https://www.freelanceinformer.com/news/new-rate-card-puts-stop-to-freelancer-exploitation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-rate-card-puts-stop-to-freelancer-exploitation Empowering the Freelance Economy Wed, 30 Aug 2023 12:21:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://www.freelanceinformer.com/news/new-rate-card-puts-stop-to-freelancer-exploitation/#comment-3728 Wed, 30 Aug 2023 12:21:43 +0000 https://www.freelanceinformer.com/?p=5447#comment-3728 I’m a director in my 50’s, which puts me into a tiny minority statistic. It has become impossible for me to get work anymore despite twenty years of high level experience. Every job I apply for has a long paragraph about what an equal opportunity employer they are, however this doesn’t seem to apply if you are white, male and middle aged. Positive discrimination has become the norm, and it is as drenched in prejudice as any perceived in the past.
I also think that charging £65 per week, per year of experience is a massive own goal. For my 20 years I can be expected to charge an additional £1300 per week. That is brilliant. But if I was an employer, I would go for someone half as experienced and far less expensive, and that it what they do! Who thought that one up?

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