Painting Tips
When to Hire Your First Painting Employee (Signals and What Changes)
You are ready when you are consistently turning down work you could win, your quoting is slipping because you are on the tools all day,…
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Tips, guides, and advice for painting contractors on pricing, estimating, and growing your business.
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How to Retain Painting Employees (Why Painters Leave and What Keeps Them)
Painters rarely leave over one thing. They leave because the weeks are unpredictable, the pay structure feels arbitrary, the work is disorganised, or there is…
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Painter Job Description: What to Put in the Ad and the Role
A painter job description should state the actual work, the standard it has to be done to, the hours, the travel, the tools and licences…
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Workers Compensation for Painters: What It Covers and When It Applies
Workers compensation is the cover that pays for medical treatment and lost earnings when someone who works for you is injured doing that work. In…
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Painting Business Insurance: What Cover You Carry and Why It Exists
A painting business usually carries several separate policies, each covering a different kind of loss. Broadly: harm you cause to other people or their property,…
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Employee vs Subcontractor for Painting Crews: What the Difference Actually Is
An employee works for your painting business. A subcontractor runs their own business and works with yours. That difference decides who withholds tax, who carries…
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Painting Crew Size
Put on as many painters as the job has separate work areas for, and no more. Crew size is set by how much workable surface…
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Cost to Hire a Painting Employee
A painting employee costs meaningfully more than their wage. On top of the hourly rate sit statutory contributions, insurance, paid time off, tools, vehicle and…
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Painter Hourly Rate vs Piece Rate
Hourly pays for time and leaves the overrun risk with you. Piece rate pays for completed work and shifts that risk to the painter. Hourly…
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How Much to Pay Painters
Set painter pay from three things: what your local market actually pays, where the role sits on your own ladder, and what your job costing…