Wednesday, 14 July, 2010 | Tagged in Rates, Running Your Own Business | Written by Crackerjacks
The recent Court of Appeal ruling in the Penny and Hooper case last month has provided a useful lesson for contractors in NZ.
Inland Revenue has also provided some guidance on how they intend to apply this case in the Revenue Alert “Diverting personal services income by structuring revenue earning activities through an associated entity [...]
Wednesday, 30 June, 2010 | Tagged in Rates | Written by Kristen Barrett
It can be difficult to define the hourly rate for a contractor, especially when all you’ve got to work with is the equivalent permanent salary.
So we’ve got a handy formula for you to work from when undertaking this task. This is an extract from the Crackerjacks How to Guide for Contracting. Follow this link to [...]
Thursday, 4 March, 2010 | Tagged in Rates | Written by Kristen Barrett
Have your rate expectations changed since you joined Crackerjacks?
In three weeks we will be releasing the National Professional Contracting Rates Guide, so it is very important your rates on Crackerjacks are current. This information is used to help create the guide, simply log in, select the Your Profile tab and Rates, to ensure that [...]
Monday, 30 November, 2009 | Tagged in Rates | Written by Crackerjacks
By David Watson
Click here for the full article on Computerworld
IT contractors are more optimistic about future pay rates than their counterparts in many other professions, according to a survey by specialist contract staffing provider Crackerjacks.
The survey, carried out in September, looked at contractors in a range of occupations, including IT. A total of 1053 IT [...]
Tuesday, 3 November, 2009 | Tagged in Business, Media, Rates | Written by Kristen Barrett
As reported on NZI Business recently, wage expectations for Accounting and IT contractors have increased between 4% to 6% since March this year. But this optimism was not experienced in the Sales, Marketing or Management professions, with wage expectations actually decreasing in these areas.
View video – Wage expectations
For more information on the Crackerjacks professional contracting [...]
Tuesday, 1 July, 2008 | Tagged in Contractors, Rates | Written by Crackerjacks
More and more of us are taking up the opportunity to manage our own careers on our own terms.
One of the great things about contracting through Crackerjacks is that you get to determine what you’ll work for. In other words – you get to set your own rate. While this will depend largely on market [...]
