how much would you want for a days work

[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by Stewart.C

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]

Originally Posted by Dave20046

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]

Originally Posted by Wideboy

+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
But yeah, glad some people get off their arses for 'poxy' wages.

Originally Posted by Dave20046

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

Different league

Originally Posted by Dave20046

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

Originally Posted by Rich

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.

Originally Posted by gid

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 .

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 .
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]

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!

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.

Originally Posted by gid

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.