average wage of a sparks in the current climate

[egginyourface]

evening all,,

this is a little exercise to figure out the average wage of a sparky in the current climate.

could you please post your day rate, years of experience, wether u have a van tools etc?

and please state whether you work in domestic, commercial or industrial sector


to get the ball rolling i sub for a sparks who gets regular work @£120 per day.

i have a van power tools and 5 years experience

 

[Delboy247]

Hi egg Im in London selfemployed with 10 years experence own van and tools I also get regular work company gives me price work or day rate for about 150 a day not sure what the going rate is.

 

[Delboy247]

Hi egg Im in London selfemployed with 10 years experence own van and tools I also get regular work company gives me price work or day rate for about 150 a day not sure what the going rate is.

End of the day it's what your happy with.

 

[egginyourface]

thanks delboy, i appreciate your sharing in the exercise...

looks like the other members are unemployed

 

[wawnetiger]

Employed Approved sparks. Van and phone. £14.50 flat rate monday to friday, 1.5 on saturdays and sundays. been the same for 24 months with no increase in sight

 

[Delboy247]

Interesting what would be more intersting people could state where there from in the uk.

 

[Octopus]

Unemployed or more likely don't want to disclose their rate(s). I too won't be disclosing my rate!

 

[egginyourface]

thanks for the contribution wawnetiger,,,

hes from hull east yorkshire delboy

 

[egginyourface]

its fine, you dont need to if you dont want to.

just trying to get a picture of whats available out there.

i know a couple of sparks who sub for a local electrician. he offered them £800 CASH to rewire like for like a 3 bed room house. they did it in 4 days. so it left them with £400 each!! out of that they had to pay about £60.00 to get there and another £100 on food to keep themselves going.

then theres another sparks i know who reckons he wont get out of bed for less than £250 a day!!

whats going on out there??

 

[johnboy6083]

I work on min 500 a week net. I sometimes sub for a bloke and charge him 150 per day local or 200 if further afield/ london ect. I'm in Rochester, kent. I do mainly industrial and commercial via agency but also do domestic via a mate. For agencies I only supply hand tools, but when subbing for my mate, also supply tester and power tools and occasionally materials (added to dayrate).

 

[cbw]

£250.00 per day sounds reasonable.

I am charging £200.00 for fully qualified and £100.00 for apprentice.

£35.00/ hr for qualified or £17.50/hr for apprentice.

Both me and **** are qualified, gold card holder and I have a good apprentice working for me.

I am mainly domestic, a little commercial and some agricultural, I am currently booking work for late January but then have March, April and May fully booked on a large development.

I have attached a copy of my terms/rates which I send with every quote.
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[egginyourface]

cheers johnny boy,

how many years experience do you have?? have your rates dropped or can you say havent been affected

 

[johnboy6083]

Bear in mind that I work under others insurance and am not part of a scam. Cbw sounds about right for a bona fide company. How much do you pay your sparks cbwif you don't mind sharing?

 

[Johno]

I am self employed in the north west and get all my own work. I have van tools, testers, etc, part p, ins, accountant, etc.

I generally look for £140 a day, but just earn as much as i can get away with. Some weeks £1000+ and others struggle to make anything!

 

[johnboy6083]

I've got 5 years exp and haven't really been affected by recession yet. But jobs are harder to come by, and it's more important than ever to keep tickets up to date and to get brilliant references.

 

[egginyourface]

has your rates been affected by recession cbw

 

[Bright Sparks]

I often hire in extra contractors between 18-25 per hour, they are self employed and supply own tools and van (but some except a day rate of between 100-150 for larger projects) . Although I have heard of down to 15 and some 'companies' wanting 60+ per hour, due to their 'overheads'. London and home counties area.

 

[Amp David]

its fine, you dont need to if you dont want to.

just trying to get a picture of whats available out there.

i know a couple of sparks who sub for a local electrician. he offered them £800 CASH to rewire like for like a 3 bed room house. they did it in 4 days. so it left them with £400 each!! out of that they had to pay about £60.00 to get there and another £100 on food to keep themselves going.

then theres another sparks i know who reckons he wont get out of bed for less than £250 a day!!

whats going on out there??

He'll be the guy sat at home all week then, moaning theres no work around

 

[mogga]

I saw a couple of jobs on sites recently £8 ph another was £9 ph council job wanting every qualification under the sun n offering what worked out to be £9.50ph 5days from 7 so you dont get double time sundays as every day is treated the same CHANCERS

 

[adamsparx]

£150 per day with 7 days available if i want. This is for testing and supplying my own tester i have had a good run of constant work this year but i know its dire out there, i had an agency call me and and offer me £12 per hour 8 hours a day, WHAT ARE THESE PEOPLE ON !

It does make me laugh, sparx have to keep on updating courses (part p 17th edition etc etc) insurances, tools and dangerous work for what i would say is a low wage.