roythebus wrote:
The estimated rates the guy quotes above equate to £5 per hour for one lot, and £6.25 for the one that included night rate.
This is a message I've tried to get across in other posts on here and elsewhere. If ANY cabby, hack or ph done his sums right, he'd be surprised at how little per hour they actually earn.
The proprietors know this and know that a lot(not everyone I hasten to add) do the job because they are possibly desperate to get ANY work or unable to grasp the nettle and go properly self-employed. luckily where I am there are no big forms, all small one or two car operations, but even some of those haven't got a clue about costings! Maybe I'llk start a separate thread on that when I get time.
I had a driver from another company ask me for a job recently. She told me that the other company made it so that all drivers earned the minimum wage. I asked how they did it and I could not believe the answer.
Basically they were told to work out how much they took home and divide this by the minimum wage and the answer would be the number of hours that had been worked. They were also using the wrong rate for the minimum wage.
This driver was saying that she was working around 16 hours a week but she was in fact working 50 hours per week.