Free calculator for pool service owners

Can you afford to hire a new route tech?

A new route tech needs a truck, tools and a few weeks of training before the route fills. Hire before the season, and you pay before the revenue.

Cash in the bank today$ Cash the business adds each month now$ Monthly cost of the new route tech, with taxes and benefits$ Months until the new route tech brings in revenuemonths Extra revenue per month after that$ Payroll per run today (for the safe line)$

Lowest cash, next 12 months

Cost before they pay off

wages paid before new revenue starts

Paid back by

month the hire covers its own cost

Month	Without the hire	With the hire

The starting numbers are an example for a pool service business. Replace them with yours.

The worked example

Here a new route tech costs $4,500 a month and starts bringing in $6,000 a month after 1 month. The business pays $4,500 before the hire covers a dollar of it.

How to make the hire safer in a pool service business

Hire route techs in late winter so they are trained before the season, and build their first weeks into the forecast.
Fill a new route with monthly service customers before adding another truck.
Bill repair and equipment work the day it is done.

See every hire in your forecast

One Page CFO adds the hire to your 13-week forecast and shows the tightest week before you commit.

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