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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…
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Painting Business Software: How to Choose the Right Tools (Category Guide)
Start with the part of your business that is costing you jobs, not the part that annoys you most. For nearly every painting contractor that…
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How to Track Painting Job Costs (And Find Out If You Actually Made Money)
Most painters know their revenue and guess their profit. The guess is almost always optimistic. Job costing is the process that replaces the guess with…
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How to Take Payment on a Painting Job (Methods, Timing and Security)
The short version: collect the final balance while you are still standing on the job, using a method that clears fast and leaves a record.…