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Salt Social People/Event staff Edinburgh
Event and hospitality staffing · Edinburgh · Lothians

Event staff for Edinburgh,ninety minutes up the line.

Edinburgh runs the biggest arts festival in the world, a Hogmanay that fills the city, and a Christmas market in the gardens below the castle. We can supply bar, floor, kitchen and event teams, and we are honest about how.

Core rate, ex VAT£25.00/hr
What the person is paid£14.00 + holiday
Minimum booking4 hours
Newcastle to Edinburgh by trainAbout 90 minutes
The local market

A capital whose busiest weeks are everybody's busiest weeks.

In August the Festival Fringe, the International Festival and the Tattoo on the castle esplanade turn the whole city into a venue. Pop-up bars open in courtyards and university buildings, and every restaurant and hotel wants more people than it can find. From mid-November the Christmas market and fair in Princes Street Gardens run through to the new year, finishing with the Hogmanay street party on 31 December.

Between those peaks, Edinburgh is a conference and wedding city. The international conference centre and the hotels around it host dinners and events year round. Murrayfield brings rugby hospitality in the Six Nations and autumn internationals, and stadium concerts in summer. In June the Royal Highland Show at Ingliston runs for four days, and across the Lothians, castles and country houses book full floor teams for weddings.

Where we work, honestly

Salt Social People is an English company based in Newcastle upon Tyne, about ninety minutes from Edinburgh Waverley by train. We can supply teams in Edinburgh, but we will not pretend to have a large local bench today. For most Edinburgh bookings, some or all of the team will be our travelling core team from Newcastle, with rail travel and hotel shown at cost on their own lines, alongside any Edinburgh-based people we have taken on. Multi-day work, like a festival run or a conference week, suits that well. At booking we confirm within two hours who is coming and what travel adds.

Buying situations

The bookings we can take on in Edinburgh.

Through the year

The Edinburgh year, as a staffing calendar.

Rates, published

The rate card for this booking.

Edinburgh is charged at the national rate. There is no regional uplift. Where people travel from Newcastle, rail travel, accommodation at cost and meals at £20 per person per day are shown as separate lines, so you can see exactly what travel adds.

TierWe pay themYou pay us
CoreBar staff, waiting, runners, kitchen porters, event crew, stewards, cloakroom, admissions£14.00 + 12.07% holiday£25.00
SkilledCocktail bartenders, baristas, fine-dining and box waiters, hosts, brand ambassadors, team leaders£16.50 + holiday£28.00
LeadSupervisors, event managers, chefs de partie£20.00 + holiday£34.00
Senior chefSous chefs, head chefs£24.00 + holiday£40.00
Uplifts, also published. Inside the M25: +£3/hr (we pay +£2). 1 December to 2 January and bank holidays: +£3/hr (we pay +£2). New Year's Eve: +£6/hr (we pay +£4), which replaces the festive uplift rather than stacking on it.
Not on the invoice. No last-minute premium. No surge pricing. No travel charge within 15 miles of the worker's base. No booking fee. Minimum booking 4 hours per person.
The contingency and the rebate. Every quote carries a 20% contingency line so a late finish never becomes an argument. Unused, it is never charged. If the job comes in under the quote, we refund 5% of the final invoice.
Cancellation, published. Free more than 48 hours before start. 50% between 24 and 48 hours. 100% inside 24 hours. Whatever you pay goes to the person who cleared their diary.
The whole rate card and the instant estimate
In the contract, not just on this page

Five promises with money behind them.

Every client booking carries the same five guarantees, written into our terms of business.

Quote in 60 minutes

Written, itemised, ex VAT, 8am to 8pm every day. Three hours outside that.

A named human, 7am to 2am

Your account manager's mobile is on the booking confirmation, answered on any day we have people working.

First-hour swap

Anyone not right? Tell us in the first hour. No charge for them and a replacement on the way.

First shift on us

New clients get one person for one four-hour shift free on their first booking. See what you are buying.

Fill honesty

Names confirmed within two hours of booking. If we cannot fill a position we say so at booking, never on the day.

Questions

Straight answers.

Can you really supply staff in Edinburgh?

Yes, with honesty about how. Today most Edinburgh teams include people who travel from our Newcastle base, about ninety minutes by train. We tell you within two hours of booking who is coming, and what travel and hotel add to the quote.

Is the rate different in Scotland?

No. The national rate card applies: Core £25.00, Skilled £28.00, Lead £34.00, senior chef £40.00 per hour ex VAT. Travel and accommodation for people coming from Newcastle are shown at cost on their own lines.

Do your bar staff meet Scottish licensing rules?

Under the Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005, anyone serving alcohol on licensed premises needs the statutory staff training, recorded by the premises licence holder. Tell us at booking how your premises handles it and we make sure our people have it before they pour.

Can you staff the whole of the festival in August?

We can supply a travelling team for a run of dates, with the same people each day. Tell us the dates early, because August is the hardest month to fill anywhere in Scotland, and we will say at booking exactly what we can deliver.

Do you supply security?

No. Door supervision needs an SIA licence and we refer that to a licensed partner. We do supply stewards, admissions and event crew.

Nearby and related

Same people, same published terms.

See the whole rate card and the instant estimate, or start a full quote. Looking for shifts yourself? Work with us.

Get a quote

Tell us the brief. We reply within 60 minutes.

Staff enquiry

Build the team you need, role by role. The more you tell us, the more accurate the quote. Nothing here commits you to anything.
1About you
2The event
3Dates and times
4Your team
Core£25/hr
Bar staff
Waiting staff
Runners
Kitchen porters
Event crew / stewards
Cloakroom / admissions
Skilled£28/hr
Cocktail bartenders
Baristas
Fine-dining waiters
Hosts
Brand ambassadors
Team leaders
Lead£34/hr
Supervisors / event managers
Chefs de partie
Senior chef£40/hr
Sous chefs
Head chefs
Priced on requestquoted
Drivers
Anything elsequoted
Team: 0 people
5Requirements
6Budget and paperwork
7Anything else
Or email hello@salt-social.co.uk

What happens next

Your brief lands with Tasmyn or Liam, not a queue. A written quote within 60 minutes (8am to 8pm) and a call if anything needs clarifying. A named mobile is given to every client at booking.

Compliance in one place

Every person paid through our PAYE payroll, so you carry no status risk. Right-to-work checks before day one. Employers' Liability £10m, Public Liability £10m. Certificates with your first confirmation.

Already have an agency?

Keep them. Use us for the shifts they cannot fill, or the ones that matter most. Overflow is where most first clients start.

Other agencies

Short on people for a big weekend? We supply overflow to other agencies on the same published terms.