I am fairly confident that when potential clients receive information packs or ask what a Virtual Assistants hourly rate is their initial thought is how much?!
My hourly rate is a reflection of my knowledge & experience. You may think my rate seems a little high, but if you use my services then you only pay for the time that I am working for you & I can fit quite a bit into an hour.
Let’s look at the comparison to employing your own PA – this would be somebody with experience & knowledge that you could rely upon & turn to in a time of crisis.
The average salary for a PA in the UK is £27,000 according to the Reed website. So if you employ them for 35 hours a week that’s £14.83 per hour – Looking at this figure I agree my hourly rate is expensive.
Don’t forget you also have to pay Employer’s national insurance contributions. That’s 13.8% on anything over £7488 a year (2013). So realistically you are paying £16.88 an hour.
Let’s say you will give them 28 days holiday (including stats) & I’ll use the DWP average of 5 days sick a year. This makes a total of 33 days you are paying them for doing absolutely nothing.
This year there are 253 working days but actually your employee may only work 220 of those days, which takes their cost up to £19.95 per hour.
Of those 220 days your employee will not be working solidly for 7 hours a day, there are those things that take them away from their desk, tea rounds, toilet breaks, conversations with you & other members of staff. I think it’s fair to say that your employee would realistically only spend 6 hours a day actually working. Here comes the fun part, for those 6 hours’ of work you are actually paying them £23.27 per hour. That changes the equation doesn’t it?
This calculation doesn’t take into account the additional costs involved with employing somebody in your office, such as PC, pension, training, insurance, software licenses, coffee & even pens, the list could go on.
I ‘m hoping that by now you can see the benefits associated with working with a Virtual Assistant, who you can hire for a small amount of time, who charges by the hour, stops the timer if she is not working on a task for you & even provides her own coffee.
There are no charges for, licenses, NI contributions or office equipment to name a few.
Do you still think my hourly rate is expensive?
If you would like to find out more about the services I offer, or a free consultation please contact me by any of the means below.
E: Rachel@rhva.co.uk
T: 0843 8860136
M: 07834 166320
W: www.rhva.co.uk