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Trade day rates: what to charge, by trade
The record
- Trades
- 10
- Built from
- CIJC, JIB and JIB-PMES agreements
- Charged out at
- wage plus 35% and 20%
- Electrician£238a day, charged outWage £18.38 an hour, JIB · nobody yet
- Plumber£217a day, charged outWage £16.71 an hour, JIB-PMES · nobody yet
- Carpenter or joiner£213a day, charged outWage £16.40 an hour, CIJC · nobody yet
- Plasterer£213a day, charged outWage £16.40 an hour, CIJC · nobody yet
- Painter and decorator£213a day, charged outWage £16.40 an hour, CIJC · nobody yet
- Bricklayer£213a day, charged outWage £16.40 an hour, CIJC · nobody yet
- Tiler£213a day, charged outWage £16.40 an hour, CIJC · nobody yet
- Kitchen fitter£213a day, charged outWage £16.40 an hour, CIJC · nobody yet
- Roofer£213a day, charged outWage £16.40 an hour, CIJC · nobody yet
- Labourer£171a day, charged outWage £13.18 an hour, CIJC · nobody yet
Charge-out figures are the benchmark wage plus 35% on-costs plus 20% overhead and profit, over 8 hours. The count of contributions is a fact and is shown from the first one; the middle of what people actually pay appears at 5.
Why what you pay is not what a person costs
A wage is the smallest part of what an employed tradesperson costs you. On top of it sit employer’s National Insurance, holiday pay, the auto-enrolment pension, the industry levy, and an allowance for sick pay and employer’s liability insurance - about 35% before a penny of overhead or profit. Charge the wage and you are paying for the privilege of employing somebody.
Working for yourself is a different sum, not a smaller one. There is no employer’s National Insurance on your own labour, so the figure is lower - but the holiday nobody funds, the days you are ill and the weeks you are not booked are still real, and they are still yours.
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