Can an agency find out what rate you were on previously?

[speling bee]

No, thank you, that is all for now

What about the areas where your websites are not legally compliant?

[Taita]

Is it legal to give a price on a web page and not make it clear that it's excluding VAT? These are difficult questions.

Difficult questions, indeed, but the neat trick is to compare 'margin' to 'mark-up'!

[NickNick]

By education check I mean University result check (or equivalent) and any professional qualifications check.

Our clients know what the daily rate is for the contractor, we openly tell them. Like we tell the contractors the rate we charge the client.

Education is always a laugh when checked for me.
So, it appears tha you really did get a rather poor degree in mining gegolgy 30 years ago. Glad we checked...

[perplexed]

Education is always a laugh when checked for me.
So, it appears tha you really did get a rather poor degree in mining gegolgy 30 years ago. Glad we checked...

One of the better IT contractors I've worked with had a music degree. Granted a check goes towards character, ie if prepared to lie about that....

Regardless, I've used precisely 5% or so of what I was taught at Uni in my career. Every piece of open source software etc I've learnt off my own back...

[Hireonomy]

Difficult questions, indeed, but the neat trick is to compare 'margin' to 'mark-up'!

Who is comparing?

We're stating that we apply a Mark-up rather than Margin... which is much more transparent and easier to calculate; I'm sure you'll agree.

[Hireonomy]

That's all that matters, really.

FWIW, I can't see it, can't ping it, and mxtoolboox says "Lookup failed after 2 name servers timed out or responded non-authoritatively" when I try to do a DNS lookup.

Turns out there was a DNS issue with the hosts and all their sites and email servers were affected.

All resolved now

[speling bee]

Who is comparing?

We're stating that we apply a Mark-up rather than Margin... which is much more transparent and easier to calculate im sure you'll agree.

How much does the agency take on a 7% margin of £1,000 pd inclusive of margin (i.e. cost to client)?
How much does the agency take on a 7% mark-up of £1,000 pd inclusive of mark-up (i.e. cost to client)?

[Hireonomy]

How much does the agency take on a 7% margin of £1,000 pd inclusive of margin (i.e. cost to client)?
How much does the agency take on a 7% mark-up of £1,000 pd inclusive of mark-up (i.e. cost to client)?

£1075.27 - margin
£1070.00 - mark up

[speling bee]

£1075.27 - margin
£1070.00 - mark up

Oh dear.

[Hireonomy]

Oh dear.

Not quite sure what you're getting at.

Throughout this site, you and others have been berating Agencies for charging the earth - which I would assume is far in excess of 7% margin.

If I looked at a conservative charge of 12% Margin on £1000 per day contractor the charge to the Client would be £1136.36... meaning a saving of £66.36 per day / £331.82 per week or £15927.36 per year (based on a 48 week year).

Are you saying that a Client would not want to save C£16K per year per contractor if the option was there?