{"id":939,"date":"2015-06-20T20:31:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T00:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cleanlyrun.com\/wpDrakeBlog\/?p=939"},"modified":"2025-03-18T04:29:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T08:29:23","slug":"janitorial-fair-wages-top-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cleanlyrun.com\/wpDrakeBlog\/janitorial-fair-wages-top-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Janitorial Fair Wages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ask Drake<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Grand Master Janitor, 30+ years<\/em><\/p>\n

With the truly, humbling success of CleanlyRun<\/strong><\/em> (formerly CleanGuidePro), we’ve received a lot of questions (from companies all over the world) about a variety of topics in the janitorial industry. Today I’d like to share one about Janitorial Fair Wages.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Question:<\/strong> I’m new in the business and have been doing all the work myself, along with my wife helping. I want to go after larger accounts that will require me to start hiring employees.<\/p>\n

I feel that if I pay my cleaners $20-$25 an hour, they will all do a great job, thereby eliminating complaints. Also, I’ll let my potential customers know this and be able to charge more. What do you think?<\/p>\n


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Answer:<\/strong>\u00a0Sounds good in theory. \u00a0Pay them more, they’ll perform better and my customers will gladly pay me more!<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, after three decades in business, hiring 1,500+ employees, experimenting with wages and interacting with hundreds of customers, this approach simply does not work in practice. Your question has two parts. let’s take a closer look…<\/p>\n