Rate Ranges

[Sockpuppet]

Why do they do this.

Applied for a role with a rate of £250 - £350 a day.

Agnect says "what rate are you looking for". Well £350 of course is what i say.

Why do this range thing? I know you are willing to pay upto £350 and if I get the job know I am the best candidate so why would I want £250.

Just seems daft to me. Now not that I do this to the client. They ask me to specify a rate so I give a range e.g. £300 - £400. If they come back at bang on £300 I push then to £350 for the cheek of it. If they had come in at £325 then I would have let it fly.

[wendigo100]

£325 a day - is that good for driving lorries?

[Troll]

There doesn't seem to be that much difference in rates between van & HGV driving- especially on an hourly rate.

I can't see how the costs involved in getting the class licence can be justified.

[Sockpuppet]

Depends where you live.

Up north or down south HGV drivers will get probably only about £7-8 an hour. Pretty much the same as a an driver. Not sure why.

In the midlands, or better the "golden triangle" ... i.e. the M6, M1, M69 then you can get paid a lot more. Van drivers are still on the £7-8 but HGV drivers are on £15/hour for a day shift. Weekend/night can probably add another £5 to that. Great thing supply and demand (when you're in demand). We also seem have survived the polski revolution due to thier nature to crash a lot.

Not the most entralling wages in the world and certainloy not worth giving up looking for the next contract for but better than doing nowt.

[Bagpuss]

Why do they do this.

Applied for a role with a rate of £250 - £350 a day.

Agnect says "what rate are you looking for". Well £350 of course is what i say.

Why do this range thing? I know you are willing to pay upto £350 and if I get the job know I am the best candidate so why would I want £250.

£350 will get the CVs in, £250 is what they want to pay you. Most likely £350 is for "exceptional candidates" which unsuprisingly according to the agency no-one is. Avoid agencies who use this tactic.

[thunderlizard]

it is fairly odd, but the principle is the same as when you pop down to Threshers wanting a bottle of wine in the £6-10 range. It falls down because the wine in Threshers won't change its price based on what your range is, but a lot of contractors will.
The tacit assumption that the more expensive wine in Threshers is a bit better doesn't hold true with contractors either.

But I still find rate ranges more palateable than when the client just decides what they want to pay and tells you that's going to be your price.

[M@H]

Thay are often coblers anyway. I have applied for jobs with low ranges and then named my range to the agency, at that point they usually cut to the chase and we talk around the total cost and their margin. I haven't had a contract in 3 years that I haven't known the Agency % of and I don't work with greedy agencies