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    #11
    Peaked in 2012. As did the country, some might argue.

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      #12
      2019-20. Rates and non-arsey clients.
      ⭐️ Gold Star Contractor

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        #13
        Best rate - 2015/16
        Most days billed - 2020 most likely
        Most money billed - 2020 most likely

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          #14
          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.
          See You Next Tuesday

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            #15
            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.
            …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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              #16
              Originally posted by LondonPM1 View Post
              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.

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                #17
                Originally posted by LondonManc View Post
                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!
                Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
                  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.

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by BlueSharp View Post
                    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!
                    The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by LondonManc View Post
                      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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