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Originally Posted by Jeff Alton
The shop ownership has no business putting techs on flat rate if they can't provide a full schedule of work. That said, we are backed up over 100 hours all the time and we don't pay flat rate. We pay hourly with bonuses based on efficiency. I would not want my staff wondering what their paycheck would look like each pay period. Also, lets say you have 3 or 4 techs. How do you split the jobs evenly to ensure everyone has access to the jobs that are easier to beat book time on? Likely your best tech gets more of the difficult jobs which are harder to beat and gets financially penalized.
In our area with the costs of land, taxes, utilities, equipment etc, there is no way to pay a tech even close to 50% of the posted rate. Thinking that is possible is a joke.
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That's cute. You're actually making sense and stating the way it should be, but unfortunately, that is SUPER rare in most shops. As mentioned above, if techs are turning over 40 hours, then management will squeeze another tech in let them starve each other out when it gets slow. Doesn't cost them a penny to do that. All of the dealerships around here are now open late daily and on Sat and Sundays. So they hired more techs to work the weekend shifts with the option to work during the week if they want so they are double staffed most days and nobody can afford to take off days as they lose money. I could go on and on.. SO glad I got out of that industry...