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Highest day rate you have ever seen for your skillset.
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Originally posted by NowPermOutsideUK View Post
As a project manager in finance working five days in the office 8AM -> 6PM perm salaries are 120K with a 3% pension contribution. Bonus is +5%. A comparable contractor amount is 700 per day
Those are my numbers - Kind enough to share yours ?Comment
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Highest advertised for my (now mostly dead) skillset was £750/day. When I got the offer it was at £650/day due to the usual agency shenanigans. Now this was in 2004 so was a lot of money to me even coming off a £70k permie job.
Highest I ever charged was on a contract I won at £650/day and worked up to £1k/day.
Now I'm a poor permie on £85k but thinking of going back contracting as a general solutions/integration analyst. £500/day will be fine for me now.
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Someone on 900 a day (outside) at one of the large Banks - BA with SME knowledge of reg
Most of the other BAs on 550 ishComment
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Originally posted by northernladuk View Post
Just post which is the highest regardless of situation so they can jack off to it.
Professional forum, stop arguing with people and bullying them. We're adults, we don't need a vigilante mod-wannabe.Originally posted by MaryPoppinsI'd still not breastfeed a naziOriginally posted by vetranUrine is quite nourishingComment
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I work offshore O&G - best i have seen for my role was £950/day (UK equiv as it was in USD) - currently its more like £800 outside UK and £700/day inside UK waters (outside IR35 is getting harder to find but transport, food and accommodation is always provided when "at sea").Comment
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I'm a SQL Consultant. Just leaving permiedom where we were paying a UK agency circa £1k/day and a polish consultancy £500/day although no idea what the actual contractors were getting out of that.
Current contract comes out just over £900/day direct with a US client which is pretty good for a SQL bod I think.Comment
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Originally posted by Burns View PostCurrent contract comes out just over £900/day direct with a US client which is pretty good for a SQL bod I think.
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Originally posted by jamesbrown View Post
In general, US rates are much higher than UK rates (quite apart from GBP being relatively weak, which makes them even higher in GBP).Comment
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Originally posted by Burns View Post
Yeah, agreed. It wasn't an accident that I looked for a US gig.Comment
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