Glossary
The glossary
30 terms, defined once and used the same way everywhere on the site.
- Anonymous profile
- What a company sees before you agree to an introduction: your first name, field, level, rate and a short summary, without your surname, employer or contact details.
- Bundle
- A monthly package of recurring tasks, usually 10 to 20 hours, billed hourly up to a cap.
- Client rate
- The rate the company pays: your rate plus Deftridge's 15% fee.
- Contractor
- A person who works independently, not as an employee, and is responsible for their own tax and contributions.
- Expert hour
- A single paid slot, typically an hour, with a senior specialist.
- Floor
- The lowest hourly rate Deftridge publishes in a country. No role is priced below the market median or the floor.
- Fractional
- A senior role filled part time, for example a fractional CFO working a few hours a week for one or several companies.
- Format
- How work is packaged: regular role, one-off task, bundle, expert hour or AI expert review.
- Human-only
- Work where AI tools may not be used to produce the answers, as in AI expert review.
- Kappa
- The measured ratio between pay posted in job ads and the aged wage statistic for the same role and region, used to calibrate market wages.
- Level
- Specialist, senior, manager, director or executive. Each level scales the rate.
- Market median
- The middle hourly wage for a role in a place, from official wage statistics aged to today.
- Moonlighting
- Doing paid work outside your main job. Whether it is allowed depends on your contract and local law.
- Non-compete
- A contract clause restricting work for competitors. Enforceability varies by country and state.
- OEWS
- Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics survey that is our main source for US wages.
- One-off task
- A single deliverable with a fixed scope and a fixed price.
- Outplacement
- Support for people leaving a company in a reduction. On Deftridge it is free for the company and the people affected.
- Percentile
- A point in the wage distribution. The 25th percentile means a quarter of people earn less.
- Placement fee
- A fee charged when a company hires a person full time. Deftridge charges none.
- Platform cap
- The maximum of 15 hours a week a professional works across all Deftridge tasks.
- Prepayment
- Companies pay before work starts, so the money is there when you work.
- Rate report
- A free e-mailed report with wage percentiles, the contractor rate for your level and open tasks.
- Recruiter
- The named person on our team who agrees your rate, finds tasks and stays on your thread.
- Regular role
- Ongoing part-time work, typically 3 to 10 hours a week.
- Replacement guarantee
- If a person on a standing role is not working out, we replace them at no extra cost.
- Shortlist
- Three to five anonymous profiles with rates that a company receives within 48 hours of a brief.
- Standing role
- A regular role that continues week after week until either side ends it.
- Task
- A defined piece of work with a brief, an hourly rate, a load and a start window.
- Written OK
- Your agreement, in writing, before a company sees your profile.