What to pay.... - Wage rates

[dickon]

dear tony as a landscaper myself ihave to ask if ishould be paying my lads up to 150 a day what should i be charging for their labour - 200 at least but will people pay this?not in my experience-what is going rate?

On an employed or self employed basis?

i employ full time permanent staff but the costs involved in the business make it hard to pay 300 a week the question is how much can i charge a customer for a days labour per man

[lutonlagerlout]

here in luton 30 miles north of london you are looking at 150 a day for trades (bricklayer,able to slab supervise etc.) decent labourers about £80 a day i.e. ones with a bit of kop on i suppose you would call these semiskilled. and the dogs of war i.e. no driving license,no idea,total supervison required about £50-60 a day
if you think you can pay someone minimun wage to do landscaping you will be sorely dissapointed with the results,in fact i have had customers, who have eastern europeans give a cheap quote,
start work ,draw half the money ,then pffft!! gone
it then costs my original quote plus what they lost
regards tony