TradesLandscapersHiring and team

Landscaper Business HiringYou cannot get off the tools until someone else can run the site, and hiring has burnt you before.

Hiring and leading a landscaping crew. What the Gardening and Landscaping Services Award actually costs you, how apprentices and casuals are paid, and how to build a crew that can set out, run and finish a job without you standing on it.

Get started freeBook a coaching call
A painted scene of a landscaping crew screeding a bed of sand along a rail, stacked pavers waiting beside them

The week this is about

Sound Like Your Landscaping Business?

You do not know what a crew member really costs

The hourly rate is the start of it. Then there is super, workers compensation, leave, the tool allowance, the vehicle allowance and the hours they are on site but not producing. You priced the job off the wage and the on-costs took the margin.

The last one you hired lasted a season

They came on in spring, could not read a level, needed watching all day and left when it got cold. You went back to doing it yourself and told yourself hiring does not work, when what did not work was having no process for it.

Nobody on the crew can run a site but you

You have good workers who will do anything you point them at, and not one who can set out a job, order materials, talk to the client and make a call on a wall detail. So you are still on every site, every day, forever.

Without a crew that can run a site, your landscaping business has a hard ceiling: it is exactly as big as the hours you can personally stand on the ground.

Hiring and team

Here Is What We Do About It.

Hiring, team and leadership training in the Learning Hub covers what a crew actually costs, how to hire on purpose and how to grow a leading hand who can run a site. Tradie Teams puts you with owners doing the same thing now, and Freedom Fighter 1:1 builds the crew plan around getting you off the tools.

A complimentary coaching call

Thirty minutes on what is capping the business, and what to fix first.

Learning Hub

The full lesson library inside the Tradies App, self paced, $199/month.

Freedom Fighter 1:1

One to one with your own dedicated expert, built around getting the owner free.

How it works

Three Steps, Starting Tonight.

Step 1

Hire before you are desperate

Every bad hire in this industry happens in the same week: the week you were already too busy. The training covers hiring on a plan instead of on a panic.

Step 2

Give them a system to follow

People do not fail because they are lazy. They fail because nobody wrote down what good looks like. That is why systems and hiring are the same problem.

Step 3

Lead them, then get off the tools

The coaching goes into the bit that is genuinely hard: running a team when you were trained as a tradesperson, and letting go of work you can do faster yourself.

What changes

What Landscaping Business Hiring Actually Changes.

Three things landscaping business owners walk away able to do.

Cost a crew member fully, including award allowances, super and workers compensation.

Hire to a written process instead of taking whoever answers the ad in spring.

Train a leading hand who can set out and run a site without you.

9,000+tradies trained4.9★Google rating4.9★App Store rating

Questions

Landscaper Business Hiring, Answered.

What award covers landscaping employees in Australia?
The Gardening and Landscaping Services Award MA000101, published by the Fair Work Commission. It sets the classification levels, casual loading, overtime, and allowances including a weekly tool allowance and a per kilometre vehicle allowance. Fair Work reissues the pay guide each 1 July after the Annual Wage Review, so check it every year before you set your charge-out rate.
How much do I pay an apprentice landscaper, and what about an adult apprentice?
Apprentice rates under MA000101 are a percentage of the trade rate and step up each year, and an adult apprentice starts at 80% of the Level 4 rate in year one. Casuals carry a 25% loading on top. Get the current figures from the Fair Work pay guide, then price the job so the crew cost is covered rather than absorbed.
Should I use subcontractors or put a crew on wages?
Subbies suit variable build work and cost you nothing in the quiet months, but you carry TPAR reporting obligations and less control over how the job runs. Wages give you a crew you can train into a leading hand, and a fixed cost through winter. The answer depends on your work mix, and it is exactly the sort of call coaching is for.

Landscapers

The Other Ways We Help Landscapers.

Training

Landscaper Business Training

Structured training that turns what landscapers know on the tools into a business that runs properly.

Coaching

Landscaper Business Coaching

A coach who has run a trade business, in your corner, holding landscapers to the plan.

Systems

Landscaper Business Systems

The documented process that lets the work happen properly when landscapers are not standing there.

The free app

Landscaper Business App

Lessons, tools and a room full of other owners, free for landscapers with an active ABN.

Marketing and leads

Landscaper Business Marketing

How landscapers get the phone ringing with the jobs worth having, not just the cheap ones.

Pricing and profit

Landscaper Business Pricing

The number landscapers should actually be charging, worked out properly rather than guessed.

Everything for landscapers

Talk It Through First.

Get started freeBook a coaching call

The Crew, daily Q&A, starter courses and your complimentary coaching session. Free with an active ABN. No card, no trial clock.

Turning over $20k a month or more? Thirty minutes, one on one with a trade business coach, on what is capping the business and what to fix first.