Try to piece rate set up for those workers who are familiar with the work of a job. For example an apartment complex- The crew gets a set price to rough in, install the service and feeders, or finish it per apartment unit. Once they agree to this, your labor per unit is set. Make it attractive enough for them to beat their regular pay per week if they do at least 2 more units/week than you planned for. Let them know that any mistakes of the work are theis to fix at NO cost to you unless it's your mistake. Any inspection failures are treated the same way. For repeative work this ccan be very good for you and them.
One crew I used for a year made an average of 4200/wk split 3 ways just to rough in the units. They gave me 24 units/week. After the first two weeks the only fixes were caused by other trades or a foreman's layout error.
Normally these apprentices got 12.00/hr for a 50 hr week. or 660.00 gross hourly vs 1400.00/wk on piece rate On hourly I got an average of 15 units/wk
This worked for me quite well until I ran out of work they could do.
