Most billable days in a financial year?

[amanwhoisquiet]

I'll probably get somewhere in the region of 205. I'm guessing though, as last summer I was on hours rather than days for a client for about 4 months. Only my second full year, and having a big lump of time off late summer (about 5 weeks) was an odd thing to get used to.

edit - this is a lie. I've counted all of this April in here too. (when this one finishes) .. so about 185.

[l35kee]

216 so far. Expect to work the remaining working days left too.

First year contracting, will be making sure this record holds.

[Manic]

Easily did 366+ in 08 when I first started contracting. The war chest was important to build up especially as the banking crisis was in full flow.

[craig1]

I aim for 160-200 worked billable days in a year. 220 is a busy year where I'm probably not going to get much time for training and development as well as the off-time that I want. My "record" is 248 in 2011 where I took off three working days in total. I wish I hadn't, only imbeciles or those with mindless jobs can work that much without burning out.

My current consultancy piece is likely to be 160 days over a 12 month period with an average 3-4 days a week. It's interesting watching the stressed out bunnies trying to fit 16 hours into a "professional" day with five of those a week.

[TheFaQQer]

When you have multiple clients, it's not difficult to get more than 366 in a leap year - and still have time off.

I will invoice for 365 days this year

[ladymuck]

Enough to pay the bills and have some cash left over for a bit of living.
And enough non-billable days to do a bit of living.

Ditto that! I had three concurrent clients last year so I had flurries of busy but earned lots to have a month off over Christmas/New Year and a nice trip to Oz. I am trying to line up more part time work with multiple clients as I really like the variety and flexibility. If you can manage their expectations and your time, it's great!

[WTFH]

Enough to pay the bills and have some cash left over for a bit of living.
And enough non-billable days to do a bit of living.

[oliverson]

I’m aiming for no more than 220. And no less than 200.

266 is ridiculous imo. As it’s usually max around 255 excluding weekend and BH so I assume you’re working BH/WE.

yes, weekend work was required. It would have been more had it not been for family bereavement.

The previous 3 months was 24, 24 and 23 days. I think it's time for a rest.

[oliverson]

Plenty of threads where people have waved their willys in the past. Here is one for example..

https://forums.contractoruk.com/gene...7-jan-dec.html

ha ha, great find. Good reading.

[vwdan]

When you have multiple clients, it's not difficult to get more than 366 in a leap year - and still have time off.

Hmm good point. If I include software sales, whose work consisted of me making an invoice, then I guess that adds an extra couple of months. Happy days!

[MrButton]

I’m aiming for no more than 220. And no less than 200.

266 is ridiculous imo. As it’s usually max around 255 excluding weekend and BH so I assume you’re working BH/WE.

[northernladuk]

Plenty of threads where people have waved their willys in the past. Here is one for example..

https://forums.contractoruk.com/gene...7-jan-dec.html

[NotAllThere]

When you have multiple clients, it's not difficult to get more than 366 in a leap year - and still have time off.

[vwdan]

Dunno, don't care, probably lower than that! I pride myself on the amount of time off I've been able to have

[oliverson]

I'm staring at 266 this financial year ending March 2018 which is my best ever. Probably explains why I'm burnt out.

What's your record?