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The financial benefit was how easy it was for
us to prepare a business budget with accurate
projections, and it helped us to find a way to
support better employee benefits. For this
reason we continue to share the Madson People and Pet Marketing Program
with you in our book
From Problems to Profits. Our
compensation system was so stable and
easy-to-understand, no wonder we were noted
for being a large yet mostly stress-free
operation without “groomer burnout” so common
today. We also paid competitive wages and some
benefits because volume decreases the cost of
overhead allocated to each grooming service.
Remember you can invite disinformation when
you talk compensation with groomers. You must
understand that they may love it, but it also
takes its toll on them if your business ebbs
and flows. We will take the odds that you are
going to hear proclamations that some will
never accept anything other than commission.
You will hear the highest wages are always
commission. No, that is not true.
Before you accept anything you hear about
wages as truth, study the big picture. Strong
opinions are rarely backed with any financial
data to prove claims. Review a full year’s
payroll history for any claim, and if you can
compare it to the experience of other
businesses.
If you are privy to these records, and we
have been to thousands of sets of grooming
business books, you will find opinions are
just that, opinions apparently serving
ulterior motives.
Up to this point you have just been given
more in-depth insight into the personnel
management of grooming businesses than most
groomers have as insight today. Don’t be
surprised if you know more about compensation
systems than employers interviewing you.
Our
goal is to make both employers and employees
more knowledgeable with Madson Team Trimming
Operations™. With more knowledge comes
teamwork, a rare commodity in the grooming
industry?
We’re not done with commission just yet. We
don’t want to leave you without some answers
on how to compare commission offers from
prospective employers, and how you can
estimate your annual income in the world of
grooming when employers only provide you with
a commission rate. It's important that you know how to project
your annual wages as a pet groomer. Next up,
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