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How much should you pay a cleaning employee?

Excellent question and we're going to talk about that today.

Hi there, I'm Angela Brown and this is Ask a House Cleaner.

This is the show where you get to ask a house cleaning question

and I get to help you find an answer.

Now, today's show is brought to us by HouseCleaning360.com

which is a place where you can list your house

cleaning business and then homeowners can go on there and they can do a search by their

location and they can find somebody to come clean their house.

Now, did you know that on HouseCleaning360.com there's a place on there where you can list

that you are hiring people.

If somebody lives in your area and they want to come work for your cleaning company they

can do a search and find who's hiring and then contact that company, and that is part

of your membership, that's doesn't cost you anything extra to do that.

If you are hiring and you want to expand your business go to HouseCleaning360.com and make

sure that you click that thing and then explain a little bit about the job offering that you

have so that you can find the right candidate.

All right, how much do you pay a new hire?

This comes from a guy that's been in the business for about a year, here's his question.

Speaker 2: Hi Angela I've been in the house cleaning for about a year now but we're getting

bigger, we're starting to grow more.

We're wondering, should we hire on another individual and if we do how much should you

pay a new added individual to your business to where you're at least some kind of money

coming in from them doing work for you?

Much appreciated, and my wife's name is Valerie.

Angela Brown: All right, so Mr. and Mrs. Valerie, here is my answer.

It's going to depend on where you live and the going rate in your market and what the

minimum wage in your market is, and then how much extra you're willing to pay.

My suggestion for hiring a new house cleaning employee is that they are taking some of your

responsibilities from you and so as you outsource that that's got to be worth something to you.

My suggestion is that you don't pay rock bottom prices because this is a valuable service to you.

What you also need to take into consideration is that you're hiring a human.

This is a robot, this is a human, this is not an automated process.

This person has feelings, and emotions, and good days, and bad days, and they might get

sick, and they might have children, and they have a bunch of other things.

You have to factor those other things in there and then make it worth their time so they

want to show up to work for you every day.

Now, as you hire somebody beyond how much money you're going to pay them there are a

couple of things to consider.

What are they making right now and what do they need to make?

The reason I ask this question is because there are people, and I made this mistake

early on in my career, where I thought that if I paid them more than the going wage that

they would be loyal to me and they would just show up and work every day.

I erroneously made that mistake and here's the reason why.

There was a certain number in their head of money that they had to make every month in

order to pay their bills.

By Thursday, Wednesday or Thursday of every week they had already met that quota, therefore

they would call out every Thursday and they just wouldn't show up the rest of the week

because they had already made that amount of money.

What you need to be aware of is you don't want to overpay them because you want there

to be an incentive for them to come to work.

Then, you also want to pay them enough that it makes it worth their time coming to work

so it's this really fine line.

I can't just throw out a number at you because the minimum wage is different all across the country.

Also, we're not just talking all across the country but these videos and podcasts that

I'm creating are now worldwide.

We're in 35 different countries right now and so the wage is different in every different area.

There's no fair price to say it's X amount of dollars but it's something you're going

to have to sit down with a pencil and paper and you're going to have to figure out how

much can I pay, how much is fair, how much is an incentive, and how much is an incentive

for them not to call out on me and that they will be reliable and consistent?

Those are a couple of things to think about.

The next thing that I want to think about is, unless you have 50 employees you are not

required by law to offer any kind of a health benefits package but it would be nice if you did.

What you have to figure out is, is this important to this employee?

Now, Valerie, it sounds like you just have one employee that you're about to hire and

so you may not offer a benefits package to that one employee.

But you may want to start thinking, when I get up to six employees what I would like

to do is create a benefits package that pays for their dental, and their eyes, and all

the different stuff that is going to help them out, maybe an annual checkup or something

like that, maybe a prescription card.

There are certain pieces that you can put together that's not a full health benefits

package that will be an incentive for them to stay on with your company.

Also, I have to mention Savvy Perks.

Savvy Perks is a company that we have created along with America's largest employee discount

network so that we can bring independent business owners like yourself and your one employee

a benefits package that offers you an employee pricing at over 250,000 companies across the

United States.

It is available in some parts of Canada and if it's not available where you are in different

parts of the world you can request that different organizations and services be part of that,

and then the sales team will go to work and try to recruit those people to the network.

This gives you an enormous savings and discounts on things that you normally buy, like your

tires for your company vehicles and your oil rotations for your company vehicles.

It also pays for a bunch of other things.

Let's say that you wanted to take your employee out to lunch once a month, now you've got

employee pricing and discounts at all these different restaurants and different fast food places.

If you're driving to lunch, to and from work, it's nationwide.

It's an amazing network that I'm thrilled to be a part of.

There's something you might consider like that, that would help sweeten the pot.

