Your Best Rate And Year

[SussexSeagull]

Peaked in 2012. As did the country, some might argue.

[PerfectStorm]

2019-20. Rates and non-arsey clients.

[Old Greg]

Best rate - 2015/16
Most days billed - 2020 most likely
Most money billed - 2020 most likely

[Lance]

best rate was £1200 a day in 1999. But I was a perm so didn't see much of that.
That was the peak. Dotcom boom combined with Y2K. And no WiPro/Tata/TM.

[WTFH]

My highest rate wasn't my best rate.
The most number of days billed in a year is never a good year.
If I work more than 220 days a year, I'm not doing enough living.

Highest rate would be about 4 years ago when a client paid £18,000 for me to have a meeting for an hour and a half.
Next highest was about 18 years ago, a meeting that ended up taking 5 minutes cost them £750.

Best rate is the one where I am happiest with the £, the location, the stress & effort.
I'd rather have £800 a day working from home than £1000 a day travelling in to London.

[billybiro]

Some nostalgia perhaps but I do wonder what peoples highest rates were and the number of days they were working for was and the industry

For me it was 2017 - 840 a day / 230 days a year / Finance london

Those were the days - Nowadays 650 is the top and most likely 500 and its bleak

Cry me a river.

[NotAllThere]

Jan 1 2000. £600/hour.

Feb 1 2000. £6.00/hour.

I did rather well in 2010 with a deal of half my normal rate to develop a product plus 15% of gross sales income for five years. You gotta love passive income!

[Old Greg]

Feb 1 2000. £6.00/hour.

I did rather well in 2010 with a deal of half my normal rate to develop a product plus 15% of gross sales income for five years. You gotta love passive income!

You'd be crapping yourself that suity would sell it into critical national infrastructure.

[LondonManc]

I was at college, earning minimum wage of £3 an hour, working in a restaurant.

That's terrible. I was on £2.35/hour in my part time job in 1991!

[GhostofTarbera]

That's terrible. I was on £2.35/hour in my part time job in 1991!

My 1st ever pay packet was £35K a year in 1991 as a trainee programmer in hove aged 21 out of college the IT manager picked me because I knew what manic minor was

My job at college was playing poker


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