I've mostly wandered around between 380 and 650 over the years with a couple of exceptions: once on £1200 a day on one short gig and another of £1150 over two parallel ones, plus one or two non day-rate gigs (since retiring... go figure!) where the effective rate was around £1k-ish per day
I have been charged out on occasion, between £1300 and £3000 a day though... Where did I go wrong...
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Your Best Rate And Year
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
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