Hello ladies and gents...
I left contracting over a year ago to enter a permanent job, as the contracting market in my sector was dying a slow, painful death.
I am classed as 'senior', whatever that may mean, pay 40% tax and earn £47k, and have recently been offered an on-call position within the business, which mainly deals with telecomms and networking for onshore business and oil companies.
They offer £500 standard for 7 days on-call; calls are expected to be responded to (preferably the customer called with brief explanation of why an outage exists) within about 30 minutes.
Having done two shifts of this as a trial, I feel the money is not enough. An 'hourly' rate is more administratively labourious, so I am going to initially ask for significantly more as a standard rate, eg: £900 or £1000 for the week, for example.
I earn double the salary of a junior, but we are currently both paid the £500 standard weekly rate; also not particularly fair.
I would appreciate if anybody has any advice, or has been in a similar situation, and can help with regards to 1) a modern appropriate sum of money to ask and 2) whether hourly payment in addition to the £500 payment is what I should ask for, or whether - in your experience - most companies just pay a flat one-off payment fee for being on-call.
It has gotten to the extent where I do not consider my current expenditure of time worth the £300 (after tax) that I am receiving.
Thank you in advance for any info or help
I left contracting over a year ago to enter a permanent job, as the contracting market in my sector was dying a slow, painful death.
I am classed as 'senior', whatever that may mean, pay 40% tax and earn £47k, and have recently been offered an on-call position within the business, which mainly deals with telecomms and networking for onshore business and oil companies.
They offer £500 standard for 7 days on-call; calls are expected to be responded to (preferably the customer called with brief explanation of why an outage exists) within about 30 minutes.
Having done two shifts of this as a trial, I feel the money is not enough. An 'hourly' rate is more administratively labourious, so I am going to initially ask for significantly more as a standard rate, eg: £900 or £1000 for the week, for example.
I earn double the salary of a junior, but we are currently both paid the £500 standard weekly rate; also not particularly fair.
I would appreciate if anybody has any advice, or has been in a similar situation, and can help with regards to 1) a modern appropriate sum of money to ask and 2) whether hourly payment in addition to the £500 payment is what I should ask for, or whether - in your experience - most companies just pay a flat one-off payment fee for being on-call.
It has gotten to the extent where I do not consider my current expenditure of time worth the £300 (after tax) that I am receiving.
Thank you in advance for any info or help
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