Do my homework, LJ!

[rivka]

I'm Googling around trying to find an answer to this question, but it occurred to me that some of my friends probably have the information at their fingertips.

What's a fair hourly rate to pay a database engineer to write a script that pulls information from an already-established database? He estimates that the task will be "easy" and will take a few hours' work, less than a day.

Comments

[johnpalmer.livejournal.com]

Nod. A lump sum, for a decent hourly rate for a reasonable number of hours, can work out really well.

But before doing this, I'd advise you to be sure you can define the problem carefully. It'd be lousy for both of you if the problem was completed, and then found to be incorrectly defined, so it requires a rewrite.