What flexible model of payment with employees do you know?

Question

Personnel Management

Hi all!
I lead a small IT company with a co-owner.
Only two co-owners + 2 employees who perform part of the work in the company, part (maybe even more) I do on my own.
We faced the question of how to pay salaries to employees.
The main things that the new calculation model should contain are:
- variable salary (i.e. dependent on projects)
- the ability to earn more if you put in more effort or deliver the project ahead of schedule
- no access to the cost of the project, and the total turnover of the company (i.e. .if there is a percentage of the project, they can easily find out the total cost)
Please share whether the calculation model with employees with the above characteristics has the right to life? And does it exist in principle?
Based on the results of the decision, I will subsequently write an article on Habr.

Answer 1

Colleagues speak correctly - but do not affect the bonus part to the extent that the author wants, if I understand correctly.
Take the American model:
1) hourly payment (or monthly, taking into account the standard month + double payment for hourly overtime as needed by the company)
2) bonus for completing the project on time (not ahead of schedule but exactly on time) - here you can simply categorize: a project for 1 a day - $20, a project for 2-5 days - $100, a project up to a month - $
400 - This bonus is doubled. But this is a slippery moment - who, in this case, is estimating the project? And won't the quality from such a gallop tremble?
In this case, in place of you (management), I would only mark piece projects as burning and for a burning project just a double tariff.
Thus, according to points 1 and 2, they have a stable salary salary + $ 400 if they are not stupid. And if they are stupid for 2 months in a row, you can be fired :)
If you correctly beat point 3, then sometimes they can get even more if they are great.
The numbers can certainly be changed - but here the balance and proportion are preserved so that there is no desire to choose only small projects, for example.

Answer 2

Hourly payment.
Regarding “the opportunity to earn more if you put in more effort or turn in the project ahead of schedule”:
The project (task) is estimated at 100 hours. An employee completes it for 80, and receives payment for 100. Thus, not 140/160 hours can be closed per month, but 200 or more. As a result, wages are higher

Answer 3

Maybe pay by the hour? So all your requirements will be fulfilled.

Answer 4

The specifics are very influential ... but if you make an abstractly spherical horse in a vacuum, then standard hours (how much time it takes to rough the workpiece on a lathe), output (how many workpieces per hour a particular performer made), the number of specialists (how stable are his work results and the quality of workpieces ) etc.

Answer 5

I just pay everyone by the hour and don't worry.