Then what you also have to consider is that there must be flex days.

As a house cleaner there must be flex days.

If a house cleaner doesn't feel good, they need a mental health day, they feel sick,

they don't want to come in for whatever reason, you need to be somewhat understanding about that.

It's really easy to say, "Well, we have customers and you can't afford to be sick."

As a business owner I can't afford to be sick and so nobody holds my company more responsible

than I do.

I'm toughest on myself but I'm more flexible on my employees because they are people, and

in order for people to keep coming back you have to let them have a sick day.

If they have a mental day and they're just like, "Hey, I can't deal with things today."

"All right great, take the day off."

It's not a paid day off but they're taking the day off to clear their head or whatever

they need and when they come back they're going to be in a better state of mind and

they will be more willing to work with you because you worked with them.

There are a couple of things that you need to think about and it might mean that you

hire two people instead of just one so that you have a person to fill in when someone

else is taking the day off.

It's possible that you have four people to do the work of three and whoever falls out

that day or whoever calls out or whoever has sick kids or band practice or scouts or whatever

it is that the parents have to do, everybody works around each other and now those four

people are actually the equivalent of three.

You have the equivalent of three, maybe three and a half payrolls but you get the work consistently

of three people.

There are different ways to spin your business so that your business still operates on a

very small shoestring budget.

If you're still starting out and you're in year one, yes you're growing and yes you're

expanding but there's still a lot of things that you need to take into consideration before

you just give somebody a huge raise and give them the keys to the kingdom.

That would be my suggestion as you're getting started and

as you're building your business and expanding.

Alrighty, that's my two cents for today and until we meet again,

leave the world a cleaner place than when you found it.

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HOW MUCH WATER YOU SHOULD DRINK IN A DAY FOR WEIGHT LOSS - Duration: 2:05.

how much water you should drink in a day for weight loss here is a way to know

how much water we should drink in a day to lose weight take your weight into

consideration the general rule is the heavier you are the more the amount of

water you need to drink obviously people water needs differ from that of one

another convert your weight into pounds roughly

1 kg is equal to 2 point 2 0 pounds multiply your weight in pounds by 2 by 3

so if you weigh 200 pounds then multiplied 200 by 2 by 3 that gives you

an approximate figure of 133 you should be drinking around 133 ounces of water

every day now is when we take into consideration the amount of exercise you

do if you workout for 30 minutes a day then you should drink an extra 12 ounces

of water keep in mind that these calculations are done based on a very

large and generalized sampling of people there are three rules that you must

follow drink water even when you are not

thirsty feeling thirsty means your organ systems have sent a signal to the brain

and that means you are already a little dehydrated so drink water consciously

all through the day you can make use of mobile apps that remind you to drink

water every hour if you workout you need extra water just make sure never to gulp

a water right after working out just sip water and let it to wet your mouth if

plain water bores you use lemon mint or even citrusy fruits for flavoring thank

you for watching this video like and subscribe for more videos

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Charlie and Lola How Many More Minutes? Best Cartoon For Kids & Children - Jayden Lee - Duration: 16:54.

PLEASE LIKE, SHARE, SUBCRIBE video! Thanks you very much!

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What Your Receptionist Says about Your Company Culture - Masters of Scale - Duration: 2:37.

If you want to build a strong culture, the first thing you have to do is open your eyes.

You have to start observing your culture the instant you arrive at the office — as soon

as you walk through the front door.

When you walk into a company, you instantly learn a huge amount.

And you're coming to see who?

I'm in the middle of lunch.

Just hold on.

There are all sorts of cliches and truisms about first impressions.

But actually, what you see when you walk in is almost always what you get when you get

to know the company better.

So as the world's lone expert on reception desks, I had to ask Margaret: What's the

friendliest reception she's ever received?

I can think of a company in San Francisco that I've written about a lot called Method

Home Care Products, where the founders and senior people in the company actually take

turns being the receptionist...

CEO...I mean, receptionist!

...because they want to know who is coming to see them.

At this remarkably welcoming company, the leadership team doesn't just hand their

employees manuals on how to behave — neither are they passive observers.

They embody their cultural principles.

I believe that a healthy culture emerges only when every employee, from the CEO to the receptionist,

opts into the culture every day.

As an illustrator I draw a lot of flowers and nature-inspired things.

That's Dylan Mierzwinski.

She's a teacher on Skillshare, an online learning community with thousands of creative,

business, and tech classes.

Dylan is part of what Skillshare calls "the independent class."

By 2020, up to 50% of American workers will be freelancers.

But Dylan didn't always feel free.

I felt like I was in this creative industry, and fully not creating anything.

I was just somebody else's hands.

Then she took a class on Skillshare.

