I pay myself an hourly wage for every hour ive worked on jobs. Me and my lady both have timesheets and I pay myself $20.00 an hour and her $10.50 an hour.
I take care of the phone calls, customer service, product ordering, equipment upkeep and repair, marketing, taxes, deposits, business goals, account management, customer retention, etc.
She takes care of the books and helps on the jobs. Sometimes she is there with me when I bid and gives input because my time goals and time it takes for tasks are sometimes unrealistic. That and its nice to have a second set of eyes and guts. But sometimes she thinks one thing is impossible and I get to prove her wrong.
And I also run scheduling by her because shes in charge of the home schedule and she cooks all the food. lol
Plus folks like the husband and wife team thing.
Right now we do all the paperwork but the more accounts we get and the more complicated life is getting I see now that there is value in paying somebody else to do accounting and free up time to spend with family and take care of yourself.
Always working 17 hours a day is not a sustainable way to do long term business, but sometimes ya gotta do it to make ends meet. Ya know?
But here we are having our min wage go from $9.45 to eventually $13/15 an hour. So our prices will go up, and so will our pay .
