Is your rate "competitive"?

[conned tractor]

A few years ago I got a call about a permie role and the she-pimp asked if I thought I was pricing myself to high. This was for less than a third of what I'm on now FFS. Maybe it's a woman thing.

[chef]

I've been on the same rate, give or take 40 pounds a day for the last 4 years. It seems it's the going rate excluding expenses for my work, I'm happy with it and would not accept any less unless desperate which I don't see happening.

Short answer,no I don't lower my rate to be competitive.

[The Spartan]

Unless it was close to home I wouldn't entertain the notion at all

[mudskipper]

I always thought

Rate: competitive

on a job ad, meant them, not you.

[SimonMac]

I always thought

Rate: competitive

on a job ad, meant them, not you.

I thought it meant if we can find a Bob that will do it we will

[d000hg]

FFS woman, what you mean is 'can't you do it any cheaper than that?'

I hate this talk of 'most competitive rate' and so on. Speak English, stupid bint.

And no, I am not cheap. If you want cheap, go ahead, we'll speak again in a few months time when someone else has made a mess of it.

You can be cheaper without being cheap. If another skilled test manager seems as good as you and you both quote £X, but they are open to negotiation, they win.

[SneakySimon]

Oh, it's in Nottingham, is it?

Add another £10/hr then.

Hey, I live in Nottingham....

.....you need at least £20/hr for danger money!

[Mich the Tester]

You can be cheaper without being cheap. If another skilled test manager seems as good as you and you both quote £X, but they are open to negotiation, they win.

Proobably, yes, if it's a response to an ad, but I don't usually get work that way; I get work through a couple of agents who know me well and through a network of senior managers and programme managers who know what kind of person they want.

[The Spartan]

I hope I get to that level

[MarillionFan]

I quote different rates dependent on location.

If the location is London I'll always want a minimum of £50per day more than I would do for being local.

Again if driving I may add a little.

And if I'm asked to work in the North I ask for an extra £100000000000000000000000000000000 per day.