So what is a "good" rate?

[BrilloPad]

100 times more than the rate my butler gets.

[oliverson]

100 times more than the rate my butler gets.

£ 650+

[SueEllen]

£ 650+

Butlers are highly paid nowadays.

[BlasterBates]

Good grief, even in the late 1990's I would have described a good rate as being above 400 a day. How times haven't moved on. This is like saying anything above 30K is a great salary.

[vwdan]

Good grief, even in the late 1990's I would have described a good rate as being above 400 a day. How times haven't moved on. This is like saying anything above 30K is a great salary.

Firstly, the key word is "good", not great.

Secondly, even after a good amount of expenses, £400p/d is putting you in the top 2% of earners in the country. £30k, on the other hand, is only just above the average salary.

[MrMarkyMark]

Good grief, even in the late 1990's I would have described a good rate as being above 400 a day. How times haven't moved on. This is like saying anything above 30K is a great salary.

Times change.

Java when it was the big thing in the 90's, I knew a guy on 2.5K per day.
That wasn't unusual.

[uk contractor]

This is like saying anything above 30K is a great salary.

Funnily enough 30K is now the base salary for many support & back office roles in the city so FS sector seems to think its a great salary. I remember the good old days when they used to have to offer £50-60K + a hefty bonus to fill these roles (you needed all of that as well to pay the daily lunchtime bar bill alone!!).

[ladymuck]

A good rate is one that pays the bills and allows you to build a decent warchest. A great rate does that in a shorter amount of time.

[MrMarkyMark]

A good rate is one that pays the bills and allows you to build a decent warchest. A great rate does that in a shorter amount of time.

It does, as long as it lasts

[kaiser78]

Better than your last rate.

+1 from me.