hourly rate on manual bookkeeping

mahdi87

Hi everyone,

I started on saturday doing manual bookkeeping for 1 client on temp basis for 9 months covering maternity lady. but i havent mentioned my rate!! how much should i quote him?

many thanks

Anne Boleyn

Isn't it a bit late to quote for work that you have already started? I can't believe that money wasn't mentioned by either of you at the meeting/interview stage. I think you should clear this up before you go much further in case they are thinking of a much lower fee than you are.

I charge between £17 and £20/hour for bookkeeping (I'm in Suffolk).

mahdi87

Well I am in london and I quoted roughly £15/hr I even thought is too high!!! silly me...... £15 is ok?

Rinske

http://justanothermip.wordpress.com/2011/03/26/accountant-what-to-charge/

Monsoon did a lot of research and polls recently in the forum trying to clear it up as well. She wrote a blog about it (see above) and if you do a search, I'm sure you would be able to find quite a lot of interesting posts about it.

Have a search and a read and I'm quite sure you will find some helpful information that way!

clegganator

Rinske wrote: »

Monsoon did a lot of research and polls recently in the forum trying to clear it up as well. She wrote a blog about it

Monsoon is a she!? :O Makes the fact her interests include 'pole dancing' more understandable I suppose...

£15ph sounds reasonable and I think that it what someone we subcontracted to charged us.

Monsoon

clegganator wrote: »

Monsoon is a she!?

You thought I was a bloke?! :ohmy:

Funniest thing I've heard all day!

Monsoon

Back on topic, Rinske, thanks for the repost of my blog

£15 is the lowest I'd consider charging...

Rinske

Monsoon wrote: »

Back on topic, Rinske, thanks for the repost of my blog

No worries, I'll send you the invoice in the post!

deanshepherd

clegganator wrote: »

Monsoon is a she!?

Her picture should have given you a clue..

A very experienced bookkeeper I know charges £44 per hour (South East London). That's about the highest I have seen, apart from accountancy firms charging in-house.

clegganator

deanshepherd wrote: »

Her picture should have given you a clue..

Thought he had a thing for pin-up girls from the 50's!

Monsoon

clegganator wrote: »

Thought he had a thing for pin-up girls from the 50's!

I do! I'm just not a he :001_tt2:

Rinske

clegganator wrote: »

Thought he had a thing for pin-up girls from the 50's!

Monsoon wrote: »

I do! I'm just not a he :001_tt2:

Nothing wrong with pin-up girls from the 50's

clegganator

Rinske wrote: »

Nothing wrong with pin-up girls from the 50's

Nothing at all

deanshepherd

Well..

clegganator

deanshepherd wrote: »

Well..

And on that bombshell...

Monsoon

I think Elizabeth is cute. So there.

deanshepherd

Rinske

That one is actually quite cute...