| Has anyone tried to consider the numbers involved with this business? About how long does it take for two maids to clean a house (or in other words, how many houses can two maids clean in one 8-10 hour day?)? Also, about how many maids do you have working for you? In trying to come up with a ball-park figure: My guess would be that each pair of maids could bring in about $600-800 a day in revenue (cleaning 4-5 homes). Of this it would seem that about $400-500 goes to paying the maids (say , $200-250 per maid), with about $75 dollars going to daily expenses (gasoline, cleaning materials, etc), leaving whatever remains going to other major business expenses and profit.
If his workers are busy 20 days a month, it would seem that a bunch of the so-called monthly costs of being an employer (say around $750 per month per employee) only comes out to be around $75 dollars a day (per pair of maids). I have no clue as to what this value actually is (or how much of it would be part of their hourly wage), I'm just guessing. All in all though, I would guess that for each maid he has, on average it is costing him around $275-325 per day while bringing in around $300-400 per day. If their is any truth to the numbers above (which one number being off could dramatically mess everything up), it would appear that he is bringing in about $50-75 per maid. If he prices his service to keep that profit in mind (to make at lease $50 per maid per day), then having a staff of 10 maids could end up making around $100-150k a year. And I suppose the scaling would seem to work pretty linearly; if he doubles the number of mades or how much he brings in per maid, then his profit would double as such. Of course there are things like insurance and training (perhaps those costs total 10% of each maids daily wage and is included in that value)... Based on these numbers though, having 10 maids would require having 25 homes to clean each day (or about 500 per month). I see that he has given out 2254 lunches so far (if I really wanted to make an accurate estimate of the business he is doing). Anyhow, is there anything major that I'm missing in these numbers? I'm just trying to make an estimation.. |