Painting business owners need to handle five admin tasks when switching to performance-based pay: estimate using production rates, add budget hours to work orders, track time, define your bonus structure and quality rules, and set up payroll timing.
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Painter performance pay. Some of the administrative things that you'll need to definitely think about is, uh, you gotta get your estimating down with production rates so that you're generating the budget hours. You have to have a work order that has the budget hours on there so the crew lead knows the expectations. Your time tracking, you'll need to have that dialed in. You have to identify what is the structure of the bonus, and then are there any stipulations? Are you going to require a quality check? Does that quality check, if they fail the quality check, they still get the bonus? If there's a callback, you know, those stipulations, gotta think about those. And then the timing of when you're paying the bonuses, you're going to pay it quick for high impact, but then potentially pay someone and also get a callback, but mitigate it some other way. Or you're going to hold onto the bonuses and have maybe less of an impact, but not pay out bonuses when you shouldn't have. So you have to look at that, the timing of the bonuses. And then from there, it's the actual act of running the payroll for this. So just some of the administrative things that you'll need to definitely think about.
