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How much should I charge?

(31 Posts)
Largolass Tue 26-Sept-17 13:34:50

For simple bookkeeping such as this sounds £15 per hour is more than adequate.

Ilovecheese Mon 25-Sept-17 15:55:30

I would also say £20 - 40 per hour, depending on where you live. But make sure you time yourself and charge for all your time.

tanith Mon 25-Sept-17 15:31:13

I am really picking a figure out of the air here but £20/30 an hour sounds reasonable as you be using your own home to do the work. I'm sure the accountant will be charging more than £100 per hour .

Smurf52 Mon 25-Sept-17 15:05:02

I think he means regularly say monthly?

tanith Mon 25-Sept-17 14:25:28

Depends on whether it's going to be a once a year sort out or regular, say monthly.

Smurf52 Mon 25-Sept-17 14:15:48

The letting agent for my property employs a plumber to see to their rentals. He came to service my boiler and we got chatting. I told him I have recently retired but miss the buzz of keeping busy at work.

He told me he is dyslexic and once a year he gives his accountant carrier bags of his paperwork to sort out. He asked if I would like to do his paperwork and put his basic accounts in order regularly so his accountant won't charge him extra to do this. He is happy to pay me to do this.

Years ago I used to do my plumber ex husband's accounts using a Simplex accounts book until he moved to Sage and did it himself so I am familiar with this.

My dilemma is how much to charge him by the hour? Does anyone also do this sort of thing and how much do you charge?