What do you honestly believe is a good rate for what you do?

[d000hg]

£400+ or are you asking what I could survive on?

What you think is the 'right' amount you should be paid. I know that's woolly and personal, that's the point of the poll though. I mean I'm sure you'd love £2000/day but I doubt few of us would say we'd consider that sensible.

Another way to phrase it might be "how much would you pay you"?

[d000hg]

Nothing in the poll above £1000? For that reason, I'm out.

Was meant to be 1000+, maybe a mod can edit it.

[filthy1980]

i think my newbie contracting status sets a lower expectation then those of the seasoned pros on here

[jmo21]

£400+ or are you asking what I could survive on?

Lets face it £250 per day is only 60k gross ish and I could get a perm role for more basic with all the pension, sickpay, holiday, gym membership, yada yada that goes with it.

The area I work, £33k is the average perm salary for what I do, and I average £300/day with my contracts, and am pretty happy with that - before I started contracting, a similar skillset in my area could get you £400/day, but rates have dropped the last few years

[xchaotic]

Very nice and (to me) obvious distribution.
It's quite clear to me that if I were planning an IT project that requires specialist contractors, I would need to budget on average £450 per day per contractor.
Unfortunately what this also means, is that even for a medium sized project lasting a few months, the total cost ends up being high enough to consider outsourcing (even with it's overheads) the whole thing and not having to worry about details like proper resource allocation, skills match etc...

Lech

[Scrag Meister]

£400+ or are you asking what I could survive on?

Lets face it £250 per day is only 60k gross ish and I could get a perm role for more basic with all the pension, sickpay, holiday, gym membership, yada yada that goes with it.

[filthy1980]

as an infrastructure PM i'd say about about 250 p/d would be about fair if managing one medium/large sized project (<1m)

but i end up managing at least 5/6 small/medium sized project so i'd say in that case £350/£400 average is probably about right

[DimPrawn]

Nothing in the poll above £1000? For that reason, I'm out.

[d000hg]

Not "what rate would you take" or "what rate do you dream of". But what rate you think you're worth or would be happy with.

It's anonymous and not in General, so lets keep the boasting to a minimum