30th August 2004, 07:52 PM
I regularly employ a bill of quantities approach to employing archaeologists but this is fairly rare. Most units cannot cope when I ask for a price per skeleton including post X or excavating a 1m ditch section on a field system.
Claims for inclement weather are not the norm on fixed proced contracts.
The tools and plant is costed as a separate item in effect as per builders preliminary and set up costs.
There is however little similarity otherwise.
BTW I am aware of the multipers for wages to charge out rates commonly used in business particularly for consultants. To use the construction industry comparison labourers or sub-contractors are not charged at three times there wages. An uplift of 10% is taken on sub-contractors.
It is a common mistake made in business to use things like the times three multiplier. What you charge is what the market will bear. What you earn is the profit you make. Profit is the difference between the costs and the income. Turnover is vanity (and so are charge out rates) profit is sanity.
People are now commonly treated as a commodity: I, for one, do not subscribe to this "modern" ethics of business. People are a business's most important asset .... and the means byu which you make a profit.
Similarly 15k overheads for somebody who has a home office (like I do - I prefer it - I have 250 square feet and I may extend this to 600 square feet it will cost me 10k) is extravagent to say the least.
Peter
Claims for inclement weather are not the norm on fixed proced contracts.
The tools and plant is costed as a separate item in effect as per builders preliminary and set up costs.
There is however little similarity otherwise.
BTW I am aware of the multipers for wages to charge out rates commonly used in business particularly for consultants. To use the construction industry comparison labourers or sub-contractors are not charged at three times there wages. An uplift of 10% is taken on sub-contractors.
It is a common mistake made in business to use things like the times three multiplier. What you charge is what the market will bear. What you earn is the profit you make. Profit is the difference between the costs and the income. Turnover is vanity (and so are charge out rates) profit is sanity.
People are now commonly treated as a commodity: I, for one, do not subscribe to this "modern" ethics of business. People are a business's most important asset .... and the means byu which you make a profit.
Similarly 15k overheads for somebody who has a home office (like I do - I prefer it - I have 250 square feet and I may extend this to 600 square feet it will cost me 10k) is extravagent to say the least.
Peter