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Donkeydaz

Hey guys.

I am am a self employed electrician from the island of Guernsey, small island in between England and France. I have been going for my self since October last year and charge £24 an hour. The normal going rate over here for an electrician is anything between £25-£40 an hour and working for someone the average wage an hour is about £16 an hour.

In the next month or so I am looking at moving over to the uk to an area south east of England, West Sussex.
I am just curious what is the average going rate for a self employed sparky and what is the average rate working for someone. I haven't looked into anything yet, it's been a kind of last minute decision to move.

Any advice will be greatly appreciated, I will be looking at working for someone when I get there and look into going self employed again.

I am recently qualified 2 years ago and hold all recent qualifications.

Many thanks.
 
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if you're young enough then OZ or NZ, I was going to go to NZ via a recruitment drive their government was having some years back,trouble was the cut off age was 42 and I'd just turned 43.Stay away from here,it's that bad even the rats are leaving.
 
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ever applied for a job where there's 1 vacancy and 500 applicants? welcome to mainland UK. ( but if your first language isn;t english, it's not worth working. you get a free house, free medical cover, child benefit to send overseas to all your illegitimate kids, immunity from prosecution as you don't understand that thieving is illegal. why bother trying.
 
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normal subbing rate is around £20/hour, but you'll be lucky to get £14. that's how bad it is.
 
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Honestly mate , lots of us have had it hard over the last few years , especially those who have to find their own work , quite a few guys have gone into other things or become specialised in order to pick up certain employed jobs , things are improving overall , but its not gonna kick in yet for us with all the foreigners around , on top of that the population is still wanting everything cheap , round myway customers are getting 5 quotes in on average , and when you quote £200 for a board change and you don't get it , and I've even had customers who want to come down the wholesalers with me or they've got the screwfix catalogue on the table when you go to quote , so its gonna be a while yet before we see anything like before ..
 
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that didn't go far enough, IMO, but it's a start. this should be broadcast to all the scams that accept these short course wonders as competent.
 
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Oh god not good. I do fuseboard changes at the mo for £400 and get them every time. Not good when they have the wholesale books and prices.

Interesting read. I knew of these courses but nothing that u ever see over here on the rock :(
 
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Definitely, moving to the UK as the partner has a 15 year old boy and his dad is in the UK and all the misses family is UK based. Some how in have to make it work. Love her too much to walk away.
 
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£400 for a CU. i'm on the next plane . as he said before, we're losing these to the cowboys who bung them in for £150. no testing, no certs.
 
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Op we must come across like a right bunch of negative moaners, but we are not, it really is hard work here and I would sit down with you partner and have a serious discussion about whether it is the right move for you both.
 
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donkeydaz said:
the misses is moving away for personal reasons regardless so i either go with her and start a life over there with her or stay put which i really don't want to do.
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It's kind of complicated but her ex of 8 years is a psycho, met him away and she came over here to be with him. And I have been with her on the quiet for 12 months and she needs to get away from him and start her life again back home and wants it with me over there. So that's why I want to move with her.
 
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Think I would rather deal with a psycho than a Electrical Trainee
 
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