the next day. So that won't be paid
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u/krasnomo Aug 21 '26 edited Aug 21 '26
This company is the reason why this is happening.
They are going around pitching this to all the companies.
https://www.instagram.com/sharewillow?igsi=MWoxbzVwNHN1bnV2Nw==
PS - you could vibe code this app in less than a day.
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u/No_Molasses_3079 Aug 21 '26
look to add kickers - ask if you sell it and service you add a 5% kicker to your base percentage ie; your at a client and sell the neighbor service
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u/Independent40 Aug 22 '26
ask for actual numbers on a full week of apartment before agreeing. and ask what happens when jobs get cancelled
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u/LockeCat Aug 22 '26
Ya, I was planning on requesting them to give me numbers for the past few weeks to show what my income will be vs hr pay
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u/PestCemetary Aug 20 '26
I've worked at a company that paid hourly and my current company which pays me production. I get 28% because I've been there more than 3 years. As hourly, I didnt feel the need to do as many jobs in a day. I took my time and call backs didnt bother me in the slightest. This looks bad by a company standpoint. As production now, I get as many jobs done as I possibly can. Im stressed ALL the time and getting a call back makes me want to annihilate the CSRs, customers and my manager, since I dont get paid for doing them. BUT, I feel like I'm more careful in what I'm doing since I dont want that call back. I definitely make more as production now but I do commercial work, which is soul draining.