Source: https://deftridge.com/glossary/ Title: Glossary of part-time work | Deftridge Summary: Definitions of the terms used on Deftridge: formats, levels, rates, guarantees and more. Deftridge is free for professionals. 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. - **Contractor premium** The uplift over the market wage that reflects leave, benefits and social contributions a contractor pays for themselves. - **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.