What is your hourly rate as a self employed electrician? (2024-25)

[UNG]

Of course it depends what your doing.if your sub contracting 40 hours a week then a reduced rate is perfectly fine .

There is a reduced rate and a sub economic rate and sub contracting comes with a cost over and above earning a wage, 5 - 6 years ago the going rate for a subby was around £200/10 hr day and there are still companies offering that now and nobody seems to realise the wage rates at Aldi & Lidl are catching up and come with far less responsibility and risk. As a self employed electrician earning £18/hr once all the overheads are accounted for stacking supermarket shelves would in real terms probably pay better

I suppose it comes down to expectation on the part of the employer and employee
Looking at job adverts for electricians and many offer no wage or salary info and of those that do many are offering rates that in no way properly reward the employee for what the employers job description expects

 

[sheppertonspark]

Not exactly "self employed" but a small business. We try to work on a quoted price mostly but our daywork rate is £72.00 inc. VAT. I have to say we struggle to make ends meet at this rate after overheads. I can't see how anyone could work for less than £50.00 if they are doing things the right way, i.e. insurance, memberships, assessments, training.
Fully expecting to be called greedy !!

 

[Jock from the north]

Not exactly "self employed" but a small business. We try to work on a quoted price mostly but our daywork rate is £72.00 inc. VAT. I have to say we struggle to make ends meet at this rate after overheads. I can't see how anyone could work for less than £50.00 if they are doing things the right way, i.e. insurance, memberships, assessments, training.
Fully expecting to be called greedy !!

Is that 72 per hour plus vat

 

[sheppertonspark]

Is that 72 per hour plus vat

Inclusive Jock.

 

[Brian Taylor]

Is that 72 per hour plus vat

Well I guess from the previous posts that these high rates are possible for some. To a very large extent I'm thinking that it depends on your skills and what sort of work you carry out. I get the impression that industrial jobs command a better rate than domestic, and as some have stated, industry is more willing to pay than the domestic sector. It depends where your talents are....for my part(apart from college work) I have never been involved with 3phase installations and would baulk at accepting such work....likewise construction sites..never worked on them and would not know what I was doing. But by the same thinking I guess many would not want to engage in domestic work with all it's problems eg the requirements to be ultra clean, ultra polite and to be mindful of people's possessions at all times. My work is what might be described as small in and out jobs, replace a damaged socket or switch or replacement of a lighting fitting....maybe half a day at most so as you might imagine charging 30,40 or 50 pounds an hour would not get me too many recommendations....I am dealing with members of the public who have (particularly in the current climate) very restricted budgets, indeed the incidents of non payment have increased over the last 12 months, and it's not really worth persuading anyone for a £20 invoice
Any further advice as to how I can increase money coming in would be welcome but as I have stated my experience is limited to small domestic works and as I'm not Part P registered I don't think I'm allowed to do rewires.