Your best technician shouldn’t have a salary cap. Give them a path: clear KPIs, real incentives, and no ceiling on what they can earn. Producers stay where production pays.
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I get this question a lot. How much should I pay my best technician? To me, they should earn as much as they can earn. And so the way that we accomplish this is we have what we call paths to progression. Pads to progression dictate certain KPIs that if hit, you can get a race. If certain KPIs are hit, you're ultimately on your incentive structure are going to make more money. We never want to cap an individual with how much they can make when they are out there producing for the company. So again, there's a number of different pay structures that you can use bonus plans and incentive plans. To me, what I want to make sure is that one, it's not capped and two, it's a win for the customer, it's a win for the technician, and it's a win for the company.
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