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How to ask recruiters to disclose what the employer can offer Rate wise?

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    #11
    Originally posted by northernladuk View Post

    You are so going to get screwed if an agent clocks on this is how much of a clue you've got. You are going to be looking at 25% plus of your rate if you don't buck up.

    NCOTBAC
    NLUK, you'd nailed it up until your last comment. Agencies don't take 25% of YOUR rate, pretty sure that was your whole point.

    With that mentality then if my end client makes a profit above and beyond what I'm making from them then they're taking a percentage of my cut..

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      #12
      Originally posted by Agent View Post
      NLUK, you'd nailed it up until your last comment. Agencies don't take 25% of YOUR rate, pretty sure that was your whole point.

      With that mentality then if my end client makes a profit above and beyond what I'm making from them then they're taking a percentage of my cut..
      I was trying to keep it simple and not get embroiled in the actual symentics of it actually being the agents money so probably does look confusing to those in the know but yes, didn't word that one too well. Fair point.
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        #13
        Originally posted by Agent View Post
        NLUK, you'd nailed it up until your last comment. Agencies don't take 25% of YOUR rate, pretty sure that was your whole point.

        With that mentality then if my end client makes a profit above and beyond what I'm making from them then they're taking a percentage of my cut..
        Depends on whether they operate open-book or not (almost none in the UK does). If it is open book, then the rate you ask for is the one forwarded to the client and they take a percentage of that. On the other hand you also get to see their contract with the client as your own contract will be very short and mostly state that "the contractor has the same liabilities to the agency as the agency has to the client as per the attached contract with the client".

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          #14
          Originally posted by northernladuk View Post
          I was trying to keep it simple and not get embroiled in the actual symentics of it actually being the agents money so probably does look confusing to those in the know but yes, didn't word that one too well. Fair point.
          semantics

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            #15
            Originally posted by SlipTheJab View Post
            semantics
            Peydantics
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              #16
              Originally posted by northernladuk View Post
              Peydantics

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