One area contractors struggle is hiring qualified Superintendents and Managers. The problem lies in the mentality of the contractor who believes he should be able to pay a qualified manager $XX.xx per hour because of what the standard pay range for carpenters and foreman is. A qualified field superintendent will balk at most offers but that's not the worst part. That qualified super will go work for a competitor while the bad taste stays in his mouth over the low offer he received from your company. He will associate that company with being cheap and unprofessional from then on. When he sees your company on a bidding list for projects he is in charge of, when collogues ask his opinion, and so on. That relationship is hard to recover, and the reputation can be even harder to repair. When trying to determine what you hope to get from hiring upper management, identify what level of impact on your annual revenue you want them to have and base your pay rate on that. Your qualified applicants will base their pay expectations on cost of living in the area of work, not what you pay your persons in the field. Hope that helps!
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