30th August 2004, 02:07 AM
My point in a nutshell is this. Where does the money go - is it due to the inefficeincy of the business, the liability of the employer or profit. We have agreed it is not the third possibility which of the other two is it.
There are overheads, there is a cost to employing them other than the wages (btw safety boots, comfy ones in female sizes cost ?25 from macro and they do a nice line in HV poloshirts at ?15. Is that professional look of having the unit name on the HV or the logo on the Van neccessary?)
A digger is a digger who needs:
all h&S kit cost ?200.
a trowel ?20
a pick axe ?15
a shovel ?15
a spade ?45 (stainless steel)
mattock ?15
and similar
Each day they will consume (in cost to the developer terms which is charged separetly anyway)
10 context sheets 30p
Permatrace ?5
Ploybags for finds ?2
for example
They need on site a bog - about ?15 per day including cleaning
Mess facilities ?25 for that portacabin not each but for the whole project. (would it be cheaper/cost effective to send the diggers to a cafe and pay for their food rather than hiring a facility).
I could start to rant that it would be cheaper to send diggers to site in a taxi than the cost of the vehicle that is charged to the project. My last car cost me 12p a mile (including depreciation) to run and I was paid 32p per mile in expenses (when I was a proper archaeologist). I bought it new, a Volkswagen polo, to replace the BMW. My current car a honda civic has cost me ?200 in repairs in total and costs 16p per mile plus petrol and my clients are charged 40p per mile. (I have done a 100k miles in it).
On one real job (and if people from that unit are reading this I am not criticising) if one of the staff owned a car and was being paid the profitable mileage rate I quote but the developer was being charged the same the net effect would be ?2698.666667 increase in pay to a digger and the car owner would be in profit by ?500.
Hiring cars is very expensive.
Peter
There are overheads, there is a cost to employing them other than the wages (btw safety boots, comfy ones in female sizes cost ?25 from macro and they do a nice line in HV poloshirts at ?15. Is that professional look of having the unit name on the HV or the logo on the Van neccessary?)
A digger is a digger who needs:
all h&S kit cost ?200.
a trowel ?20
a pick axe ?15
a shovel ?15
a spade ?45 (stainless steel)
mattock ?15
and similar
Each day they will consume (in cost to the developer terms which is charged separetly anyway)
10 context sheets 30p
Permatrace ?5
Ploybags for finds ?2
for example
They need on site a bog - about ?15 per day including cleaning
Mess facilities ?25 for that portacabin not each but for the whole project. (would it be cheaper/cost effective to send the diggers to a cafe and pay for their food rather than hiring a facility).
I could start to rant that it would be cheaper to send diggers to site in a taxi than the cost of the vehicle that is charged to the project. My last car cost me 12p a mile (including depreciation) to run and I was paid 32p per mile in expenses (when I was a proper archaeologist). I bought it new, a Volkswagen polo, to replace the BMW. My current car a honda civic has cost me ?200 in repairs in total and costs 16p per mile plus petrol and my clients are charged 40p per mile. (I have done a 100k miles in it).
On one real job (and if people from that unit are reading this I am not criticising) if one of the staff owned a car and was being paid the profitable mileage rate I quote but the developer was being charged the same the net effect would be ?2698.666667 increase in pay to a digger and the car owner would be in profit by ?500.
Hiring cars is very expensive.
Peter