Reply to: Poll: Minimum daily rate you could survive on based on your financial commitments?

[zara_backdog]

Being chased for roles at £200pd - just finshed gig on £350pd

To take, or not to take: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The drop in rate and lack my outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of agents,
And by opposing end these cut in rates? To die: to sleep;
No more; and to this credit crunch we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'continue my daily rate’
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: of the 12 month contract on £500 a day, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes us work for a daily rate.

[oracleslave]

Also: http://www.mysalary.co.uk/highest-uk-salaries.php

HR Director (Global company)

Nearly as much as a brain surgeon. FFS that is ludicrous.

[d000hg]

Also: http://www.mysalary.co.uk/highest-uk-salaries.php

The top ten salaries by job title are as follows:

• Chief Executive Officer
• Managing Director
• Vice President
  
• Enterprise Architect
  
• Legal Counsel
• Patent Barrister
• Executive Producer
• General Practitioner
• Brain Surgeon
• Strategy Consultant]
• HR Director (Global company)

[oracleslave]

my view is biased living up north.

That is indeed a significant hurdle to overcome.

[d000hg]

I thought 27/28K was about the national average?

Sounds high: http://www.mysalary.co.uk/averagesalary.php says mid 20s. http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=285 ties in with that.

I was actually thinking average was nearer 20 but I guess my view is biased living up north.

[mailric]

Its your Work:Pay ration that counts most.

30k a year permie working your bolockx off v's £000's per day posting on CUK.... you do the math!

[oracleslave]

A salary of £30K works out as about £16/hr or £130/day, and is a lot higher than the average salary...

I thought 27/28K was about the national average?

[d000hg]

A salary of £30K works out as about £16/hr or £130/day, and is a lot higher than the average salary... if you don't have to support children etc that's quite comfortable (depending on your tastes).

I figure if you can get £400/day without taking long bench-rests, you're probably in the top 1-2% of the country, earnings-wise. Do people here realise just how much more they earn than most people, out of interest?

[Diver]

I can go on but couldn't be bothered Many contractors who are not clued up dont bother reviewing/getting contracts reviewed never mind the actual working arrangments

Oh my!

This thread has sunk to the level of Business/Contracts

[YHB]

Where's the £0 option?

Not there as just being greedy- go retire and stop hogging jobs

[YHB]

Being in one contract at a time has very little to do with IR35. You're clearly not as informed as you think you are.

Oh, and sentences generally begin with capital letters.

I can go on but couldn't be bothered Many contractors who are not clued up dont bother reviewing/getting contracts reviewed never mind the actual working arrangments

[oracleslave]

worst case. majority of IT contractors in UK are 1 job at a time based inside/potential ir35 breaches. many know little about it

'Not worth listening too' indeed.

[Diver]

Where's the £0 option?

+ cardboard box

[IR35 Avoider]

Where's the £0 option?

[DiscoStu]

worst case. majority of IT contractors in UK are 1 job at a time based inside/potential ir35 breaches. many know little about it

Being in one contract at a time has very little to do with IR35. You're clearly not as informed as you think you are.

Oh, and sentences generally begin with capital letters.