Financial Opportunities in Pond Installation

four stages of all business is strategic this next part is one of my favorite Parts Greg goes through industry standards not things that he came up with but what the industry is saying that guys inside the industry are making on an average per hour basis and you're about to see that a pond installer makes up to 253 dollars an hour and all of you guys out there making Tall Grass short are making closer to 26 dollars an hour almost 10 times more per hour and it's not because the pond installers have more skills because they don't they've actually refined and use a system that allows them to just come into place and get everything nailed down almost to the point where where they're not even thinking kind of like when you're cutting grass and you put on your headphones and you listen to a podcast when you're installing a pond you've got a system in place where you're not worried about all the minutia and the details because you've already worked through it and you've now you're now building a pond off muscle memory but I'm going to let Greg actually show you some of those different stats because it's my favorite part of his whole presentation all right let's do that now okay I'll read it to you all right so the four categories are design build commercial maintenance residential maintenance and residential Mason including irrigation so design build commercial maintenance residential and irrigation um of the number of survey customers 326 contractors 479 and 529. they found out for design build it was the highest profit margin of any of the companies it was 51 dollars per man hour it was a couple years old so let's say it's 70 60 70 per minute hour what does design build mean uh full service operation so building building um hardscapes saucecapes and maybe even waterscapes a little bit in there but I'm going to tell you the difference between a waterscape from a contractor that does dabbles in it and a full-time pond building the commercial maintenance as you would imagine is the lowest because it's supply and demand Commodities a few years ago it was 36 bucks per man Hour return on investment okay I'd say it's probably 10 bucks more than that let's say 46 dollars now and then residential maintenance is a little bit higher than commercial maintenance of 40 bucks per man hour that is the average return based on the survey of 326 479 to 529 industry Associates through Planet our industry organization commercial maintenance and residential maintenance is your Mo…