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Location: Up North | I am looking at hiring a young girl 14yrs. old to help me ride a few of my barrel horses. They are all broke well and loping or running through the pattern. I have an indoor arena. I would have her help me with a few after school and in the summer. I offered her a pen for 2 of her horses (she provides feed and I would feed for her), pick her up and drop her off at her home. What should be the additional wage? She is a very good rider and has great horsemanship.
Per horse? Per hour?
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Location: Deep South | I would pay her per hour. When I was loping for a cutting trainer I was getting $8/hr, no perks. I think this was kind of low honestly, (you can make more than that at McDonald's, but I was much more willing to ride horses all day than flip burgers) but just something for you to go off of. |
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Location: Texas | I would probably pay 10 per horse she rode. |
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| barrelbasher - 2014-02-18 7:12 AM
I would probably pay 10 per horse she rode.
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| also, just a quick thought, maybe you could barter hay or something for her rides...
when i was her age, I was getting paid to ride for another trainer, and for a dealer... Someone decided that they didn't think it was fair that i was riding in non-pro and amateur divisions... and turned me in. there was a big fuss made about it... although i was only riding to get these horses fit, they took it as "accepting money for training". so from then on, I was only allowed to ride in open divisions.
luckily for NBHA i was still a youth because that was solely on age... but it was very frustrating in other disciplines. |
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Location: College Station, TX | I made 5 a horse and that was with no extra perks, but was only on each horse for 15 to 20 minutes then on to the next. |
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| I agree. Set a rate, but turn the rate into hay and feed for her to prevent anyone questioning wages and her amatuer status. People are mean like that, especially if it's the parent of a kid she's beating someday. If there's extra money offer to take her to the tack shop for a shopping trip, I'd never turn that down, at 14 or 26! |
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| OhMax - 2014-02-18 10:22 AM
I agree. Set a rate, but turn the rate into hay and feed for her to prevent anyone questioning wages and her amatuer status. People are mean like that, especially if it's the parent of a kid she's beating someday. If there's extra money offer to take her to the tack shop for a shopping trip, I'd never turn that down, at 14 or 26!
I was heart broken when it happened to me...
I had a young girl riding for me for a little while, i paid her entry fees at shows, and she had a "free lease" on one of my horses. I hauled her to the shows, paid her entries, and hauled her home. No one ever questioned it... but i did tell her to tell people that she was paying for a lease if they asked. |
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Location: Up North | It's all good advise! Thank you very much!!! |
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Location: Deep South | PaintedPrincess - 2014-02-18 9:16 AM
also, just a quick thought, maybe you could barter hay or something for her rides...
when i was her age, I was getting paid to ride for another trainer, and for a dealer... Someone decided that they didn't think it was fair that i was riding in non-pro and amateur divisions... and turned me in. there was a big fuss made about it... although i was only riding to get these horses fit, they took it as "accepting money for training". so from then on, I was only allowed to ride in open divisions.
luckily for NBHA i was still a youth because that was solely on age... but it was very frustrating in other disciplines.
This is terrible that this happened to you. I really don't know how the person that turned you in had a leg to stand on in the association.
I worked for a BIG time cutting trainer. It was he and his wife, he had three full-time guys and two of us part time helping him ride horses. He obviously competed in the open. His wife did not. His full time workers did not, even though they had been with him for years, often competed on the same horses he did, traveled to all the same shows, were being PAID by him to ride for him.
They compete in major NCHA sanctioned shows, I don't understand how that is any different from your situation. |
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Location: The birthplace of Honest Abe | Im going to go with no more the 8 dollars an hour only because you offered her free self care board (you feeding her feed). I think that is a fair trade.
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Location: ohio-in my own little world with pretty ponies :) | I helped a trainer work horses in the summer and even hauled to fort smith with her to help get them warmed up and I ended up running a few for her in the youth, she paid entries and she hauled them. I got paid $10 a horse I got on and that was it. I learned a lot that summer and had a lot of other people asking me to ride for them when they heard who I was riding for....that was all I needed! |
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| I loped horses for my uncle who is a cutter when I was a kid. He paid me $10/horse but there were no other perks. If I were paying a kid AND boarding 2 horses for them I would likely pay $5/horse. |
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Location: Great NW | My daughter gets $10 per hour. No perks. I take her and pick her up - unless she can ride the school bus. She brushes, saddles, warms up, unsaddles, washes, and blankets. some days she helps to feed and grain. This is a very busy trainer and she does not dilly dally - or pick up her phone while she is working. |
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