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Pavement maintenance contractors regularly assume that employees are only motivated by money. While I personally don't believe that this is true, I do respect those business owners who feel inclined that it's the amount of the paycheck that most drives a worker.

So, in order to clarify just why workers do work for money, let's address three considerations before I share another alternative pay method.

Consideration #1

Consider first that people would not be working for you if they were not paid. Now, this sounds a bit silly to even reflect on, but you must reason that if people will not work for free then what you pay them matters much.

Consideration #2

The second consideration should be as clear as the first: People will work for whomever pays them the most money for doing the same type of work. It should come as no surprise, then, to any contractor that his employees, even the most "loyal" employees, will leave the company to work for another contractor if the right financial figure is offered.

As ridiculous as I feel even writing the previous paragraph I am still amazed when I hear a contractor complaining about his workers leaving their employment because another contractor offered them more money.