Hourly pays for slow stops. Per pool pays for rushed ones.
Pay your techs for good work instead.Pay your techs for good work instead. When every stop is measured, the techs who do it right earn more, labor stays in check, and customers stay.
Start with your routes
For weekly service: $38.08 a visit, at 52 visits a year.
Which stop pays your tech the most?
- By the hour
The slowest stop
Every extra minute at the pool is paid.
- Per pool, nobody checking
The fastest stop
A rushed stop pays the same as a good one.
- Per stop with a quality bonus
The stop done right
Every stop is rated, and well-rated stops pay more.
What each one costs you
These are your estimates, not industry numbers. Move them until they match your routes.
Paying by the hour
A slow stop pays more than a focused one, so the day stretches.
$2,889 a month
paid for slow: about 101 hours across 4 techs, most of it at overtime.
Paying per pool, with nobody checking
A rushed stop pays the same as a good one. Callbacks and green pools follow, and customers leave.
$7,920 a month
of revenue walking out: each lost customer would have paid $165 a month for 24 months. That's 24 customers a year.
Pay for good work instead
Pay per stop at a rate that holds labor at your target, then pay more for well-rated stops. Techs who do it right earn more, you keep labor in check, and customers stay.
Labor today
$13.57 a stop
That's 36% of the $38.08 a stop brings in, and $16,467 a month across 4 techs, counting 5 hours of overtime a week at 1.5×.
Pay per stop on the plan
$12.50a stop
Keeps labor at 35% of revenue with the bonus below included. A tech running 70 stops a week makes $875 before the bonus.
Free, no account.
What each tier pays a week
- 95+$14.38$1,006
- 90+$13.75$963
The quality bonus multiplies per-stop pay, never hourly wages. A tech on hourly pay earns no bonus, so this plan starts when they move to per stop, or to hourly plus per stop.
The quality bonus
Every stop is rated out of 100. A tech's tier comes from their average stop rating over the last 30 days, and it multiplies their per-stop pay.
$13.13 a stop, 1 of 4 techs
$13.75 a stop, 1 of 4 techs
$14.38 a stop, 1 of 4 techs
The other 25% average below 80 and stay at ×1.00.
- What the bonus costs you
- $1,138 a month
- An average of 7.5% on per-stop pay
- Labor with the bonus
- 35% of revenue
- $16,304 a month, vs $16,467 today
What a good tech takes home
Average stop rating 97
Bonus
×1.15
$875 for 70 stops plus $131 quality bonus
$56 more a week than today, before tips, for doing the work right.
They earn more when they grow your business
A tech is at the pool every week. Pool Founder's app lets them turn that into work for you.
Leads at the curb
A neighbor asks about service. The tech adds them as a lead on the spot, and the app shows which route day fits that address and a suggested price.
Quotes on the spot
A pump is failing. The tech writes the quote in the app and sends it to the customer before they leave the yard.
Invoices from the truck
Give a tech the invoice permission and they can bill extra chemicals or a repair right there, sent by email or charged to the customer's saved card.
Put a tech on commission and the repair work orders they service pay them a share: commission is a percentage of the revenue on every stop they complete, and the quality bonus multiplies it too.
And you get your time back
The checking up, the chasing and the payroll math stop being your job.
No more checking up on stops
Every completed stop is rated out of 100 from GPS start and finish at the pool, tasks checked off, required photos, time on site, callbacks and the customer thumbs up. The scorecard ranks each tech and gives coaching tips, so you know who needs a ride-along without driving the route.
Payroll built from the stops
Payroll lists every stop each tech ran and what it paid, bonus included, with a CSV export for whoever runs your payroll. Pool Founder does not run payroll or withhold tax.
Techs see their own numbers
Turn on stop ratings for techs and each one sees how every stop went and their scorecard with their rank on the team, right in the app. Fewer "why did I get paid this" talks.