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I have been self employed for the last 22 years and usually get paid a good fee per day.
Because I work in construction the trade is dead at the mo.
I have been offered £90 a day plus fuel for the next 6 months(I can still do my own work if it comes in)
Ok its not a fortune to some people ,but how much would you take to keep busy?
Jamiebridges123
13-05-09, 08:14 PM
Considering £90 a day works out at like £22k a year that's pretty good..
Personally at my age I'd happily take £55 or so....
davepreston
13-05-09, 08:16 PM
£90 quid a day and a crack on if you get somethin else sounds like a minter to me
i would kill for 90 a day
£90 a day lucky you i'm at the £50 mark and at 32 cut hour's making feck all take what you can get not much going out there at the minute.
BanditPat
13-05-09, 08:21 PM
I get paid about £16 a day. Would like more i suppose 50+ a day would be ideal
its just a bit of a come down as I normally get double.Not trying to rub it in ,but for yrs people have been happy to pay it.
I turned up to fix some marble in a bathroom and the walls were not even built,so just got my gear out and built the wall myself.
The main contractor was so happy he offered me the contract that night.
One problem though.......I took it from his step son who spends his day dossing
If it's money in the bank and you can still do your own work I'd take it!
its just a bit of a come down as I normally get double.Not trying to rub it in ,but for yrs people have been happy to pay it.
I turned up to fix some marble in a bathroom and the walls were not even built,so just got my gear out and built the wall myself.
The main contractor was so happy he offered me the contract that night.
One problem though.......I took it from his step son who spends his day dossing
shouldnt have been a lazy bugger then don't worry about it :)
ThEGr33k
13-05-09, 08:26 PM
Sounds good to me considering the trade and the situation!
If it means you can pay the bills and there's nothing else atm, I'd go for it.
I've had to take a job with a £10k/year pay drop. It solved an immediate problem.
I get £38.16 a day... would much prefer £55 + considering the place i work has to pick up other peoples ****e mistakes!
the daft thing is ,after 2 weeks my wife has noticed how ,Im so much more chilled out ,without the stress of working to time plans to earn good £
dizzyblonde
13-05-09, 08:38 PM
90 quid a day..oh how I wish!
Thats more than I'm on...and i work nightshifts, unsociable hours are supposed to be paid better :-(
the daft thing is ,after 2 weeks my wife has noticed how ,Im so much more chilled out ,without the stress of working to time plans to earn good £
Well there's your answer....stick with it.
More to life than money. Less stress always good!:salut:
BigFootIsBlurry
13-05-09, 08:41 PM
If its 90 after tax thats not so bad, if its before tax less so.
If its cash in hand all the better.
unsociable hours are supposed to be paid better :-(
I know what you mean!
I know what you mean!
8 -4 with an hour for lunch.
Although I normally only take 30 mins
slark01
13-05-09, 08:44 PM
Someone has been swearing!
Whats work?
Would easily take that.
Never been on more than £5 per hour.
But its different for you, presuming you have house + debt + kids + wife ect.
8 -4 with an hour for lunch.
Although I normally only take 30 mins
I work 7-3's and 3-11's
the 7-3's im up at 5.15 to walk to work as i have no bus to get there :/
on my lates by the time im home i get 4 hours sleep and im up again....sucks!
and i have no lunchbreak..i eat food and carry on with my work :(
dizzyblonde
13-05-09, 08:51 PM
Never been on more than £5 per hour.
But its different for you, presuming you have house + debt + kids + wife ect.
Do you know, I really can't understand how the minimum wage works. I'm presuming your in the under 21 bracket. As I see it, someone who is 18 can possibly be as skilled/experienced, if not more so, as a person over that age. Plus someone who is under 21 can just as much have a house to pay for, debt, kids, wife etc
I think everyone should have the full minimum wage over 18.
I have been self employed for the last 22 years and usually get paid a good fee per day.
Because I work in construction the trade is dead at the mo.
I have been offered £90 a day plus fuel for the next 6 months(I can still do my own work if it comes in)
Ok its not a fortune to some people ,but how much would you take to keep busy?
