Two crews can charge the same monthly rate for a yard and leave behind completely different properties three years later. Here is where the difference is made.
Hourly pay rewards presence, salary rewards availability, and paying by the job rewards speed. Owners writing rules to correct behavior are usually correcting their own incentive.
Licensing quietly settles who can treat you, who pays, and where a complaint goes. Here is how to tell the license from the certificate before the first appointment.
Most small operations know the total for the year and nothing about which work produced it. The difference between those two facts is usually an entire category of job.