HELP! Extension Day Rate Negotiation!

[GhostofTarbera]

Food bank rate, tell them you need to eat


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[Fraidycat]

Should I count my blessings and accept the extension at my current rate or ask for an increase?

Are you paid market rate for your role, or the new planned role?

If it is well below market you could argue that.

Are you easily replaceable, do you think the client considers you in top 10th percentile or above when it comes to your job performance, or could they go to market and replace you within a week with another average contractor at your existing rate?

In your position i would ask for £375 and take what ever more is offered including nothing.

Little harm in asking, you dont always have to threaten to quit there and then if you dont get the requested increase.

The client will sometimes agree as they dont want you quitting mid contract when you find something better.

[hugebrain]

Are you paid market rate for

In your position i would ask for £375.

What is wrong with you? This whole board is about whining about tax and the government. Now suddenly you want us to pay more tax so this public sector scrounger can leech more from us? Get a grip people.

[Fraidycat]

What is wrong with you? This whole board is about whining about tax and the government. Now suddenly you want us to pay more tax so this public sector scrounger can leech more from us? Get a grip people.

His managers will just spend the money on something else, even more wasteful. Might as well be a fellow Contractor who gets the dosh.

[BlasterBates]

No harm in trying for a rate increase though I doubt they'll agree to a 15% increase. I suspect it would be more like 5%, if at all in the current market. I would ask and accept their offer or look for something else. Normally contractors get significant increases by finding a new contract elsewhere.

[Analyst91]

Hi all, OP here.

Thanks for all the advice! I've decided to go ahead and ask for the £375 but am prepared to accept less/no increase if it comes to it. If you don't ask, you don't get and the way I see it there isn't much to lose. Worst comes to worst, they say no and I remain on the same day rate.


Also just a quick note as I've seen a few posters assuming I am male and referring to me as "he" or "him". Just to clarify that I'm a woman which, although not relevant to the post, I wanted to point out as not all IT contractors are men

[eek]

Hi all, OP here.

Thanks for all the advice! I've decided to go ahead and ask for the £375 but am prepared to accept less/no increase if it comes to it. If you don't ask, you don't get and the way I see it there isn't much to lose. Worst comes to worst, they say no and I remain on the same day rate.


Also just a quick note as I've seen a few posters assuming I am male and referring to me as "he" or "him". Just to clarify that I'm a woman which, although not relevant to the post, I wanted to point out as not all IT contractors are men

Most people on here know that - but he / him is easier to say than other options. Especially when some women prefer to hide their gender online for various reasons.

[northernladuk]

Hi all, OP here.

Thanks for all the advice! I've decided to go ahead and ask for the £375 but am prepared to accept less/no increase if it comes to it. If you don't ask, you don't get and the way I see it there isn't much to lose. Worst comes to worst, they say no and I remain on the same day rate.

So there was no real point asking the question then as you've completely ignored all the advice.

[malvolio]

Hi all, OP here.

Thanks for all the advice! I've decided to go ahead and ask for the £375 but am prepared to accept less/no increase if it comes to it. If you don't ask, you don't get and the way I see it there isn't much to lose. Worst comes to worst, they say no and I remain on the same day rate.


Also just a quick note as I've seen a few posters assuming I am male and referring to me as "he" or "him". Just to clarify that I'm a woman which, although not relevant to the post, I wanted to point out as not all IT contractors are men

Quite a lot of them aren't, including those who claim to be!

[Fraidycat]

Hi all, OP here.
Thanks for all the advice! I've decided to go ahead and ask for the £375 but am prepared to accept less/no increase if it comes to it. If you don't ask, you don't get and the way I see it there isn't much to lose. Worst comes to worst, they say no and I remain on the same day rate.

Go for it, the last time i asked a client for £50 a day rate increase the client gave me £30. And also said your agent is skimming £70 a day, if you want that other £20 get it off them.

I was surprised the agent was taking so little, i had thought they were skimming off around £120.

So i felt a bit sorry for them and didnt try and cut them down to just £50 a day. As they were a good agent who got me a good rate, £30 higher than what i was after when i started the gig.

But had they been taking £120 i would have squeezed them for that £20 for sure.