£450 a week.
i would jump at it
Do you know, I really can't understand how the minimum wage works. I'm presuming your in the under 21 bracket. As I see it, someone who is 18 can possibly be as skilled/experienced, if not more so, as a person over that age. Plus someone who is under 21 can just as much have a house to pay for, debt, kids, wife etc
I think everyone should have the full minimum wage over 18.
I agree with you there, i do the exactly the same amount of work, sometimes more as the other people who do reception work too - yet there on more than me...it isnt fair..
because I have been self employed for over 20 yrs ,I know that time is ££££££££
and you just have to get on with it.
looks like Ive dropped in lucky at the mo then
fizzwheel
13-05-09, 09:02 PM
If I could cover my mortgage payments and my loan and then afford to put food on the table and cloth myself for £90 a day then I'd take it.
My first job paid £60 a week and I was as happy then as I am now... money isnt the be all and end all...
Bluefish
13-05-09, 09:05 PM
If I could cover my mortgage payments and my loan and then afford to put food on the table and cloth myself for £90 a day then I'd take it.
My first job paid £60 a week and I was as happy then as I am now... money isnt the be all and end all...
only when you havn't got any.
£90/day is always better than £0/day :D
If I could cover my mortgage payments and my loan and then afford to put food on the table and cloth myself for £90 a day then I'd take it.
My first job paid £60 a week and I was as happy then as I am now... money isnt the be all and end all...
Pfft... When I did a brief stint of contracting I was on £250/day... It might not be the be all and end all but it sure makes more stuff possible. :lol:
;)
Do you know, I really can't understand how the minimum wage works. I'm presuming your in the under 21 bracket. As I see it, someone who is 18 can possibly be as skilled/experienced, if not more so, as a person over that age. Plus someone who is under 21 can just as much have a house to pay for, debt, kids, wife etc
I think everyone should have the full minimum wage over 18.
Between 16-18 is around £4.35 p/h.
18-21 is 4.75 p/h.
Thats what I got when working at McDonalds.
And some of the shifts were terrible.
Minimum of a 8 hour shift.
0515 after a 15mile commute, which meant getting up around 4-430AM, and the wage doesn't change.
The shift was 0530 to 1500.
9 and a half hour shift, with £4.35 per hour, and a maximum of 45 minute break the whole day, and the break can't be split up.
gruntygiggles
13-05-09, 09:09 PM
+1 to Fizz
Honestly Gid, as you are able to still do your own work when it comes in, the job security, even over a short term could prove incredibly valuable with things the way they are.
I'd take it....you can always leave if you want to, but you might not be able to secure it again in the future if things get worse on a self employed basis!
Seems like a bit of a no brainer, but you know what you can and can't live on, so time to get a budget on paper to work it all out!
Good luck mate and love to the little ones x
dirtydog
13-05-09, 09:42 PM
I have been self employed for the last 22 years and usually get paid a good fee per day.
Because I work in construction the trade is dead at the mo.
I have been offered £90 a day plus fuel for the next 6 months(I can still do my own work if it comes in)
Ok its not a fortune to some people ,but how much would you take to keep busy?
I take that as a daily rate frequently, it's all gone a bit quiet for me at the mo as well. But the bloke who pays me for the day and has no prblem with me fitting my own work in around what he has for me. When I do have busy periods my daily rate will near enough double that but it's always handy to have a bit of a back up for when it is quiet.
If it's money in the bank and you can still do your own work I'd take it!
Exactly
Honestly Gid, as you are able to still do your own work when it comes in, the job security, even over a short term could prove incredibly valuable with things the way they are.
I'd take it....you can always leave if you want to, but you might not be able to secure it again in the future if things get worse on a self employed basis!
Seems like a bit of a no brainer, but you know what you can and can't live on, so time to get a budget on paper to work it all out!
I agree with this
As Fizz said, money isn't the be all & end all.
I hold a regular job, and I'm not interested in career progression. I have little stress here, and I leave work at the desk when I go home. For that, I get somewhere around £50/day. I've not sat & worked that out, it's purely a guesstimation.
In the past, I've also done work where the clients have been perfectly happy to pay £1000/day, and only today quoted someone on here a max of £300/day for some work.
