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  • From: "Dalew Farms" <dalew AT phonenet.ca>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Employee/manager Salary and Incentives
  • Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:34:39 -0500

Hello,

This winter we're planning on hiring a Market Garden/CSA manager for our farm. This person will be primarily responsible for making sure that the work gets done that needs to be, when it needs to be, for about 3/4 of the various veggies we grow for our CSA, as well as for packing our CSA shares so they are ready for customers. ( Our CSA system is mostly pre-packaged delivered to a meeting point in a parking lot). They will oversee student workers/interns to help them with the work.

I'm interested to hear thoughts and ideas from folks on the list about ways to structure salary so as to provide a good incentive to make sure that the person not only does a great job, but is rewarded for doing so. We can't afford huge bonuses, but we'd like to have something spelled out ahead of time so that the person has some targets to aim for. However, when my wife and I sat down and tried to spell out some, it turned out to be harder than it first sounded! :)

We had talked about making the bonus based on our CSA customer return rate for the next season. We've been hitting our target of 80%+ and we want to keep that there, but we felt that it might not be fair to the potential manager if that was the only way of calculating their bonus because there could be other factors beyond their control affecting the return signup rate.

I won't say too much more on this, but again, I'm looking for advice and ideas, either from farms who have allready hired someone and have found good ways to provide/structure incentives for employees, or maybe from folks on this list who could be, or have been an employee and either liked or disliked certain incentives!

Thanks

Dave



Dalew Farms
Web: www.dalewfarms.ca
E-mail: dalew AT phonenet.ca
Phone: (705)594-1823
Fax: (705)594-1834
10781 Hwy 64, Lavigne Ont
P0H 1R0




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