How do we calculate ongoing monthly placement fees?

To make it easier to manage your placement fees ongoing and to allow you to set up a standing order and budget for your care, we calculate client fees as a spread based on a yearly breakdown over 12 months.

Depending on the length and type of your care arrangement, your percentage fee will vary. Live in care rates vary and are different to live out care fees on an ongoing basis, so each percentage rate will be individual to your arrangement.

For ease of calculation, here we will assume an AtHome care fee of 15% :

Lets assume you are paying your carer £150 per day, we calculate the monthly fee as follows:

15% of £150 per day carer rates = £22.50 per day fees

22.50 x 373 days a year (to account for bank holidays) divided by 12 months to spread over 12 months = £699.37 per month arrangement fee invoiced monthly directly from AtHome Care

So the client’s total care costs, including our arrangement fees is £55,950 carer pay + 8392 fees (in this case) = £64.342 total care cost

This is a very competitive price for reliable and vetted live-in care and means that your carer gets paid much more than a regular care agency, infact any agency we know! Our pricing means you get all the help we provide at a substantially lower cost, some care agencies can take up to 60% of the carer’s pay as fees, which we belive is just not fair to anyone.

If you have any questions on this calculation, we would welcome your questions by email at hello@athomecaregroup.co.uk