The trouble is, the higher paid work is sparadic, so I do the day job to make sure the kids have a roof & food on the table.
markmoto
13-05-09, 11:30 PM
in my opinion its not a case of who earns what its what your personal situation needs, i dont value money highly as im not a materialistic person my income can go up and down depending on how much work i get/want to do but its more than enough for me and if i never have to be a wage slave again il be a happy man. If its good for you then go for it.
In the curreent construction climate.....a 6 month contract is worth taking if you can cover your costs.
Jesus, i'm a full time carer for a disabled lady, expected to do 35 hours/week & for that I get £1/hour - gorra love our governmental systems.
kwak zzr
14-05-09, 07:22 AM
i think £100 a day is a good figure.
454697819
14-05-09, 07:23 AM
thats still a little low for trade work, but people will push at the moment, we have had plasterers in for £80 per day inc travel.
kwak zzr
14-05-09, 07:28 AM
cuz used to charge in the region of 100 - 150 per day for plastering but he said he cant charge those figures anymore :(
timwilky
14-05-09, 08:06 AM
depends who the client is. I charge my private ones up to £700/day. and others £200.
The big payers I know are a one off and are reluctantly buying me. the others are regular clients, happy to use me.
My boss tarts me out at £375 internally. Cheap I tell you. wish I got that in my monthly insult. That way I would not have to do private work
Stewart.C
14-05-09, 08:44 AM
i wouldnt get out of my bed for less than £100 after tax.
I would be happy with that, im on 62.50, but i work about 10-12 hours a day.
i wouldnt get out of my bed for less than £100 after tax.
I used to say that ,but £450 a week stops your savings going down the pan
I'm not sure i would be happy with that being self employed, i'd push for over £100 atleast. I'm on just under that without any of the hassle of being self employed and thats not including overtime, on call ect... But like said it's money in the bank and you can do other work, thats another thought though are you going to have enough time to do other work to make up the pennies???
Dave20046
14-05-09, 07:21 PM
I've once invoiced just over £800 for a days work.
Wasn't a good feeling when I handed it all over to my employer!
Damn salaries
I've once invoiced just over £800 for a days work.
Wasn't a good feeling when I handed it all over to my employer!
Damn salaries
I know the feeling :(
Being in the building at a time like this you'd be daft not to. 6 months of work is 6 months you're not on the dole, even if it is at a much lower rate than you're used to. I wish there was 6 months more work for me!
Dave20046
14-05-09, 07:24 PM
I know
Atleast I get commission on it these days though.
softens the blow slightly...
I'd much rather have a job I enjoyed than loads of cash.
At the moment I have neither...
Wideboy
14-05-09, 07:55 PM
how much would you want for a days work
a bag of sheep shearings, a packet of crisps and a bucket of milk........ NO LESS!!!! :smt018
Dave20046
14-05-09, 08:51 PM
i wouldnt get out of my bed for less than £100 after tax.
What's that about £35k pa? (gross)
Considering coppers, nurses, teachers etc. get out of bed for a fair bit less than that (generally) hats off to them!
Wideboy
14-05-09, 08:55 PM
What's that about £35k pa? (gross)
Considering coppers, nurses, teachers etc. get out of bed for a fair bit less than that (generally) hats off to them!
+1 having been fecked in hospital (think dave123... would agree) nurses are worth the weight in gold
Dave20046
14-05-09, 09:00 PM
+1 having been fecked in hospital (think dave123... would agree) nurses are worth the weight in gold
God they're amazing....although they did keep insisting on taking my blood pressure while I was asleep but then when they stuck the thermometer in my ear I'd awake yelling and then the nurse would jump and then the whole ward would awake. this process was repeated nightly, sometimes more than once. oops :oops:
But yeah, glad some people get off their arses for 'poxy' wages.
Stewart.C
15-05-09, 12:21 PM
What's that about £35k pa? (gross)
Considering coppers, nurses, teachers etc. get out of bed for a fair bit less than that (generally) hats off to them!
I work with ROV's so i suppose im in a diferant leugue.
not bad pay for outside aberdeenshire
Stewart.C
15-05-09, 12:22 PM
Different league
-Ralph-
15-05-09, 03:16 PM
I've once invoiced just over £800 for a days work.
Wasn't a good feeling when I handed it all over to my employer!
