I’m curious what the general consensus is on how you pay trainers. Do you pay them as employees or contractors? Are they hourly employees and then if they don’t have clients how do you deal with that? Are they responsible for filling their own schedules? The way my gym currently does it is we are scheduled by the owner and we are paid per client. We can take two in an hour so every 30 minutes. If we happen to not have anyone scheduled for a half hour session or maybe multiple half hour sessions each day we don’t receive any compensation. Is that how most gems run?

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