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Hourly rate for a qualified accountant?

  • 04-02-2010 5:17pm
    #1
    Pat McGhee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 345 ✭✭


    Hi all,

    A colleague of mine is a qualified accountant, she's self employed & does the accounts for a number of companies rather than working for a place only.

    She was charging €20 per hour but recently upped her rate to €25 - is this reasonable? My boss seems to think not, but then again he is a tight aul f*cker so I'm not sure. I plan to do some independent research but just wondered if there were any other accountants here who could shed some light....

    Many thanks!
    P


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  • #2
    tenchi-fan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,339 ✭✭✭tenchi-fan


    If she's not a paye worker €20 an hour isn't exactly a lot! She has to pay her expenses, tax and pension contributions and she doesn't have the comfort of a stable job (holiday pay, redundancy, sick pay).

    She might come in for 4 hours, two mornings a week and get all the work done - whereas someone else might milk 3 days out of the same job.

    It really depends on how much work shes doing and whether it's high skilled work. A tax consultant could charge €100 an hour but could save the company thousands.


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