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.

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[rivka.livejournal.com]

It's not that I want to shop around, it's that the head of the clinic asked me how much I was willing to pay the guy, and I didn't have the faintest idea of what to say.

I have subsequently done what I should've done in the first place, which is call my grant's financial administrator and ask her to find out how much he charges and set it up.