9/21/2016 9:09 AM
Derek,
My assistant works every 3rd weekend, and the next week he works a 4 day week after. I keep him at about 40 hours on average and flex him days off to compensate him for when the work load required him to work more hours. He never complains about the extra hours because he knows he will get them back. He already makes over the new overtime law requirement so i could work him more hours with no compensation. He likes to hunt, ride his quad bike, and spend time at his cabin. We have been a team for the past 17 years and we work great together. I hire a adequate amount of seasonal part-time help to get the work done. We are a busy golf course 6 months of the year so we really can't get much work done [u">efficiently[/u"> on the course after 11 AM.
I suggest you compensate your assistants at their current rate but transferring it to 350 hours of OT. (Example (a) $40,000/YR = $19.23/hr X 40 hrs wk and (b) $40,000/YR = $16.47/hr X 46.7 hrs wk). 500 hours of unpaid over time seems excessive to me and the fast track to burn out. You and your GM are going to be reluctant to work them the extra 150 hrs if its at $24.70/hr.
A lot of us work a ton of hours paying our dues 20+ years ago but you did not expect it to take 10 + years to get your first superintendents job. If one of my children was working this type of schedule for under $50,000 i would advise them to look for a better job, especially after paying $80,000 + for a college degree.