Quote Originally Posted by Geoff Parkstone View Post
This last sentence demonstrates where you still simply just don't get it. Quantuma plc would bill 10500 on your basis, not any individual employee earn it.

Do you think that if you buy a beer for £5 in a pub, the staff member takes home that fiver? No, there are operational costs involved in serving that pint. Same way Q have operating costs.

The 10500 is turnover to Q, not wages for the individual. All the cost of running Q have to be funded out of that, and like, turnover. The individual accountant whose hours generate that fee income may typically be remunerated 3500 for that week.
Actually I do ‘get’ that...but then the nurse working a 40 hour week, as opposed to the thirty hours example of the accountant, would gross just £730.40 in comparison to the £3500 out of £10.5k you speak of. Can that be right?

Moreover I happen to have been talking to an acquaintance of mine who’s currently going through a tricky divorce. I can’t remember which way round it is but one of their solicitors charges £320 per hour while the other charges £350 ph...and yet apparently rape cases are going unheard for months and months because of a shortage of appropriate legal staff.

Something seems horribly wrong to me.