How much would you charge per hour?

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Helping run a business, WFH, fully remote, 10 hours a week, freelance basis.

Role includes:

Customer service via email and phone
Some sales (not cold calling)
Administration
Managing x1 team member
Creating new procedures for efficiency
Emergency trouble shooting

Health & wellness industry.

What would you pay per hour?

The crux is what % of wage should be added to compensate the lack of holiday pay, sickness, NI contributions etc.

So, say for example the job itself is 'worth' £15ph, (employed) you'd add 20% for a freelance per hour wage of £18?

I work in the public sector our admin get paid less than minimum wage will be in two weeks,

Just because they get crap wages doesn't mean we should benchmark against that.

Yep, and think this thread is about to be full of people in employed roles suggesting the OP shouldn’t expect more than minimum wage as that’s what they get (and they do more!)…

£40 per hour on a self-employed, freelance basis.

I'd say £20 as a minimum

That’s for contractors. You need to add extra to account for the fact that the hours are in no way, shape or form guaranteed.

No no think it's a minimum wage job more or less so adding the extra bit on takes it to the £14/£15 I suggested

Even if ‘freelance’ it wouldn’t be ‘no contract’, there will be a contract of some kind even if not written down (poor practice). It doesn’t sound like true self employment for either tax or worker rights purposes.

Yep, this is the standard minimum for self-employed hours.

I did summer jobs like this when I was younger; basic admin, bit of cold calling, taking customer service calls, implementing some new admin processes to streamline things, some invoicing etc, they were never more than minimum wage jobs and anyone wanting that can easily find it for that price. If you want more money you have to offer something different and more valuable

I wouldn’t take less than £25 an hour tbh. Yes some people may pay minimum wage for similar, but they shouldn’t be IME - managing someone and creating efficiency procedures are not really minimum wage work. I also think with your emergency troubleshooting, your hours will be a bit varied and there’ll be a demand for you to work flexibly around what the business needs on a week to week basis, which should also come at a premium.

OP, have you tried asking in freelance groups and communities, e.g. on facebook, Linkedin, etc.? You‘ll get skewed answers here from people in employed roles who don’t understand self-employment.

Thank you everyone.

Surely it depends on the type of work?

There are many self employed people who don't charge even half that amount. Would you pay a cleaner £40 ph for example?

OP I think they’re taking the piss. £14 for a full time ‘freelance’ role with no employment protections or benefits and no contracted hours is outrageous and leaves you in a very vulnerable position (as it seems they’ve underlined by slashing your hours by 2/3 and leaving you out of work).

It sounds like disguised employment tbh.

I work remotely as a data analyst and get paid £40K for a 37 hour week.

My cleaner charges 20 per hour and I only get the same as her and I'm in a senior management role.

Unless you do this for more than 1 company you're not going to be classed as self employed. You won't be in trouble but the company you're doing this for will. You're basically a hidden employee and they are avoiding paying tax/NI and holiday pay.
I do admin from home self employed but I have 3 clients. My work is industry specific and I have a professional qualification that is very useful in my role, I charge £20p/h.

If they're managing people I'd say £20 phr

You could try speaking to ACAS OP and outlining what’s happened – they may be able to help. They can give information and assist but cannot ‘advise’. Speaking with the CAB might be helpful too.

When I first saw - how much you would charge per hour my mind was racing!