A rough method of working out your day rate

[Francko]

It strikes me as an excercise in futility coming onto an IT contractors board and trying to argue that being permie is better ... don't you have you're own 'special needs' forum or are you to busy tonguing your bosses choclate starfish in a misguided attempt to wangle a bigger bonus or a good performance review ...

Far from me saying something like this as I have already decided that sometimes next year I will go contracting again.

However, I don't like when people say that there are so many intangible benefits rather than money and perhaps they can accept a lower rate for that. The rate is the most important thing and what should discriminate. There is no way that any contractor should accept a similar or lower rate than a permie.

[Francko]

- Variety of clients

Not only for contractors

- Being able to walk if you don't like a place, without fear of how it will look on your CV

Not only for contractors

- Extended time off (not a couple of weeks at a time booked 12 months in advance) - especially useful after a stressful deployment when you feel like jacking it all in.

Not for all contractors, in many case an extended time off simply means you have to find a new contract

- No need to engage with other f uckwits if you don't wish to, or bend over for the line manager on a daily basis. No need to turn up to tiresome social events in your own time, when you really want to be with your real friends

You don't have to as a permie, I never turn up to social events.

- No need to be first in / last out and get no cash for doing so

No permie is being forced to.

- Master of one's own destiny. Looking back at ten years of variety without thinking where did it all go?

Oh well that applies to everybody.