What's the highest rate you have ever seen?

[MyUserName]

At a bank in London they were offering £1200 a day for experienced C++ programmers with a PhD in Quantitative finance and various other bells and whistles.

[Talos]

My best rate

This is going back a while since in recent years things have dropped, my best rate was back in 2002 and was 155 an hour

[EternalOptimist]

worked with a PM about 10 years ago who was on 1k a day.

one of 'Bobble eye Browns' migrations

[darmstadt]

Mine, as I've never seen anyone else's...

[EternalOptimist]

I know this bloke right <cough>
he did a fixed price contract with a large pharma that was expected to last a few months.
BUT the agency insisted on an hourly rate, so it could be processed through their systems.

So the crafty contractor quoted an impossibly high rate and promised to complete the work in an impossibly low number of hours.

The work was done, in a lot more hours, but the contractor could only claim the number of hours agreed.

So the work was done, everyone was happy.

BUT...then the extensions kicked in. and the bastid contractor continued to get the impossibly high rate for over a year, until someone at the pharma twigged

<cough>

[original PM]

I know this bloke right <cough>
he did a fixed price contract with a large pharma that was expected to last a few months.
BUT the agency insisted on an hourly rate, so it could be processed through their systems.

So the crafty contractor quoted an impossibly high rate and promised to complete the work in an impossibly low number of hours.

The work was done, in a lot more hours, but the contractor could only claim the number of hours agreed.

So the work was done, everyone was happy.

BUT...then the extensions kicked in. and the bastid contractor continued to get the impossibly high rate for over a year, until someone at the pharma twigged

<cough>

Top work sir you are quite clearly cut out to be a contractor ;-)

[PurpleGorilla]

For the pimp deniers, just look at the half way to lying roles with a ridiculous rate range - 350 to 800 a day is one that I seem to recall the other day. It's almost as bad as "market" as you know the rate will be 350 when you ring up.

Just saw a role advertised for £0 - £1000, and likely to last more than 2 years. Great, £0/d and no business mileage. FTS!

[kal]

Just saw a role advertised for £0 - £1000, and likely to last more than 2 years. Great, £0/d and no business mileage. FTS!

Just been sent a role for an initial 306 (25.5 years!) month contract with extensions likely :-) (I mean c'mon how lazy a pimp do you need to be to not even proof read your advert...)

[NotAllThere]

Some of the high rates you see on jobserve and the like are caused by the rate being quoted in pounds but really being in euro, or, more often, a daily rate being specified as hourly.