Any bookeepers out there, just been offered a job, what do you charge???????

[CarGirl]

Someone has offered me to manual small accounts so basically basic bookeeper taking upto trial balance. What do you earn/charge for doing this and where do you live - I'm in the SE?

TBH it's convenient, local & enjoy it & it's not worth me earning a great deal as it affects Tax credits etc etc

Thank you

i live in the SE and charge £15 per hour

thank you, if I were back at work (am on career break) I would be on £14.10 plus final salary pension so very similar (took out holiday)

Actually forgot about bank holidays £14.36 plus pension

will you be self employed or employed? employed is generally less pay I think. Don't forget if you're self employed you'll need to register with HMRC and do a tax return each year(sorry if you know this already)

I charge £15 per hour so that I end up with £12 after tax(roughly!) I'm also employed as an accountant, doing SE work in my 'spare' time and I get paid less from my employed work. Am kinda hoping to build up my SE so that maybe one day I can just do that.

Self empoyed, the rate I worked out was my gross salary when employed divided by the actual hours I worked per year for the salary IYSWIM. Yes tax return I doubt I would earn enough to pay tax but as I'm paying out for childcare anyway to earn some money would be good!

but your employed wage would be for holidays too, remember being SE you aren't paid for them, meaning the salary is higher to even it all out(that's the way I look at it!)

To work out my employed per hour rate I do salary divided by hours, so for me 15 x 52 (I do 15 hours per week), because you are paid holiday/bank holidays.

Not that this makes much difference tbh

the tax return isn't that scary anymore. They do a simplified version for people with simple earnings and it's quite short.

I did employed salary divided by hours actually worked so 52 weeks - 6.5 leave weaves - week bank holidays x 36 hours per week and that came to £14 something as the hourly rate I actually earn IYSWIM????

i do swym I have my payroll hat on though!