Unskilled Manual Labour - London Average Day Rate?

Here in Medway (30 miles) I pay £50 + lunch a day if I need help. That's by cheque, not cash in hand.

You can get quite sensible people for that, for someone with a job who can take a few days paid leave its good extra money.

A couple of Polish/Albanian/Kosovans or UB40's would take less than that I reckon. Offer them £150 for the job but don't pay them till its done.

You should have said it was cash in hand and set Dennis off one.

But that is for employees and I strongly suspect neither the OP nor TMH want them (with additional issues of employer liability insurance, elven safety etc etc). Better to look for self-employed contractors who will of course work without supervision etc. Easier to defend if they bring at least some tools themselves (eg shovel).

Before Dennis grass's me up to George Osbourne I should state that any sub contract labour I use are self employed & provide an invoice.

Please forgive me if I seemed to cast aspersions on your labour practices. T'was not my intention.

I realise that :-)

But you can't be too careful when 'Supergrass' Dennis is about.

Thanks guys, so about 50 to 60 notes a person and provide them sarnies and the obligatory tea stream.

Might be a bit trickier if I need to find self-employed contractors but will see what I can do as it could save future troubles.

Stand outside the local gym and offer them real labour...

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They'll pay you as well.... :-)

The Medway Handyman ( snipped-for-privacy@blueyonder.co.uk) wibbled on Monday 07 February 2011 15:17:

I paid a bit more but got a bloke who was a good step up from a basic labourer - I showed him lots of stuff and he happily replicated the work - quickly too.

Very smart guy - f*ck knows why he was labouring...

Lots of cheap imported labour round his way?

In Sussex, a chap I know gets £75 a day, although he is fairly versatile.

Colin Bignell