What is a good rate these days?

[ChimpMaster]

I was earning £480 p/d in the late nineties.

Taking into account inflation, I should be getting £620 p/d now.

Historical UK Inflation And Price Conversion

"should be"... so I guess you're not. I think this is same across our industry, because rates have fallen since the dot-com days. My line of work paid £1k a day in 2000 but it's averaging less than half that. Fortunately I'm a little better off than that, for now, but can't see it lasting.

[SueEllen]

"should be"... so I guess you're not. I think this is same across our industry, because rates have fallen since the dot-com days. My line of work paid £1k a day in 2000 but it's averaging less than half that. Fortunately I'm a little better off than that, for now, but can't see it lasting.

Foreign non-EU imports keeping rates down.

[Platypus]

"should be"... so I guess you're not. I think this is same across our industry, because rates have fallen since the dot-com days. My line of work paid £1k a day in 2000 but it's averaging less than half that. Fortunately I'm a little better off than that, for now, but can't see it lasting.

My best ever rate was $100 per hour, but that was 10 years ago now. It's been downhill since then

[Doggy Styles]

I've never received even 400 per day.

But then again, I do a job that Bob has never been able to get the hang of. For which I'm grateful.

[doodab]

I do a job that Bob has never been able to get the hang of.

You work in an English speaking call centre?

[Spacecadet]

Comparing rates now to what they were in the .com boom is like buying tulip bulbs by the crate cause we're just in a dip and the dutch will again start paying millions for them!

[lukemg]

Best rate has been 500/day last year (fluked into a non-IT interim mgmt role) usually 3-400 but it's oop north so not bad.
A mate scored 850/day + expenses +WFH fridays on his first contract, had to fly down to heathrow and stay but I had to tell him this was not normal, it lasted years as well...

[Sysman]

A mate scored 850/day + expenses +WFH fridays on his first contract, had to fly down to heathrow and stay but I had to tell him this was not normal, it lasted years as well...

I was getting 400 a day plus all expenses and paid travel time in the late 1980s, but that was for 3 weeks at a time. One lucky chap there on similar money went out to install something and got extended to about 18 months without having to renegotiate his rate.