You work 60 hours a week and you're still not sure what you actually made. Here's how Nolavi works through it, the same way a good mechanic works on a car: find the concern, the cause, the correction, then verify the fix.
Nate ran Nate's Auto Repair for eight years. Most months he paid everyone else first and took whatever was left. Some months that was $11,000. Some months it was $1,200.
Nolavi pulled his numbers and compared them to what his shop actually produced. His effective labor rate was $104 an hour against a posted rate of $145. Parts profit was 38% when it should have been 45%. About $1,250 a month went to ads that brought no customers. Those three leaks added up to more than his owner pay on slow months.
Nolavi set a weekly owner pay of $1,450, built into payroll, and a quarterly profit share when the shop beats its goal. It closed each leak one at a time from the What needs you list: the labor rate first, then parts, then the wasted ads. Nate approved each fix in one tap.
He's been paid every week for five months. His quarterly profit share in September was $6,800. Nolavi shows his owner pay and profit share every Monday alongside the shop's score.
How we work. We make changes like this for shops all the time, using each shop's own data. The numbers shown are examples.
Auto repair shop coaching from your own numbers. Nolavi sends a plain report every Monday with the moves worth making next. See how it works
It varies a lot. Shops doing $1M to $2M in sales often support an owner pay of $80,000 to $150,000 a year, but the actual number comes from your margin, not your revenue. Nolavi works it out from your real numbers.
Usually a few leaks: labor priced below cost on some jobs, parts margin too thin, or marketing that doesn't bring customers. Plug those and the same car count pays a lot more.
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