Damn salaries
I know the feeling :(
Me too, 800-1000 per day depending upon client. If I saw 20% of it I'd be doing very well. Given up the fee earning consultancy and gone into sales on a targeted bonus, at least now when I achieve something I see some reward and feel a bit better, and I don't having anyone breathing down my neck, and I don't have to stand in freezing noisy datacenters clicking Next, Next, Next, Finish.
Specialone
15-05-09, 03:29 PM
I have been self employed for the last 22 years and usually get paid a good fee per day.
Because I work in construction the trade is dead at the mo.
I have been offered £90 a day plus fuel for the next 6 months(I can still do my own work if it comes in)
Ok its not a fortune to some people ,but how much would you take to keep busy?
Im a self employed builder and i cost my jobs on me earning around £100 a day after tax but sometimes you get profit as well as wages :D.
But with my work up and down like a fiddlers elbow albeit its not been as bad as some.
6 months work with £450 a week constant, i'd probably take it.
Keeps me in motorcyle gear :cool:.
I have just had a call though about an extension so maybe better things on the horizon.
I found on extensions at the moment everyone is getting cheaper just working for wages, tough to compete on price.
Blow me, just had another call about a bathroom refit while sat at my pc on the org.
Hardly any calls all week and 2 inside 20 mins.
tinpants
15-05-09, 03:36 PM
I'm self employed / running my own landscaping business and I would say that in the current financial climate 90 quid a day plus travelling is a decent rate. I'm paying my oppo and myself £80 a day each. Thats what the job was priced at (by me) so thats what I pay. Any profit I make comes from adding a bit here and there on the materials.
Anyone who says they "wouldn't get out of bed" for less than a ton a day is, quite frankly, talking from within their fundamental orifice. These days the construction industry, especially in this area (South West) just won't stand those sort of prices. This time 2 years ago I was charging £160 per person per day, plus materials. Since then, however, the market has gone into freefall taking the rates with it.
Go for it Gid. £90 a day is good money. If someone offered me that sort of money along with a guaranteed 6 month contract, I'd rip their hand off!
thefallenangel
15-05-09, 08:10 PM
Yep. I'm an electrical apprentice now and get £8.50 for 37 hours a week Mon-Fri. Bank hols off, 25 days a year leave, coshy job. Once i come out my time and looks like i'll be taken on then hopefully i'll go onto £30k a year. Although that includes 16 weekends and 8/9 weeks on call it works in at about 13 weeks a year off with Annualised hours at 8.5 hours a day which comes in at around the £100 a day, company van, tools, shares, pension so i'm bloody happy with it especially with the contracting market in bits and with 13 weeks a year off i can arrange hobbles on the side for extra pennies.
Mike2165
15-05-09, 08:41 PM
I used to say that ,but £450 a week stops your savings going down the pan
+1. Self employed too, if I was guarenteed 6 months I'd take it rather than have nothing.
shonadoll
15-05-09, 09:19 PM
+1. Self employed too, if I was guarenteed 6 months I'd take it rather than have nothing.
Yeah, I agree, it's a funny attitude to have over basically a tenner a day difference
I work with ROV's so i suppose im in a diferant leugue.
not bad pay for outside aberdeenshire
Good lord - spent thick end of 20 years working for Sub Sea as a senior ops controller mainly on Trojans till they humped a load of us with redundancy.
wohoooo
been told today that the builder is moving to a new job/site and Im to be in charge.:p:p:p:p:p:p
With an increase of £60 aday
I've once invoiced just over £800 for a days work.
Wasn't a good feeling when I handed it all over to my employer!
Damn salaries
I know that feeling also, you earn your employer ALOT of money but they still dont appreciate it.
I have visited 5 sites in a day for the employer I will be resigning from on tuesday, its a 14 hour day for me doing 450 miles..... and at a cost of £750 per visit.....so thats £3750 for one days work (I spend half the next day writing the 5 reports but still a rediculous sum of money to invoice for a day and a half).
garrystr
22-05-09, 09:27 PM
Was doing a little bit of resourcing last year trying to get specialist engineers in ranging in price from £50 / hour to £200 / hr, I personally wouldn't get out of bed for that :scratch:
:D
Quiff Wichard
22-05-09, 11:56 PM
My brother is on over £170 an hour !!..
he's a solicitor-
now, wheres Ed ??
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