Reply to: £7,000 day rate - how the other half live

[d000hg]

Some doctors in NHS do private practice at £500 per hour

Presumably not 9-5 though, they get the odd juicy gig to top up their income?

[greenlake]

yes but they would built in a month and have all the UAT paperwork signed off!

A month? Pah! Any script kiddie would have one built for you in a couple of days....

[vetran]

I typically don't.

My Software Engineering degrees are BSc & MSc and specifically not BEng & MEng. Very little of what we do in the field would be construed as being of a set of professional standards such as that required to build a bridge.

If our industry built them, they'd be falling down on a weekly basis.

yes but they would built in a month and have all the UAT paperwork signed off!

[fool]

I quite agree....

I typically don't.

My Software Engineering degrees are BSc & MSc and specifically not BEng & MEng. Very little of what we do in the field would be construed as being of a set of professional standards such as that required to build a bridge.

If our industry built them, they'd be falling down on a weekly basis.

[wantacontract]

Software engineer is certainly a valid term, and there's nothing wrong with calling oneself an engineer in context. However, colloquially, to say one works in "engineering" strongly implies something more akin to mechanical engineering - the kind of role that may have a protected title elsewhere.

The sector itself is broadly immaterial when it comes to contractor pay.

Not only that, but within the context of the thread it's clear nobody was talking about software engineering, so your deliberately vague input is next to useless.

I quite agree....

[vwdan]

Yeah ok mate, whatever.

Salty

[Dark Black]

Software engineer is certainly a valid term, and there's nothing wrong with calling oneself an engineer in context. However, colloquially, to say one works in "engineering" strongly implies something more akin to mechanical engineering - the kind of role that may have a protected title elsewhere.

The sector itself is broadly immaterial when it comes to contractor pay.

Not only that, but within the context of the thread it's clear nobody was talking about software engineering, so your deliberately vague input is next to useless.

Yeah ok mate, whatever.

[vwdan]

Yeah ok then, I'll bite

Software engineering was a valid term last time I looked.

I usually work in the "engineering" sector (as opposed to finance or health or whatever else has software these days).

So yes... I am in engineering.

HTHBIDI

Software engineer is certainly a valid term, and there's nothing wrong with calling oneself an engineer in context. However, colloquially, to say one works in "engineering" strongly implies something more akin to mechanical engineering - the kind of role that may have a protected title elsewhere.

The sector itself is broadly immaterial when it comes to contractor pay.

Not only that, but within the context of the thread it's clear nobody was talking about software engineering, so your deliberately vague input is next to useless.

[Dark Black]

So you're not really "in engineering" then?

Yeah ok then, I'll bite

Software engineering was a valid term last time I looked.

I usually work in the "engineering" sector (as opposed to finance or health or whatever else has software these days).

So yes... I am in engineering.

HTHBIDI

[vwdan]

I wish... would be more interesting than writing software

So you're not really "in engineering" then?

[Dark Black]

proper engineering with lathes?

I wish... would be more interesting than writing software

[vetran]

I'm still in engineering, I haven't got out of bed for that sort of rate for years!

proper engineering with lathes?

[Dark Black]

Being in engineering sector, best I ever managed was £40 an hour.

I'm still in engineering, I haven't got out of bed for that sort of rate for years!

[Andy2]

Some doctors in NHS do private practice at £500 per hour

[Zigenare]

I would very well believe the 7k figure and then some.

My thinking is... you hear of the odd £1k per hour high powered professional/consultant here and there, making a work day equate to about £7k.

I once had an issue and was quoted £400 per hour for partners time at a boutique law firm. Easy to see how some big players would get that up to a £1000.

I reckon the million dollar bonuses are relating to bringing in billable time for armies of consultants and new business. I doubt it's contingent on single billable only.

Have you guys not read "The Firm"?

Tells you all you need to know about "Consultants".