Hourly rate for this role?

[whenthelightsgoout26]

Hi all

I'm looking for some advice.

My current role is a mix of several different job roles.

So I:
-maintain the company website, adding, removing info, photos, updating any changes

-make reels and posts for social media we have one instagram and two accounts for Facebook. researching hot topics, music, photographs and coming up with ideas that link to our field of work.

-training coordinator, so I research and find new courses, book staff on to these, send out all the information to staff, make changes. Attend staff meetings and give my knowledge. Update all our training forms so all staff are on there, we have had several training platforms we use so add/remove staff from all of these.

• assess our business against standards (like an ofsted inspection),

I'm very underpaid for the work I do, majority is work from home. I haven't changed jobs as it has fitted around children, one disabled and I don't have to pay out for childcare. I have been feeling a bit undervalued with work as I do a lot, I'm always on call for issues etc. my pay certainly doesn't reflect that. As it's a mix of a job, what would you say an hourly rate would be?

It's all basic admin until you said assess the business against targets, that's skilled and expertise and brings the wage up and I would expect that job to be totally different from admin. You said it's a few roles but you should be paid more than an admin assistant £11-12/hour because you do something that requires expertise, the £18/hour sounds right to me in that case.

I work in marketing for a further education provider (I do design) but our marketing content coordinator does a similar role and is paid £24,500 per year for a full-time role. Based in Yorkshire.

A good way to think about day / hourly rates is to estimate the total cost of a full-time employee to your employer (including employers NI and pension contributions etc), then divide this by 220 (net working days after taking into account bank holidays, annual leave etc). This gives you the day rate that is cost neutral for three organisation - i.e. employing a freelancer full time is as expensive as employing a full time permanent employee.

Let's say an annual salary of £25k + on costs we're looking at just under £28k. A sensible day rate would be around £127, or around £16 per hour.

Its not much more than administrative tasks when you break it down. Even policy writing is pretty basic/generic (and I say that as someone who has to write policies as part of my role)

I agree with this.

However when it comes to paying people to do the woolly PR/social media bullshit; companies often seem to pay more than admin type jobs which can actually more difficult.

In my experience this type of job pays anywhere between £30-35k outside of London. Personally I think this is being overpaid for the complexity of the work.

I think a fair wage is about £25k

I'd say 24k full time

That is bloody low, if you take off 30% for tax etc it’s £7ph!!

I agree with this too.

But @OldTinHat you REALLY need to raise your rates - that's abysmal for a freelancer. It surely can't be worth your while by the time you've done research, writing and all the background jobs like invoicing etc.

I get paid £35/hour for this kind of work - which also includes payroll, recruitment, accounts, policies and anything else that needs to be done.
I work for a company and an industry that pays and treats its staff well.

Is holiday on top of that? No sick pay, no pension...that really is shocking!
I have to say - you are really selling yourself cheap. Even dd - who did a reception job over the summer was paid £11.45/ph and she had no experience and no knowledge of anything!

I've been looking at local gov jobs and charity jobs and pay in general is really really low compared to teaching/nursing/OT/social Work.

Your tasks are all basic admin ones (ie not skilled like payroll or accounts) so unfortunately it would be under 24k in the jobs I've been looking at.

It's 27-30k for someone who can provide advice or support or "programme office" or leas for a charity running events/programmes/etc.

Nhs admin roles doing a lot more than your list are around 24k a year...

It is actually depressing as someone with good qualifications trying to change out of teaching!

Local gov and charity jobs have always been low payers - if you want to be better paid you need to go to the private sector.

Oh absolutely I agree - but was assuming from OPs post that this might be the case - hence typical wages.

It depends how valuable you are to the company but it's not particularly skilled work.
Those things are the easy admin bits of my wider job.
In fact I've just given them to a placement student on little over minimum wage to look after. Also depends on company location.

At the end of the day, if you think you're underpaid, ask for a raise or move.

A placement student will do anything they are given - and if they are a bright spark, they'll smash it. Doesn't mean your placement student is paid properly either.

No it's not.
Current national minimum wage is £9.50.
It goes up April 2023 and those of us on it are counting down the days

@Snoreboar they have the enthusiasm usually and I've had some delightful students but they but need a LOT of supervision, guidance, (and have little life or office experience) and require full training in our processes. They rarely hit the ground running even if they're great at tic toc.

I do all of that plus statutory roles like safeguarding and get paid £11.50 an hour. Non profit

You're basically doing an admin job and generally admin jobs are busy and underpaid. Nobody has a clue how difficult they are because on the surface it all looks easy and the people you work for have never done the job themselves. They assume a task takes 5 minutes not a couple of hours.

Salary for SE would be £24k I think.

Suggest you start upskilling otherwise you will be stuck with this shit and low salary forever.

Sounds like general admin. Prob minimum wage.

You say 'South' but where in the South? Portsmouth is going to be very different to Central London for example. Plus you're working in the education sector which is always going to pay less than a big corporate. Assuming you're not London-based I would have guessed at something in the region of £20-25k so your salary doesn't seem too unreasonable to me.

If you want to increase your salary are there any big corporates you could apply to for a similar role? Or just straight admin? For the purposes of comparison, when I was working in a big listed corporate in the SE (not London but a commuter town) my friend was doing kind of a hybrid role like yours (although quite a bit more complex I think) and was on £50k. Another friend was our team secretary and was on around £40k.

I don’t have anyone training me on processes - I choose the software and design the processes - I’d assume it’s the same for the OP. But maybe I’ve misunderstood.

I charge £25ph for this, freelance. I’ve been looking for a job too, there’s one that sounds similar near me for £24k FTE.

£15 an hour? Sounds like a mix of PA and social media management.

I' say anywhere between £12 per hour outside large and capital cities to circa £16-£18 in capitals and major cities.

I forgot to add in safeguarding as I'm a higher level than everyone else for this. Im hugger level for advice and provide training in staff meetings for this prevent. Channel and fgm. £21000 is from April 2023, currently wage is £20500 at a full time rate.