I was like, "Wow, this person's working on projects that I want to be working on, and

they have the cool home office, and they wear plaid shirts, and I want to be doing this."

Dylan took class after class to build her skills and then she started teaching.

Now she's the one with a cool home office… and freedom.

I still do freelance work, but I'm very specific about what I'll take on.

Skillshare has afforded me that flexibility.

One hundred percent it is not hyperbole to say that Skillshare changed my career – and

because of that my life.

Ready to change your life?

Go to skillshare.com/scale and get your first two months free.

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How Much Does Drug and Alcohol Rehab Cost? | Rehab Insurance Coverage - Duration: 0:51.

In absence of insurance the average cost of treatment

in the United States is $22,000 a month.

Certainly there's more expensive and certainly there's less.

You do get what you pay for, and I know I said

in other parts of the videos that nobody's

reinventing the wheel, but at the same time,

there are treatment centers that do better jobs.

It's all based on length of stay, location,

activities, trauma resolution and therapy.

And the average center as I said's $22,000,

you don't have to spend $30 grand a month at some big

named treatment centers, they get the same care

somewhere else for $15 to $18 grand a month.

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Mortgage Rates Are Rising Fast! What Does That Mean For How Much Your Qualify For? - Duration: 1:11.

hey this is Chris the mortgage pro you know we're hitting on an era right now

where interest rates are going up and you might be saying to yourself well

what does that mean to my qualification well the truth is the higher the

interest rate goes as long as your income stays the same the amount you're

qualified for will obviously go down but sometimes there's ways around that if

you have a few bucks let me explain if you're approved for

$300,000 or you was six months ago or three months ago because interest rates

have gone up in the last three months and now you'd be approved for two

hundred and seventy thousand dollars let's call it well you want to buy a

three hundred thousand dollar house how're we gonna get past that maybe you

want to pay a couple of points by the interest rate back down and then you're

still gonna qualify now it's gonna cost you some money to do that but it's still

an option you could still buy that house you could still fire your landlord

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Drinking Alcohol Can Raise Cancer Risk. How Much Is Too Much? - Duration: 6:21.

Drinking Alcohol Can Raise Cancer Risk. How Much Is Too Much?

A little bit of alcohol has been shown to be protective of heart health. But how does drinking influence cancer risk?.

A new study finds that light drinkers have the lowest combined risk of developing cancer and dying prematurely — even lower than people who dont drink at all.

But heres the rub: In this study, light drinking is defined as one to five drinks per week. It seems to reassure light drinkers, says study co-author Andrew Kunzmann, a researcher at Queens University Belfast.

Researchers studied about 100,000 adults who lived in cities across the U.S., including Birmingham, Ala.; Boulder, Colo.; Los Angeles; and Pittsburgh.

The participants were in their mid-50s to early 70s when the study began, and they each completed a survey about their alcohol consumption.

Researchers tracked their health for about nine years, and they found that the more a person drank, the higher their risk of getting cancer and dying.

We definitely think [the findings] give a bigger picture of whats going on, Kunzmann says. For this study, he collaborated with researchers at the National Cancer Institute in the U.S. The study is published in the scientific journal PLOS Medicine.

The study adds to the evidence that cancer risk may rise when people drink more than one drink per day, but the increase is modest. Moderate drinkers in the study had about a 10 percent increased risk of getting cancer.

Not surprisingly, the study finds that heavy drinkers are most at risk. For instance, men who drank three or more drinks per day were three to four times more likely to develop cancer of the esophagus and liver cancer.

Other alcohol-related cancers include colorectal cancer and breast cancer in women.

This study reinforces [the evidence] that people who drink a lot have higher rates of cancer and higher rates of dying from those cancers, says Noelle LoConte, an oncologist and associate professor at the University of Wisconsin.

She was not involved in the study, but NPR asked her to review the evidence.

The study comes at a time when the American Society of Clinical Oncology, a group of cancer doctors, is trying to spread awareness about the risks of excessive alcohol consumption.

LoConte is the lead author of the groups recent statement calling for policies aimed at reducing alcohol consumption.

Were not proponents of complete abstinence. There probably is an amount of drinking thats OK, LoConte says. But from a cancer-prevention standpoint, drinking the least amount of alcohol possible would be the best strategy..

Many studies have pointed to the risks of excessive drinking, yet we do not think that most Americans are aware of the link between alcohol and cancer, LoConte says.

Most people know that too much sun exposure increases the risk of skin cancer and that smoking increases the risk of lung cancer.

But a survey done by ASCO last year found that 7 in 10 adults did not recognize drinking alcohol as a risk factor for cancer.

When it comes to the lifestyle factors and habits that people can control — or change — to reduce their risk of disease, alcohol is pretty high up on the list.

Alcohol is estimated to be the third-largest modifiable risk factor for cancer, says Susan Gapstur, an epidemiologist with the American Cancer Society.

