Which should I choose £16.50 per hour self emp or £14 emp

sadie222

I am going for a job which offers £16.50 per hour self employed or £14 employed, the job is for 24 hours a week, can somebody please tell me which I should go for please (I understand self employed means form filling)

jobbingmusician

Employed - you get 5.6 weeks of paid holiday a year. So about 10%. Plus paid sick leave (possibly?) and other perks.

Self employed - potentially a bit less tax? Form filling and admin - maybe up to half a day a week? (5%)


My feeling from these rough figures is that the margin between £14 and £16.50 is not big enough to make SE worth it.

Comms69

sadie222 wrote: »

I am going for a job which offers £16.50 per hour self employed or £14 employed, the job is for 24 hours a week, can somebody please tell me which I should go for please (I understand self employed means form filling)

Surely employed everytime.


The difference is marginal. it may appear to be £60 a week. But considering that annual leave would make up around half that, + SSP, and eventually full employment rights....

sadie222

Many Thanks for your help, greatly appriciated

Nookie5

If your employer has a pension contribution scheme that you can sign up to after probation then it's a no brainer. For self-employed, you have to arrange for your own private pension scheme or look at claiming state pension when you retire.

Marcon

Very unlikely that you genuinely have a choice. It's a matter for HMRC, not you or the organisation offering the work, so be wary of this apparent 'freedom'.