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A daily rate is usually for a "professional day" and not prorated. If they're paying £600 and up, you're going to be going 60+ hour weeks.

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This is simply not true and just something permies make up.

Yes to be honest I've been treated far better and been able to make much bigger changes within code and organisations as a contractor than I ever could as a permanent person. The money is nice but it's just a bonus to being able to build great things.

Same here, but my problem is that you don't have the opportunity to learn things on contract jobs.

Company doesn't invest in your ability to learn and adapt, it only invests in your ability to solve that specific problem. In my experience.

You're half right. The rate is for a professional day, and even as a contractor in banking the last time I did a 60+ week was a one-off working on overnight deployments.

So are you saying that if you did 70 hours over 6 days, you get paid the same as if you worked 40 hours over 5 days?

If I worked 70 hours over 6 days, I'd get paid for 6 days. However, if I worked 70 hours over 6 days for more than a week or two, I'd try and renegotiate my rate.

Good catch; I conflated the # of days. Thanks for clarifying!

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