About 19 percent of cancers are linked to smoking, 8 percent are linked to obesity or excess body weight — and about 5 percent are linked to alcohol.

Alcohol is also estimated to be the third-largest contributor to overall cancer deaths in both men and women, Gapstur says. Strikingly, alcohol is estimated to account for 39,060 breast cancers [in the U.S.] per year in women, she says.

One step toward cutting back is to be more aware — and more realistic — about how much you drink. The first thing we need to talk about is: What is a drink? says LoConte.

A drink is a single shot of liquor, 5 ounces of wine or 12 ounces of beer. Its easy to consume more than you realize. Some mixed drinks contain multiple shots of liquor, and some craft beers have higher concentrations of alcohol.

Current guidelines recommend that women consume no more than one drink per day, and men consume no more than two drinks per day.

But LoConte says this may turn out to be too much. I think this study, as I reviewed it, looked like a safer amount would be one drink a day for everybody, regardless of gender, LoConte says.

At least thats what the study suggests. More research is underway.

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How Much Do Drug and Alcohol Interventions Really Cost? - Duration: 1:37.

Interventions are not covered by insurance.

That's the first thing I want to talk about.

A lot of times people will tell us

they've talked to a treatment center

that said it's covered by insurance.

There is no billing code for intervention.

If a treatment center

is telling you that their insurance,

your insurance covers it,

what they're saying is that you've got great insurance

and they'll take money off of the treatment

to pay for the intervention.

The insurance company will not pay.

Call 'em yourself, they do not pay for intervention.

The average cost of a professional interventionist

with experience, insurance, and some licensures

ranges anywhere from 3800

and we've seen it as high as 18,500

for people who use the invitational model.

So the cost of intervention

generally is around five grand,

maybe 6,000, I should say 5,000 to 6,000 with expenses.

A lot of times families hear that

and think that's so expensive.

If you add up the costs you've spent

on the addiction,

it is so much less expensive to do an intervention

than it is to keep the addiction going

through enabling and codependency.

Interventions are far less

than what a DUI's gonna cost.

Interventions are way less

than what bonds are gonna cost.

Interventions are far less

than what, you know,

it would cost to handle somebody's death.

Interventions are not expensive

considering what it is that you get.

The cost of the intervention

includes us staying on for as long as you need us.

Families should take advantage of that.

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How Much Light Do Creeping Bentgrass Putting Greens Need? (Summary) - Duration: 3:22.

Turfgrass needs light to survive.

In shady conditions, direct sunlight is diffused or blocked out,

reducing the amount of photosynthetically active radiation,

or PAR, that reaches the turf.

"So PAR is a narrow bandwidth within the visible spectrum,

from 400-700 nm, that plants use to complete the photosynthesis process."

Insufficient levels of PAR compromise the ability of turf to photosynthesize energy

in the form of carbohydrates.

The minimum amount of light needed to maintain acceptable turfgrass quality can be quantified

in terms of the Daily Light Integral, or DLI, which is a measure of cumulative PAR

for a given day and area.

Previous studies of minimum DLI threshold values for putting greens primarily focused

on warm-season turfgrass species like ultradwarf bermudagrass, so no minimum DLI threshold

values have yet been established for putting greens utilizing the cool-season creeping bentgrass.

Researchers at the University of Arkansas Department of Horticulture designed a study

to evaluate shade timing and intensity on creeping bentgrass putting greens.

Researchers also evaluated the effects of trinexapac-ethyl growth regulator

and Turf Screen plant protectant.

At the conclusion of this two-year study, researchers calculated a

recommended threshold DLI for creeping bentgrass putting greens of

30 moles per square meter per day, providing a valuable piece of information

to golf course superintendents.

This study found that shade intensities of 70% or greater, even when applied for only

half of the day, caused turf quality to decrease,

with 90% shade causing the most significant deterioration.

During the first growing season, shade timing was also found to play a significant role in turf quality.

"In the first year in 2016, we observed that afternoon shade was more detrimental

to turfgrass health than AM shade.

We didn't necessarily see that in 2017, but it was an interesting find

that we did see in 2016."

This study also found that use of both Primo Maxx trinexapac-ethyl growth regulator and

Turf Screen turf protectant may help maintain or improve turf quality,

especially during peak summer stress conditions.

Golf course superintendents can expect to see their creeping bentgrass putting greens

decline in quality if the total light received is less than 30 moles per square meter per day.

For more information about The University of Arkansas Department of Horticulture and

their research program and projects, please contact Dr. Wayne Mackay.

Primary funding for this research was provided by the USGA.

Additional funding for this research was provided by a gift from the Arkansas Turfgrass Association

and from the Arkansas Golf Course Superintendents Association.