mwg 
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I think I get charged out to clients at £21 an hour. 
 
He could put my client fee up to £25 an hour and pay me £10 an hour quite easily whilst still making profit and covering any costs! I reckon anyway...
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a_j_mair 
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quote: Originally posted by Bart 
quote: Originally posted by a_j_mair 
i have just worked out £10ph is 18.5k 
sounds good enough to me 
 
   
 
Ask for 20k. 
 
Are you salaried? sounds like you do short hours to! 
Im contracted 8-5pm, but its usually 7.15 till 5.15 
   
 
yes salary, paid every week though   
work from 9-5 mon-thurs half hour for lunch 
fri is 9-3.30 and 1 hr for lunch 
 
i am pretty confident i will get what i ask for
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Brett 
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You really wanna work through your own limited company like me, i pay about 15% tax  
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Jules S 
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quote: Originally posted by loafofbrett 
You really wanna work through your own limited company like me, i pay about 15% tax   
   
 
Not 18% then   
 
So what do you do exactly?
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ed 
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If you were to get into doing Cosmos testing then you could earn £500 a day.
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Brett 
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If you were a planner for the MOD you can get £100 an hour
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ed 
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Is that CAD work though?
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Brett 
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quote: Originally posted by ed 
Is that CAD work though? 
   
 
lol no, but still engineering none the less
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Tiesto 
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CAD technician for Consulting Engineers. 
 
HNC in Civil Engineering - 3.5 years experience. 
 
Earn £14k   
 
Also use MicroDrainage & PDS (Moss to some), basically do all engineering deisgn work on the civl side, and just give it over to the MD to check & issue. Obviously have meetings with adopting authorites, clients, site enigneers etc. 
 
Think im underpaid   
 
BTW: My charge out rate for clients is £50 an hour! 
 
[Edited on 17-11-2006 by Tiesto]
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Bart 
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tiesto you are massively underpaid.. £25k minimum for your job id expect. i rarely go to site, or do the before hand work. all the fine details are given to me by a project manager. im just a cad techy. 
 
but again, depends on area. 
 
where do you live? what your doing on that wage, we'd happily pay you £25k  
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Mav 3000 
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You need to be freelance to get good money - set yourself up and join an agency specialising in supplying the industry.
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broster 
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Anyone on here a CAD technician using AutoCAD? 
 
use both autocad and solid work 
 
What qualifications do you have? 
 
BSc Engineering(Hons) 
 
 How big a company do you work for? 
 
small number of employees but have worked for a massive firm and a medium firm 
 
After an idea on how much people are getting paid for this sort of work aswell if people dont mind putting it up on here that is. 
 
used ot get paid alot more than i do now 
 
I've just got my HNC in Civil Engineering, also have an ONC in Building Studies and a City & Guilds in AutoCAD so trying to work out what a reasonable wage would be for me... 
 
edit - u2u me if you dont want to discuss on here. 
 
Thanks   
 
money wise depends on how good you are and how quick you are!
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corsa120 
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i have done my onc/hnc in electro/mechanical engineering and btec in autocad and somat else 4got name but i earn basic 18.5k but last year i took home 28k with overtime/bonus's
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ed 
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Broster, you could be making £500 a day doing Cosmos testing in Solidworks. Apparently there is no one who can do it and they are crying out for people to come and work for them!
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Jules S 
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quote: Originally posted by ed 
Broster, you could be making £500 a day doing Cosmos testing in Solidworks. Apparently there is no one who can do it and they are crying out for people to come and work for them! 
   
 
You're joking right Ed? 
 
Thats 130k a year, I doubt the programmers get that  
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ed 
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So I was told a few days ago.
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Jules S 
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Not trying to argue mate.. 
 
But 130k??? 
 
I think somebody has told you a bit of a porkie there   
 
I cant vouch for other disciplines, but in the architectural field I pay technologists between 25-27k...they need to work alone without supervision for that. 
 
As`for 'speed' = more pay, that's a bit of a myth tbh 
 
Sure they (speedy people) are out there...but speed usually equals a shite job   
 
Regarding loafabrets comment about tracers getting £25/h....I can only imagine he was posting from his laptop on the planet mars network  
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ed 
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Does seem a lot. Might have been a slight exaggeration. But there is a shit load of money in that field. Also, i'm not talking about being some monkey sitting at a desk putting peoples drawings into computers. This is specialist testing and modification to designs to ensure the final parts don't break, are aerodynamic, or flow fluids correctly. One example is I am in the process of drawing a fuel injector to see if I can get the spray pattern right. Also, the company who do this are paying students £19k this year to do a placement with them, and they are under no obligation to pay them anything - most students get about £10k for  thier placement...
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Tiesto 
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quote: Originally posted by Bart 
tiesto you are massively underpaid.. £25k minimum for your job id expect. i rarely go to site, or do the before hand work. all the fine details are given to me by a project manager. im just a cad techy. 
 
but again, depends on area. 
 
where do you live? what your doing on that wage, we'd happily pay you £25k   
   
 
Live in the Midlands, suppose that says it all.
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BabyBlade 
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maybe thats £500 a day, but limited to one day a week   
 
probably not though but that would be an awesome job!
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broster 
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when i did my gap year i got paid a decent amount.  
 
thing is as much as i dont mind doing solid works drawings, sitting behind a desk all day every day doing it dosen't apeal to me.  
 
the money is tempting tho! 
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Colin 
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quote: Originally posted by broster 
 
thing is as much as i dont mind doing solid works drawings, sitting behind a desk all day every day doing it dosen't apeal to me.  
 
   
 
Thats why I got out of my surveyors job, hated being stuck in an office for 9.5hrs+ a day. 
 
Also some of the expected wages for someone with very little experience is laughable!! 
 
[Edited on 19-11-2006 by Colin]
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ed 
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I think I'll do it for about 4 years after uni... Then fuck off and spend all the cash  
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