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I'm Dave Ramsey, your host with over 30 years of experience leading in the trenches,

just like you guys. Matter of fact, I was there today.

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voicemail at 844-944-1070 that's 844-944-1070 Mike is in Las Vegas hey Mike welcome to the

Ramsey show hi Dave how you doing Better than I deserve. What's up?

I appreciate it. My name is Mike. I own and operate a landscape maintenance company in

2023. We did $2.3 million. In 2024, we also did $2.3 million.

I should mention that I live remotely away from my company, and one of my employees is do up.

She's an office manager, and she's due up for a pay raise. And she's asking a pretty steep amount of money

at about just a little under $100,000 a year plus another $10,000 benefits. And I would like to know your

opinion on someone that makes that type of salary in an office manager role, what would your expectations be for that person?

It sounds like she's running the business for you.

She runs the administrative office side. I am remote and I am involved daily with decision making and stuff like that.

And we have another gentleman who is involved with, he gets the work done.

He's the production manager and in charge of producing the work and managing the guys and things like that.

She handles the sales and marketing, well, less marketing, but sales and administrative.

Okay.

Well, the baseline for a comp plan is not what you want.

The baseline is what can I be replaced for?

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