Rates of pay

J.T.Agri · Oct 12, 2020

Hi,

So I am curious as to what self employed farm workers are charging or getting paid these days,
I charge £11/hr and 45p/mile for diesel whenever I am using my pickup for work going round the fields ect...

I provide a pickup that I use to do any job asked of me, 5ks worth of tools so I can take on most jobs away from the workshop and my own trailer that gets used a lot around the farm for a variety of jobs

Where I am currently working I have been doing work for them for over 10 years,
I am mostly a yard based worker around the stores, potato wash and grading facility but I do a lot of loader and forklift work too
I do most of the soil sampling across the fields, I go and do all the sample digging of the potato crops before harvest and clocked up over 1500 miles in the weeks before harvest doing this

I cover for the store manager when he has weekends off or goes on holiday

I have a lot of equipment experience and have run potato planters and other machinery,

So what should I be charging as I feel like I’m not compensating for my expenses but don’t want to be undercut by someone else if I put my rates up

Kind regards

Jordan

Robt · Oct 12, 2020

£11 per hour... No wonder you have been with your current employer for 10 years!. You are seriously under selling yourself. After your costs what do you have left per hour? £8. I take it you dont get holiday or sick pay. Do you charge the same for weekends?
Id say you should be on £15 per hour at the very least!. You would get £20 per hour as a forkie on a building site for comparrison. It would drive you made at just how slow most sites are but it gives you an idea of your worth.

Breckland Boy · Oct 12, 2020

£200/day minimum.
Extra for unsociable hours and weekends

HarryB97 · Oct 12, 2020

Most people around here (Oxford) are £12.50-£15 an hour, but there are plenty doing it for less than that!

fieldfarmer · Oct 12, 2020

Breckland Boy said:
£200/day minimum.
Extra for unsociable hours and weekends

Is that's what you pay your guys or what you are paid?

Breckland Boy · Oct 12, 2020

If working contract yes

fieldfarmer · Oct 12, 2020

Breckland Boy said:
If working contract yes

Please explain, you charge £200 day rate to one farmer every day?

Breckland Boy · Oct 12, 2020

No,
If I go off farm and work else where I would charge approx £200 for a day.
Of course it depends on what I am doing and how many machines/ tools are required.

serf · Oct 12, 2020

HarryB97 said:
Most people around here are £12.50-£15 an hour, but there are plenty doing it for less than that!

Here ??

Derrick Hughes · Oct 12, 2020

Are you sure you should not be employed?

kiwi pom · Oct 12, 2020

If you put your rates up will they pay it or just move on from you?

From what you describe you're an employee so if you spend all your time there, ask to be taken on full time with a proper contract with a tool and vehicle allowance. Hourly not salary and you should end up a lot better off.

tepapa · Oct 12, 2020

Is this the only farm you work on or just one of the farms you do work for?

tepapa · Oct 12, 2020

If your not charging £15/hour self employed go and work in a supermarket you'll be better off.

Werzle · Oct 12, 2020

Great many self employed trailer jockeys and general farm workers are on a tenner, all very well people quoting £15-18/hr but the worker would be earning more than the farmer.

Norfolk Olly · Oct 12, 2020

£11 does sound rather low, on the books basic pay for 39 hours is around that, but it can vary on region

Norfolk Olly · Oct 12, 2020

Werzle said:
Great many self employed trailer jockeys and general farm workers are on a tenner, all very well people quoting £15-18/hr but the worker would be earning more than the farmer.

Theres plenty hauling maize with a 100k tractor on that sort of figure

Werzle · Oct 12, 2020

tepapa said:
If your not charging £15/hour self employed go and work in a supermarket you'll be better off.

Most of those jobs are minimum wage on zero hour contracts. Think i would prefer a cosy cab on a tenner doing 60-70hrs and £600-700+/ week

ollie989898 · Oct 12, 2020

This working for one business and pretending to be self employed is BS and it needs to stop. Tax man should be sorting this, it's just a way for employers to dodge NI contributions.

I'm a complete idiot and I can earn £10/hour employed doing farm work just because I know how to turn up on time. People playing the self employed game for that aren't doing themselves any favours.

serf · Oct 12, 2020

Werzle said:
Great many self employed trailer jockeys and general farm workers are on a tenner, all very well people quoting £15-18/hr but the worker would be earning more than the farmer.

Yes ,^^^ these numbers get banded about , go have a go getting these prices working big hours , cloud cuckoo ! As for the shelf stacking, that sounds fun !

Werzle · Oct 12, 2020

slim shiny said:
Theres plenty hauling maize with a 100k tractor on that sort of figure

Tractor and man minus fuel? crazy.

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100% I’ve had enough of farming!

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