You cannot compare the two. They just do not equate.
I am permie now after leaving contracting a few years ago. I have a young family and need to be able to do the school run as my wife cannot drive. I want to be home before they go to bed etc. the only contract I got offered was Bloomburg in London at £650 a day but they expect long hours. Even if I somehow made that work 6 months later I might have everything thrown up in the air again if my next gig is somewhere else
I got a permie job where the commute is 45 minutes each way every day. For the forseeable future that will not change. I can move back and forth between teams doing everything from compile work up the GUI side and no one minds me training in the car park at lunchtime, even when I do it in full plate armour. Several people have even come and joined in, although not in armour.
No accoutants, no agents, no HRMC, no staying on top of legislation to make sure I am IR35 compliant. None of that hassle at all.
The benefit of a permie job have been (for me) security, regularlity and reduced stress, you cannot really compare that in a maths calculation because those feelings wil vary by person and by time - for some people what I have described above is probably a form of torture!
I am permie now after leaving contracting a few years ago. I have a young family and need to be able to do the school run as my wife cannot drive. I want to be home before they go to bed etc. the only contract I got offered was Bloomburg in London at £650 a day but they expect long hours. Even if I somehow made that work 6 months later I might have everything thrown up in the air again if my next gig is somewhere else
I got a permie job where the commute is 45 minutes each way every day. For the forseeable future that will not change. I can move back and forth between teams doing everything from compile work up the GUI side and no one minds me training in the car park at lunchtime, even when I do it in full plate armour. Several people have even come and joined in, although not in armour.
No accoutants, no agents, no HRMC, no staying on top of legislation to make sure I am IR35 compliant. None of that hassle at all.
The benefit of a permie job have been (for me) security, regularlity and reduced stress, you cannot really compare that in a maths calculation because those feelings wil vary by person and by time - for some people what I have described above is probably a form of torture!
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