1st October 2006, 04:46 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by historic building
Well remember it is only £26 grand a year if you work every day - including Christmas and all bank holidays, never take a day off and are never ill.
Yes, fair enough.
OK then, assuming 30 days holiday and ten days off sick (for example), that works out at £22K/year, which is still over half as much more than a typical digger salary. Still sounds pretty good. However if you are truely self-employed, your own insurance, accountancy fees, training, equipments costs etc. come out of that.
Perhaps £100/day wouldn't be so unreasonable.
So, assuming all this is legal (and no-one so far has answered that question), what would be a fair mark up? How much more do specialists in equivalent areas of construction get for self-employed than PAYE work?