Hourly vs daily rate for contract

[thunderlizard]

Contractors don't work overtime, permies do that. You are business supplying a service to your client.

No he's not. He's an employee and/or director of a business that supplies a service to its clients. In that capacity, he's just as liable to work overtime as anybody else with a job.

[northernladuk]

No he's not. He's an employee and/or director of a business that supplies a service to its clients. In that capacity, he's just as liable to work overtime as anybody else with a job.

Ok your point is valid but it isn't 'overtime' it would be 'extra time'. Pedantry about the terminology I guess but I think it is important to use the correct term if you are going to differentiate yourself as a company from a permie. To a permie it is over and above his contracted hours, to me it's extra billable work.