Lucky i have been offered a bricklaying job on the costa blanca but they have asked me how much i want a day/week but i have no idea what the going rate is????

A lot depends on whether you are being employed legally , illegally 70 -120 euro per day ,legally 80 -140 euro ,obviously better to be employed legally as you get full medical cover etc but your employer may be reluctant as he will have to pay around 400 euro pm for your NI!!

Rgds

Rotor

Thanks thats a great help, i will be employed legally as i have all my papers and i am a spanish resident aswell. What it be better for me to be self employed or not??

Avoid being self enployed (autonomo) if you can as it will cost you around 260 euro p.m for NI plus an accountants fees etc and even if you have a bad month and dont earn 260 euro you still have to pay your NI !!!

Thank you very much for you help

Employed albañil (workers) are paid about 17euros/hour but this can vary slightly depending on skills and wether legal or not.

17€ sounds more like the charge out rate rather than what the guy would get paid.

I only pay 12€ for skilled brickies/carpenters etc. and with the current employment situation I am pretty sure I can get a better deal.

I pay €14 an hour for a top class brickie

Top class brickie in Spain ? they can`t even go round corners. ;-))

No .... this one is good, its the Brit bricklayers around here that are horizontally challenged

Here in Galicia about 40 euros for day's work!

knew a guy once, he was offered a legal job with a company that does new builds...work coming out their ears (this was a couple of years ago) was being paid per m2

he took the job and started on day as agreed...end of day 2 boss man came down and said work wasnt to standard and he hadnt done enough m2 in the time.....he had to take down the walls he had built and re-build them in his own time

apparently this was all written in the contract....he didnt read or speak Spanish

so that was the end of that job !

make sure you read the small print of your contract adzcosta

thanks for all your advice, i spoke to another brick layer last nite who is self employed and he told me not to except less than 120 a day if i was going to be self employed.

You won`t get much work then, Spanish work for half that and the Eastern Europeans less than that. ;-))

well the guys building english spec houses to english standards