9th September 2010, 11:48 PM
I've worked as self employed numerous times ( including for Gerry Martin ) and i'd much prefer to work self employed than PAYE. Given the short term contracts handed out by most Archaeology companies holiday and pension entitlement are pretty meaningless anyway. As for the daily rate it's typically ?100 for an experienced digger but i've noticed that some of the adverts leave it up to the individual to ''name their rate'' ..... which means that the company ends up with the cheapest workforce possible.