How do you pay your employees?

[Chips]

As the biz grows and the possibility of adding true employees would be involved, I was curious as to how you all (affiliates) compensate your "employees".

I know starting out, I was helping a forum owner and he told me to get new brands and post them up, set up promotions, etc and I would keep all earnings from the players I signed.

I know some larger affiliate portals/networks have true employees and pay them a percentage of profits or a salary.

So how do you handle it with your business?

[Holland87]

Great question Chips!

I am the employee and not the employer and am very interested as to how others pay their staff.

[LiveCasinoPartners]

I use a lot of outsource labor. I usually pay by the hour for copy writers. Programmers, coders, or graphical design guys receive a price per job.

[baldidiot]

Great question! I do most things myself, but whenever I do get help I always pay per task.

[Chips]

Thanks, I understand the outsourcing, but what if you were to actually employ someone? This person may be a moderator or someone tasked with updating pages, promos, etc.

[MichaelCorfman]

Most of Casino City's employees work for us full time and are paid a salary plus typical benefits like vacation time, health insurance, etc. plus an equity stake in the business. In some cases we will also pay a share of revenue associated with the work of an individual to tie compensation more directly to revenue performance of a portion of our business.

We do pay a few employees on an hourly basis, particularly for more junior positions and part-time positions. There are also some situations where our relationship is as a contractor hiring a subcontractor do work for us, and that can be on either a fee for service or fee per labor hour basis.

Since most of the overall compensation we provide is for straight salaries, I have checked that item in the poll.

Michael

[matted]

I'm a one man biz. But I do outsource almost all of my content generation and (to my dismay at this point) SEO type stuff.

For one, everyone I hire is an independent contractor. They are mostly paid a flat fee (in the case of SEO). I've even got my content writers largely on a flat fee provided they provide a minimum level of content. I do this to prevent authors fromt stretching articles to reach a minimum threshold or from chopping articles into pieces to get more posts.

[GamTrak]

My folks are classified as 'Contractors' instead of employees for tax reasons.

I have one worker on a monthly salary for doing a set task. Another is on a revenue percentage of monthly income for old accounts that I had before them and all new accounts they sign up for are split 50/50. This means that they do all of the promotion for the brands. They also have access to all of the affiliate accts for verification.

[pgaming]

I don't pay anyone but if I did it would be per contract. Same way I am paid for my trade.

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[Holland87]

My folks are classified as 'Contractors' instead of employees for tax reasons.

This was something I brought up to my boss but was told that because what I do is not considered a "job" that would have set price, outcome and be finished eventually (like when you hire a company to re-do your kitchen for a set price) I could not be paid like that. This is because I am given "chores" all month long.

Gamtrak, can I send you a PM?

[tryme]

With my real business (b2b lead generation, since you ask), I pay full time employees a salary. Part time employees are paid on a 'self-employed' basis as they usually have other income sources.

With affiliate stuff: I pay a flat rate to people who do content creation, link building and so forth.

[Dominique]

I hire contractors on a flat fee monthly basis.

[GamTrak]

Gamtrak, can I send you a PM?

Sure thing Holland.

[casinogod]

Our employees are on a salary. However we do also use freelance workers, who are either paid and hourly rate or a fix fee for a fixed task.

hope that helps.

[Nandakishore]

At present I am my sole workforce. Earlier I had an employee on salary basis plus a fortnight vacation.

[penny-slot-machines]

Mine is all DIY, apart from hiring content writers on a per article basis