How many jobs a week

[Screened Gear]

I am trying to gauge my shop. How many jobs a week do you do, how many employees do you have. So if you want to just give the jobs per employee that would work. I know alot of guys on here do a ton of work.

I am doing about 8 jobs a week per person now, just hired. That includes non printing employees.

[mimosatexas]

One man shop.  It ranges from about 5 a week to 20+.  I do a lot more than just print shirts though, so this would include design work, outsourced banners/stickers/etc.  I also have my own designs that I print when I have time.

[Homer]

4 employees

screen/embroidery  = 20-30/week

signage - 15-20 week
vehicles - 3-5/week
wraps = 1 or 2 / mo

other printing services, (bus cards, carbonless forms etc) 15-20 jobs

dealing with walk-ins....enough to keep a bottle of crown in the ink room.

[Sbrem]

our jobs vary in size, just like everyone else, that doesn't really tell much of a story. So far this year, we've written up 392 orders... we have two guys laid off right now...

Steve

[Screened Gear]

I know its kind of a hard thing to ask. I want to set just a simple goal for my guy. If I did total shirts or anything else as a goal it wouldn't work. Right now I am very happy with him doing 2 jobs a day. He has 3 weeks experience. He knew nothing when he got here. He has picked it up fast. I am honestly really lucky the week he started I had my hardest week ever. Without his help I would have had a mental breakdown. I just want to give him some goals to go for and to make him feel he is doing well. If anyone else has weekly goals or any kind of rewards program I would love to hear about it.

Thanks again to everyone for their help over the years to get me to this point. Life is easier and business has never been better.

[mimosatexas]

I'm not sure how well any kind of quantitative goal would work honestly, just considering the variables involved (quantity/colors per shirt/setup time/business ebb and flow/etc).  Not sure what you are having him do either (printing/screen prep/cleanup/etc).  I would say, he should be keeping busy and improving without making too many mistakes, complaining, or taking excessive breaks.  If he is doing that and your clients are happy, you should be happy.

[Sbrem]

You could try breaking areas down, because orders just vary too much. One 100 piece job with a one color print in 4 locations is nothing like 24 2 color prints on a light shirt in one location. So try one color prints; after it's set up, how many can he print in one hour? Don't have a job large enough for an hour, then time how long it takes to print say 24, let's say it's 15 minutes; then you know you/he could print 96 per hour. Then try the same thing with a 2 color print, and so on. Document the setup and breakdown separately, then add them together. To give you an idea of something to shoot for, everyone here (no rookies at all) can do at least 200 per hour, loading and unloading by themselves. Best of luck, you'll get it...

Steve

[Screened Gear]

I'm not sure how well any kind of quantitative goal would work honestly, just considering the variables involved (quantity/colors per shirt/setup time/business ebb and flow/etc).  Not sure what you are having him do either (printing/screen prep/cleanup/etc).  I would say, he should be keeping busy and improving without making too many mistakes, complaining, or taking excessive breaks.  If he is doing that and your clients are happy, you should be happy.

Its not about me being happy. I want him to have some bench marks to know so he knows he is doing well. You know the feeling you get when you do more sales each month. I want to give him some kind of goal that is not linked to total shirts or total sales. Some thing so at the end of the day he feels like he did well. I know when he is doing well. I want some way he can know he is doing well with out me reporting our sales or total shirts printed. Right now I tell him as long as he is printing 2 jobs a day and getting everything else in the shop done we are doing good. I still print so if he does that then we are killing it. Thats why I wanted to know other shops total jobs for the week so I can figure out some bench marks. Having an employee is new to me here.

[Screened Gear]

You could try breaking areas down, because orders just vary too much. One 100 piece job with a one color print in 4 locations is nothing like 24 2 color prints on a light shirt in one location. So try one color prints; after it's set up, how many can he print in one hour? Don't have a job large enough for an hour, then time how long it takes to print say 24, let's say it's 15 minutes; then you know you/he could print 96 per hour. Then try the same thing with a 2 color print, and so on. Document the setup and breakdown separately, then add them together. To give you an idea of something to shoot for, everyone here (no rookies at all) can do at least 200 per hour, loading and unloading by themselves. Best of luck, you'll get it...

Steve

I am working on stuff like that. On the manual I can print 6 shirts in 3 mins. (1 color or 2 color it really doesn't add to much time. He started timing him self per load. A load is 6 shirts. That works for him to keep a good pace. How fast he prints is not that big a deal to me. I want him to want to get faster. I am really letting him learn and do things at his own pace. He is a good worker and really does get it. I want him to want it more than me pushing him in any way. I think in the long run he will be a better employee or manager that way. His numbers are already good enough. I want him to just have bench marks so he does not get discourage when the work here really starts coming in.

[Sbrem]

How fast he prints, and the quality to go with it of course, is pretty important. Think about a week's total cost; you need enough billing to cover that plus net profit to grow. Now your labor costs are for 40 hours, a typical work week. If he prints more orders in that time, you have more income for the same labor costs (however, your equipment is running more, so your electricity bill is going up). More income is good, right? You want to make more, he wants to make more, and that is kind of how you do it; get the most production out per week you can without raising your other costs (like no overtime at time and a half). Ben Franklin said "A penny saved is a penny earned." It's very true...

Steve

[alan802]

We're averaging right at 30 per week so far this year.  Average job is 3.8 color front, 3.2 color back, 70 pieces so far this year.  We've had a crap load of small quantity stuff this year.  Lots of 2 and 3 color jobs of 6-12 pieces.  We're charging enough to make it worth our while but it screws up the averages pretty bad. 

I've got 2 full-timers and myself. I'm spending around 20 hours per week in production.  I feel we are spread too thin and I need 3 full-timers out back to keep me from having to reclaim screens and mix inks and all the other stuff I end up doing to help out.  I coated 60 screens today and reclaimed 25, and it's not my job to do that stuff but I got a guy that I asked to take a few days off to see if he could find another job and/or figure out what he wants to do with the rest of his life. 

[DannyGruninger]

Was one of our busiest weeks ever this past week. Counting last friday - this friday we have done almost 55,000 impressions over 65 different PO's. Today was 1 job, 11,500 shirts. Got it done in 1 day with 2 autos


90% of the time it's me and 3 other guys in our shop...... Today I had some extra help boxing, staging, etc....... Most days I feel like we kick ass and we certainly have the last week but not all weeks are like this for us. Just in the last month we have had 5 orders each over 11,000 shirts each

[Screened Gear]

Was one of our busiest weeks ever this past week. Counting last friday - this friday we have done almost 55,000 impressions over 65 different PO's. Today was 1 job, 11,500 shirts. Got it done in 1 day with 2 autos


90% of the time it's me and 3 other guys in our shop...... Today I had some extra help boxing, staging, etc....... Most days I feel like we kick ass and we certainly have the last week but not all weeks are like this for us. Just in the last month we have had 5 orders each over 11,000 shirts each

Great numbers.

[mk162]

you know what matters more than job count?  profit.

I know my costs down to the minute(and the second if i want to divide it by 60.)  I know my daily costs for each department and those guys should make money for the day.  I had one guy that wasn't.  I had to sit him down and explain that while he worked the whole day printing, we lost $12.  It was an eye opener for him.

The thing is sometimes we print a job that will have us in the black before lunch, other days the printers move into embroidery to trim, sort, box and fix thread breaks.

[ol man]

Last years goal was 10 jobs a day ... this year looking for 12 -15  a day , obviously there are varibles that affect this... but typically if we hit those numbers( or close to) it means everyone was hustling and we were relatively efficient.   
Average sized jobs in a day will range from 36 pieces to 400.