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Post by bungo the mungo on Dec 13, 2020 13:59:38 GMT
I think that only works if you're in a specialist position where you can offer some fairly unique skills/experience that are hard to find in the general work population. Adam - you should go freelance instead of being tied to a language school. i am! teaching is not my main source of income, but i do work freelance with a couple of language schools and also do some private classes. i prefer language schools as they offer guaranteed classes, whereas private students can be a bit flaky. being self-employed here is a nightmare though, as the minimum social security payment is not proportional to your earnings. it doesn't matter whether you earn €1000 a month or €5000, you still pay the same. during these COVID times, that has been a problem. |
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Dec 13, 2020 14:03:04 GMT
Ah, OK. Yeah, it's a tough situation. It's why I left Berlin in the end.
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Post by cousinlou on Dec 13, 2020 15:37:35 GMT
Just divide 20 by 0.85. Better advise: tell them what your hourly rate is instead of them telling you. cheers. all sorted now. i'm a bit of a div when it comes to maths. not too bad at English though. i think you meant to write 'advice'. Thanks! Please send me your bank account # so that I can send you the €0.33 for the minute of your time that took you. 😉 |
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Post by sloopjohnc on Dec 13, 2020 15:41:55 GMT
Just divide 20 by 0.85. Better advise: tell them what your hourly rate is instead of them telling you. I've hired lots of contractors during the years. I have a budget for certain projects and build in what I think the hourly rate the project can withstand, and like I wrote, I've been doing this for years so I know the standard rates for all kinds of projects I manage. I also factor in the duration and difficulty of a project. If I'm hiring a web developer to head up a new website, which can take 8 mos. or more, they can't charge $95 per hour. I will negotiate for $60 or under, hopefully under, and reinforce that this will be lots of hours and lots of time. I could probably withstand $75 an hour, but why would I? I once contracted at a SAAS company and I negotiated for $80 an hour for a 40 hour week. I thought I was super shrewd. My supervisor made the mistake of cc'ing me on an email to HR telling them they would have gone up to $110. I'd been on the other side for years and got deked. |
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Post by Charlie O. on Dec 13, 2020 17:42:25 GMT
Going back to the original question: to get from the lower number to the higher number, multiply the lower by 1.15.
To go the other way, divide the higher number by 1.15.
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Post by cousinlou on Dec 13, 2020 17:48:45 GMT
Going back to the original question: to get from the lower number to the higher number, multiply the lower by 1.15. To go the other way, divide the higher number by 1.15. He wanted to go from the higher to the lower |
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Post by cousinlou on Dec 13, 2020 17:53:28 GMT
Just divide 20 by 0.85. Better advise: tell them what your hourly rate is instead of them telling you. cheers. all sorted now. i'm a bit of a div when it comes to maths. not too bad at English though. i think you meant to write 'advice'. In Dutch, but also in English I hope, the start of a sentence is usually with a capital. |
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Dec 13, 2020 17:56:24 GMT
adam is a lower-case fiend
can you remember the other chap who did the same? old bcb regular
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Post by Charlie O. on Dec 13, 2020 17:58:40 GMT
Sneelock is very selective about his caps.
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Post by bungo the mungo on Dec 13, 2020 18:07:51 GMT
adam is a lower-case fiend can you remember the other chap who did the same? old bcb regular fatty griff |
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Dec 13, 2020 18:09:11 GMT
Another teacher!
Hmm...
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Post by Charlie O. on Dec 13, 2020 18:37:43 GMT
and kath!
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Post by cousinlou on Dec 14, 2020 8:58:55 GMT
Just divide 20 by 0.85. Better advise: tell them what your hourly rate is instead of them telling you. I've hired lots of contractors during the years. I have a budget for certain projects and build in what I think the hourly rate the project can withstand, and like I wrote, I've been doing this for years so I know the standard rates for all kinds of projects I manage. I also factor in the duration and difficulty of a project. If I'm hiring a web developer to head up a new website, which can take 8 mos. or more, they can't charge $95 per hour. I will negotiate for $60 or under, hopefully under, and reinforce that this will be lots of hours and lots of time. I could probably withstand $75 an hour, but why would I? I once contracted at a SAAS company and I negotiated for $80 an hour for a 40 hour week. I thought I was super shrewd. My supervisor made the mistake of cc'ing me on an email to HR telling them they would have gone up to $110. I'd been on the other side for years and got deked. 20 years ago I also had an experience that I found out what ideas the other party had. But, beforehand. It was in 2000 or 2001 and I had sold my company to a big NZ company. They wanted me to stay on for a few years to manage the business. In one of the talks we held, they asked me what remuneration I wanted and I told them it was up to them to make an offer. Some time after, I started receiving half finished emails with proposals. I think it were about 4 or so, each with hugely different numbers. The guy sending them was not so smart with a laptop and/or email. Then I got an email saying they thought is better that I came up with a proposal. So I did and send them their highest figure plus 15% or so and added that that was the figure that I would accept and there was little room for negotiation. They came back with my figure, minus the 15%. :-) |
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