Job of the Day

[kal]

True. It doesn't mean this contract rate isn't stupid, but you have to laugh at people here who genuinely seem to believe living off £100/day isn't possible.

£100 a day?, that just about covers my lunch of lobster with a bottle of bollinger to wash it down with, what I am supposed to live on for the rest of the day

[northernladuk]

No, just people on here have wildly inaccurate views about the average earnings of average people. Most people, especially those without a professional trade, would consider anything £30k+ to be a good salary. £40k+ is just a dream to the majority of the population.

Absolutely. To get in the top 10% of earners you need to be on £44k a year. That percentage goes down if you start adjusting out the super earners and bringing in self employed etc that skew the number.

[northernladuk]

Oddly enough this contract could have paid somewhere around the Duke of Cambridge's £40k a year wage for being an air ambulance pilot. I didn't have a clue what they paid pilots but thought it was more than this.

[d000hg]

£100 a day?, that just about covers my lunch of lobster with a bottle of bollinger to wash it down with, what I am supposed to live on for the rest of the day

Maybe a half-bot would be better.

[SpontaneousOrder]

Oddly enough this contract could have paid somewhere around the Duke of Cambridge's £40k a year wage for being an air ambulance pilot. I didn't have a clue what they paid pilots but thought it was more than this.

As far as I'm aware your average budget airline pilot with a few years experience is on 35k or thereabouts. It's a desirable job, so competition keeps the wage low.

The Senior pilots at places like BA etc can earn well over 100k.

[Old Greg]

Absolutely. To get in the top 10% of earners you need to be on £44k a year. That percentage goes down if you start adjusting out the super earners and bringing in self employed etc that skew the number.

So £200 / day outside IR35 puts you in the top 10% (more or less).

[vwdan]

So £200 / day outside IR35 puts you in the top 10% (more or less).

And would be like winning the lottery for someone who is on some crap 0 hour minimum wage contract!

[vetran]

So £200 / day outside IR35 puts you in the top 10% (more or less).

Of wages it nudges into top 20% for 7.5 hr day.

Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, 2013 Provisional Results - ONS

At the other end of the distribution, 10% of full-time employees earned more than £27.02 per hour, which was also an increase of 1.5% compared with the previous year.

but household earnings show a slightly different story.

UK incomes: how does your salary compare? | Money | theguardian.com


wage or divis etc.

[kal]

And would be like winning the lottery for someone who is on some crap 0 hour minimum wage contract!

That's all very well but not anyone who sat at home watching Jeremy Kyle can apply for a role like this, looks like they want an experienced agile team lead working in financials for 190 notes a day. Client is probably paying £250 so the agent is taking a 30% cut (total conjecture on my part but not beyond the realms of feasibility IMO).

[vwdan]

That's all very well but not anyone who sat at home watching Jeremy Kyle can apply for a role like this, looks like they want an experienced agile team lead working in financials for 190 notes a day. Client is probably paying £250 so the agent is taking a 30% cut (total conjecture on my part but not beyond the realms of feasibility IMO).

Looks to me like the very first step on the "middle management" ladder - probably about £25k's worth in permie land. I made the switch to contracting and decided it would be worth the risk and switch if I could get £250 per day....