Reply to: What is a good rate these days?

[Sysman]

A mate scored 850/day + expenses +WFH fridays on his first contract, had to fly down to heathrow and stay but I had to tell him this was not normal, it lasted years as well...

I was getting 400 a day plus all expenses and paid travel time in the late 1980s, but that was for 3 weeks at a time. One lucky chap there on similar money went out to install something and got extended to about 18 months without having to renegotiate his rate.

[lukemg]

Best rate has been 500/day last year (fluked into a non-IT interim mgmt role) usually 3-400 but it's oop north so not bad.
A mate scored 850/day + expenses +WFH fridays on his first contract, had to fly down to heathrow and stay but I had to tell him this was not normal, it lasted years as well...

[Spacecadet]

Comparing rates now to what they were in the .com boom is like buying tulip bulbs by the crate cause we're just in a dip and the dutch will again start paying millions for them!

[doodab]

I do a job that Bob has never been able to get the hang of.

You work in an English speaking call centre?

[Doggy Styles]

I've never received even 400 per day.

But then again, I do a job that Bob has never been able to get the hang of. For which I'm grateful.

[Platypus]

"should be"... so I guess you're not. I think this is same across our industry, because rates have fallen since the dot-com days. My line of work paid £1k a day in 2000 but it's averaging less than half that. Fortunately I'm a little better off than that, for now, but can't see it lasting.

My best ever rate was $100 per hour, but that was 10 years ago now. It's been downhill since then

[SueEllen]

"should be"... so I guess you're not. I think this is same across our industry, because rates have fallen since the dot-com days. My line of work paid £1k a day in 2000 but it's averaging less than half that. Fortunately I'm a little better off than that, for now, but can't see it lasting.

Foreign non-EU imports keeping rates down.

[ChimpMaster]

I was earning £480 p/d in the late nineties.

Taking into account inflation, I should be getting £620 p/d now.

Historical UK Inflation And Price Conversion

"should be"... so I guess you're not. I think this is same across our industry, because rates have fallen since the dot-com days. My line of work paid £1k a day in 2000 but it's averaging less than half that. Fortunately I'm a little better off than that, for now, but can't see it lasting.

[DimPrawn]

Inflation

I was earning £480 p/d in the late nineties.

Taking into account inflation, I should be getting £620 p/d now.

Historical UK Inflation And Price Conversion

[Scrag Meister]

But if you can get 60k as a permie you would be looking at more like £450+ for a contract. £250 a day is roughly what a permie on £30-35k could charge as a contractor, so it still works out better. You're not comparing like with like.

Point taken.

[Bunk]

£250 per day is only 60k per year which you could get being permie.

But if you can get 60k as a permie you would be looking at more like £450+ for a contract. £250 a day is roughly what a permie on £30-35k could charge as a contractor, so it still works out better. You're not comparing like with like.

[Drewster]

Asked the agent why, he said the client was not getting the right people, when the role had a lower rate

One of the few times I would like to be face to face with a Pimp........ So I could punch him repeatedly!!!

[alreadypacked]

I was quoted a good rate had a phone interview, offered the role, then they wanted to drop the rate.

I said no thanks.

Asked the agent why, he said the client was not getting the right people, when the role had a lower rate

[Scrag Meister]

A very generalised question indeed - but my curiousity was raised by a thread in one of the other sections about £800/day contract with a £200 "bonus" for completion of the project. Now to me that sounds like a hectic of a lot of money, especially in this day and age of China and India taking on a lot of the work to produce low quality results. But am I missing something here? Have rates gone up?

For london based contracts, I thought £500/day was a good rate, now I'm not so sure. I'd be very happy with £800, but I'd also fear that this would highlight me as a very expensive option and one to be eliminated by the client.

Anything below £250 is a poor rate - again in London and my personal opinion.

£250 per day is only 60k per year which you could get being permie.

£500 pd is a great rate for normal run of the mill corporate jobs, normal for banking.

To get £800 pd plus a £200pd bonus you need to be a guru in a sort after niche low supplier count skill.

Better than an unqualified relative. Take my uncle Keith for example.

LOL

[doodab]

Sorry about the qualified absolute

Better than an unqualified relative. Take my uncle Keith for example.