First time as a 1099 site safety officer — rate and tax sanity check
About a month into my first site safety officer role and it’s a 1099 setup. Mid-$40s an hour, around 90 miles round trip commute, 5 days a week. Coming off W-2 so this is all new to me.
Few things I’m trying to figure out. Is that rate decent for site safety with SST 40, OSHA 30, and a few years of field experience, or am I getting lowballed once you back out the employer-side stuff? Setting aside 30% for taxes — enough once SE tax, federal, and state stack up, or should I bump it? And the commute — actually deductible as a contractor, or does it just count as personal driving since I’m going to the same site every day?
u/Ambition-Savings — 6 days ago