Mike AndesFounder, Augusta Lawn Care and Homeworks · Founder of Homeworks and Augusta Lawn Care

The Numbers Don't LIE... Hold Employees Accountable with THIS!

14 Jun 2025 · 0 min

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A short excerpt from a YouTube video by Mike Andes explaining a simple method to track labor efficiency: divide wages paid by daily revenue to get a labor ratio (example: $180 / $1,000 = 0.18 or 18%). He recommends keeping that ratio under 40% and tracking by crew to hold employees accountable using numerical measures.

Questions this video answers

Wages paid ÷ daily revenue (earnings for that day).

Under 40%.

$180 divided by $1,000 = 0.18 (18%).

How we're going to track labor efficiency is going to be wages paid divided by what we earned for that day. Okay, I earned a thousand dollars. Well, it's 180 divided by a thousand, that's 0.18. 18%. Good. We want that number under 40%. And what you can do because you have the two trucks, is track it by the crew. Well, I would guess is that you are, like, crazy efficient and your other crew is just falling behind a bit. It's tough to hold people accountable is when you're not tracking the numbers. The numbers don't lie.