MTmachinist
Plastic
- Joined
- Aug 26, 2018
Hello,
We are a a relatively small job shop with around 20 employees and about 15 machinists. Machines Range from a couple conversational mills and lathes to CNC lathes and mills and a couple 5 axis mills. Most of our work is small batch 5-10 part runs with few production jobs (100-500 parts). All parts range in complexity from simple blocks with a couple holes in them to full 5 axis complicated housings. We do about a 50/50 mix of repeat jobs and new prototypes.
We are paid by the hour right now but has anyone had any luck paying employees by the job? as in getting a percentage of the quoted price of the job.
If you are getting paid by the job, would each employee need to be a private contractor? would employee be responsible for ordering and paying for tooling? Would the employee "rent machine time" from the company? Is this even possible to do with this amount of employees under one roof?
Thanks in advance for any insight!
We are a a relatively small job shop with around 20 employees and about 15 machinists. Machines Range from a couple conversational mills and lathes to CNC lathes and mills and a couple 5 axis mills. Most of our work is small batch 5-10 part runs with few production jobs (100-500 parts). All parts range in complexity from simple blocks with a couple holes in them to full 5 axis complicated housings. We do about a 50/50 mix of repeat jobs and new prototypes.
We are paid by the hour right now but has anyone had any luck paying employees by the job? as in getting a percentage of the quoted price of the job.
If you are getting paid by the job, would each employee need to be a private contractor? would employee be responsible for ordering and paying for tooling? Would the employee "rent machine time" from the company? Is this even possible to do with this amount of employees under one roof?
Thanks in advance for any insight!