Chloe Wilkinson posted an update on the TM Hub

Dear TV Friends, this may be slightly premature for the current state of affairs, but I have a question about rates? I am weighing up the pros and cons of becoming self-employed and looking at the rate checker here and BECTU's card I must admit I am a little confused.

Firstly, unless you are self-employed surely your rate is always now with holiday pay, which is added on with you NI contributions? So the PAYE rate you give is sort of like the base rate with holiday pay and NI then added on by the company? BUT, if this is the case then when you become self-employed should you be working out this final figure? Because in all honesty you're doing yourself a injustice otherwise saying the same figure as before. AND, does anyone have that calculation?

Secondly, are BECTU's rates for PAYE and self-employed? For tax reasons I know at a certain point you can no-longer be PAYE, but again with the questions above this seems a little oversimplified.

All help much appreciated!

Sarah Lee

@ChloeWilkinson I’m not sure about the bectu ratecard but do you know about the TalentManager ratechecker?

1 year ago

Amanda Moran

For rates look on the BECTU website for the BECTU/PACT rate card for your job title as a guide. Holiday pay is usually on top of your rate, and is currently 12.07%. David Thomas gives great advice for people setting up as self-employed and runs great, easy to understand seminars, you can also contact him directly with any questions. https://davidthomasmedia.com. He's incredibly helpful and will make sense of it all for you!

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Chloe Wilkinson

@ChloeWilkinson thank you both. I’ll have a look at David’s advice too. It was actually the rate checker where I started to question it, because they seem so widely different for Producers with one person being paid £850 to another £1500 per week. Obviously, this takes no account of other factors i.e experience, but the only thing I could think that would be the reason for so much difference was one was PAYE and the other self-employed.

@ChloeWilkinson with the ratechecker you can input w or without hp as well as other factors like whether it’s for daytime or prime time but maybe when you are on the other end looking at the averages or doesn’t let you sort accordingly?

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@ChloeWilkinson no unfortunately not, which from my understanding of it possibly gives a false impression: £850 PAYE, as little as that sounds for a Producer, is not the same as £850 self employed. Maybe the with or without holiday pay is where you can work out which is PAYE 🤔

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