My God colin. how do you think business works. Ive got to say im surprised at that comment.

Colin. British Gas just turned over a £500m profit yesterday. None of this is going to the lads on the bottom rung.
Newcastle Arena makes £1000 per barman on a busy night, and pays the barman £24.

If Strass' assistant wanted to earn that £50 in 2 hours, he would have to set up the business, pay overheads, struggle in the early months/years, do numerous free weeks, support the business with loans or other jobs, before finally getting somewhere near to it.
I worked as an assistant before. If classes were full, the 'company' would bring in £45 per hour, of which I'd get £10. If I did a birthday party, the 'company' would get £60 for 90 minutes, of which I'd get £20.

It doesn't seem fair until you realise it's their business.

Ian
I think you are really strass posting under a different name.!!
Just a little business hint for you "look after your workers and they,ll look after you"
I bet Strass/Ian has a high staff turn over!!

I'm not him.

Look after your workers and they'll look after you? Anyone who is getting paid £10 per hour(!) to coach football should be VERY happy.

Thanks for that Ian. Im still recovering from the shock of colin's comment. I wonder if he knows just how many people would welcome £10 an hour. I really cant believe he said it. Thankyou for pointing out a few things to him. Just to add some points for colin. Its my business that i worked damned hard to make it work. I go out and get the work, its my insurance and liabilities that cover their work and its me that pays the cost of hiring facilities where applicable. Maybe colin should take a look at how many multi pound companies are out there that dont offer their staff much more than minimum wage. Im really still reeling from the comment ive never heard anything like. Infact im interested to know how much colin thinks i should pay.

Strass its simple what we do get a rate for the job.Deduct pro rata the expenses and then pay 60% to the coach and we keep 40% Cos the coach is doing the work!!

All business that exist to make a profit work on basic principals. Some im sure might even adopt your 60 - 40 split in favour of the coach. Im sure that would maybe be acceptable if i were a big company and had 100 coaches on roll working at the same time, However im not and that model simply doesnt work for me. In reply to high turnover of staff please dont insult my intelligence. The people that work for me enjoy extensive support, training, advice and very good conditions of work. Consequently they want to work for me and are happy in their jobs and certainly dont grumble about at earning £10 per hour. Ive had people coming to me offering to work for free to gain experience and knowledge and in the hope that should an opportunity arise that i would consider them for it. However, i even pay those who offer to work for free as i dont exploit people. Let me finish on this note the easiest part of my job is coaching so i believe a 60 - 40 split in my favour is justified given that £10 per hour could hardly be classed as pittence.

Strass
It never does any harm for some one some time to challenge/make you reflect on the way you do things.
Its your business you run it how you like.It was you who put it up for public scrutiny.I hope you and all the lads who work for you are successful and make a difference at grass roots level

Colin

I dont mind a bit of scrutiny its just the way you make it sound like im ripping the people off who work for me and i assure you that is certainly not so. I wonder what the sles reps say that pick up £30,000 a year on target earnings and yet they have earned the company £200,000. Would you consider that fair. My take on it would be what i had to do to earn the 30,000 and was i being rewarded adequately for my efforts. I would not be expecting to be paid 120,000 which is what youre actually implying with your 60-40 split. Also i think my team do make a difference at grass roots sport and thats because of the feed back that we get from a number of sources. Id be very glad to know what it is you do and how you go about doing it and be more than willing to exchange ideas etc.