£32,000 per annum employed - how much would be the hourly rate? Help please

[zookeeper]

My sister is self employed but effectively works for one firm. If the firm employed her the going rate would be £32,000 per annum with the usual holiday benefits etc.

she wants to work 2 days a week and her employer is offering 320 an hour. Does this seem reasonable?
All ideas/thoughts welcome

that should be £20 per hour!

Yes that seems reasonable. The hourly rate on that would be around £17.50 (ish)

Based on a 37.5 hour week £20 ph works out as £39000. Not a lot really bearing in mind she is not getting paid holiday, benefits etc...

Just to add, it sounds as though she may not really self-employed, see
here
If so, her employer are on dodgy ground, and should employ her properly, working in the way it sounds as though she does, she is entitled to employment rights and she shouldn't be denied them...

well, you usually allow 6 weeks for sick pay, plus 5.5 (?) weeks for holiday pay, so the calculation would be 32,000 divided by 40.5 divided by however many hours she usually works in a week. so for a 40 hour week it would be £19.75.

so £20 would be about right unless she works a short day?

rights including paid holiday, access to pension, unfair dismissal, redundancy, maternity pay & leave etc etc etc...

I have come across a situation before where I company I did some work with were using 'consultants', but based on the definition I linked to, they were not consultants at all, they were employees. I was trying to sort this out, when one of them got pregnant and claimed employed status and maternity pay etc.
She may not want to get pg of course, but there are other benefits as well.

But if you are self-employed you would expect a premium to cover not only lack of holiday pay but also lack of other benefits, eg pension, and lack of security of employment.
There was a thread a while ago about what percentage should be added to the going rate for a job, will have a look.

thanks for your comments - I will pass them on

this thread might be handy zookeeper

Is there not a problem for your sister in being self employed but working essentially for one firm? I thought the IR had come down on this pretty hard and made it effectively impossible?

absolutely right janinlondon, sounds as though she is not self-employed at all. For anyone else in a similar situation who is not sure of their status, or what it should be the link I attached below is a handy IR thingy which gives you a good definition and questions to ask yourself to determine whether or not you are self-employed.