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When there is no work, dealers don’t want to pay techs. With flat rate, the techs have to wait with no pay. Doesn’t cost the dealer anything to have you waiting around. Perfect for them but bad for a tech. Win Win for the dealer. I think hourly pay plus commission would be great. The dealer charges $100 per hour but pays techs only 15-20% of that in most cases. They could afford it surely. This way, a tech could count on a minimum paycheck instead of riding a financial rollercoaster. VERY STRESSFUL .When its busy, he has an incentive to make more money. Everybody wins. This just makes sense. The base pay should be based on your skill level because some techs only do easy jobs that pay well and other techs do all of the poor paying and difficult jobs. Work is not equally distributed and this is where flat rate rewards low skill techs and punishes highly skilled professional techs. This would also improve customer satisfaction greatly. I have been in this business for 30+ years and I can tell you that without happy customers, everyone at the dealer looses out. I work at a dealership that understands how important “happy customers” are and we are busy pretty much all the time. Being an automobile technician is a highly skilled job and this field is loosing good technicians due to its pay system. Standards should be higher to be a technician and so should the pay. I have considered writing a book that would be very informative to customers as well as people thinking about being an automobile technician. Customers do not know how this all works. They would find it very interesting, I think. Thanks for reading my comment. It is something that I am very passionate about.
When there is no work, dealers don’t want to pay techs. With flat rate, the techs have to wait with no pay. Doesn’t cost the dealer anything to have you waiting around. Perfect for them but bad for a tech. Win Win for the dealer. I think hourly pay plus commission would be great. The dealer charges $100 per hour but pays techs only 15-20% of that in most cases. They could afford it surely. This way, a tech could count on a minimum paycheck instead of riding a financial rollercoaster. VERY STRESSFUL .When its busy, he has an incentive to make more money. Everybody wins. This just makes sense. The base pay should be based on your skill level because some techs only do easy jobs that pay well and other techs do all of the poor paying and difficult jobs. Work is not equally distributed and this is where flat rate rewards low skill techs and punishes highly skilled professional techs. This would also improve customer satisfaction greatly. I have been in this business for 30+ years and I can tell you that without happy customers, everyone at the dealer looses out. I work at a dealership that understands how important “happy customers” are and we are busy pretty much all the time. Being an automobile technician is a highly skilled job and this field is loosing good technicians due to its pay system. Standards should be higher to be a technician and so should the pay. I have considered writing a book that would be very informative to customers as well as people thinking about being an automobile technician. Customers do not know how this all works. They would find it very interesting, I think. Thanks for reading my comment. It is something that I am very passionate about.