So what's the difference between a subby and an employee......
Your subby takes on a job for a national chain of shops - this job has been passed down the line from a "national" where supposedly its price is - lets say £50 - the subby at the end of the line get £7 (as already posted) - thats all he/she gets end of
Now your PAYE worker is working away for a wage p/h and in the example it was £3 from a £10 semi - well that isn't the case at all - for a start they are getting 28 days holiday p/a (8 hr day = 224 hrs) so on top of their £3 they get £2,240 per year without lifting a finger - they also don't deal with any costs - van, fuel, admin, taxes, advertising etc... - all this passes then by
The poor old self employed subby - has all this to take out of that £7 - and if he misses the clean gats nothing, and nothing travelling from job to job where the employee is being paid to drive from stop to stop - and of course the subby might have to wait 60 or 90 days for his money....
Now for the record -
I don't pay £10 - in fact in this area I pay better than 50% of businesses around here by 25% or more - this includes factory workers, shop workers, health carers, security people and all the season stuff that goes with the seaside - and the hours are pretty standard not late/night shifts OR Saturday/sunday working.
The guys also on top of an hourly rate a % bonus - this usually = to £1.25 p/h for regular window work and for our specialised stuff getting upwards of £100 notes
Not bad going for what is a relatively unskilled job
Darran