I finished teaching and senior leadership over a year ago after 31 years and set up a consultancy business. I’ve been lucky enough to be taken on as a freelancer for an independent education company doing project work .
One of our clients is a big US company and they’ve asked 4 of us to go over in the new year for 5 days’ work and around 4 days travel/acclimatising. I now need to negotiate a fee with my company. They’ve been paid an overall contract fee that includes all travel, expenses and staff wages.
After so many years in the public sector I’m still really awkward about charging which I know I need to get over. When I asked ChatGPT it said I should charge 25% more than usual on the work days because it’s long haul but 60% of my usual fees on non-work days. Is this usual?
I know I should be charging ‘what I think I’m worth’ and I’m in the private sector now but please remember I’m used to having to pay for my own gluesticks so it’s all still alien to me! Any help/advice gratefully received.