Highest Hourly Rate?

[PetrolTed]

I just got a communication from some receivers of a company that went bust last year. In the breakdown of costs the 1.2 hours of time spent by a director of the company on preparing the paperwork was charged at £292 per hour!!

Can anyone beat that?

[davidd]

My Lawyer.....

I spent three months being billed out to three clients at the same time so I was bringing in a fair bit more than that (to the company you must understand).

D.

[bga]

Partners in my firm (Large Accountancy) can be charged at up to £600 per hour

[m-five]

A certain SVP at the management consultancy I work for was billed to the client at £3k for the hour he was on site!

[Plotloss]

£300 an hour plus all expenses is pretty standard in my game (to clients) on the average 9 month install.

[craigw]

I had an alarm engineer who came to my house, did nothing, left after 3 minutes and sent us a bill for £105.75

Funnily enough I havent paid.

[stevieb]

Old employer charged £1000 pound per hour for a spacecraft part that needed to be installed....

[marcos maniac]

And there was me thinking that I had done well charging a Client £66 an hour to sit on my arse for 12 hours and do nothing.

[Broccers]

marcos maniac said:

And there was me thinking that I had done well charging a Client £66 an hour to sit on my arse for 12 hours and do nothing.

Sounds like a typical IT job

[james_j]

In terms of money received per hour, I expect some revenue camera organisations do pretty well.

[shadowninja]

I heard about some silicon graphics machine that can have the performance increased for a charge of £25k... engineer comes out and sticks a screwdriver in the back to rotate a screw. (or is this an urban myth?)

[Marshy]

Sounds like an update on the old urban myth. In the days of big iron, it was alleged that upgrades would involved an expensive engineer on site, who would, when not under supervision, remove a board, change a link, then slam it back in.

$lots.

[brumster]

shadowninja said:

I heard about some silicon graphics machine that can have the performance increased for a charge of £25k... engineer comes out and sticks a screwdriver in the back to rotate a screw. (or is this an urban myth?)

Certainly the old IBM mainframes used to use this method - you bought a more or less standard machine from IBM and then you purchased what was effectively CPU cycles - you wanted more, and engineer came and did pretty much that.

[Wacky Racer]

Well Roy Keane plays a couple of games a week (at most), plus 2 hours training four days a week, total eleven hours "work" and earns £90,000pw, ( not including any sponsorship or promotion work) which equates to £8181.81p per hour.......

Not bad for kicking a ball around.......

And this is chicken feed, compared to some American basketball and baseball stars.........

Schumacher earns around 1.5 million pounds per two hour race....



>> Edited by Wacky Racer on Wednesday 21st January 21:21

[polar_ben]

Public speaking is where it's at.

My average fee broke into four figures last year, and I'm a bargain basement speaker

[minimax]

I am professionally qualified, have been promoted 3 times, give advice affecting peoples lives every day, and have only just gone up to £7 p/h. and people consider me well paid! bugger. just got to hold out until I'm a barrister, then hopefully after apprenticeship I'll be able to compete! (might even drag this thread up!)

[john75]

Diego Maradona was said to have got £1,000 a minute when playing in the 1988 FA 100 years match.

[xsaravtr]

Just read in the paper that Bill Gates has been given a knight-hood...

Trying to find news story online

www.ananova.com/business/story/sm_859469.html

>> Edited by xsaravtr on Monday 26th January 21:56

>> Edited by xsaravtr on Monday 26th January 21:57

[wrinkly]

Slightly off topic, but many years ago, did some design work for a blue chip company. Sent in my invoice and it was returned with the comment that they expected to pay a top professional rate for design, would I re-invoice. Did so at 3 times my normal rate, invoice was promptly paid. Client in question was passing on my costs with mark-up. Never looked back since.

[Antwerpman]

I agree with Polar Ben, public speakers seem to mint it in. Bill Clinton and the likes must be something like 30K and hour (based upon what I heard he was paid for a 1/2 hour speach here in ANtwerp) PLUS expenses