Rate on developing a full Excell application

[chazrab]

With the help of Mr. Excel I was able to complete an application for my wife's company over the weekend.

This project required VBA code.
Before I joined the board on 10/18/2006, I spent about 40 hrs learning VBA and got this application to its final stages. It is now complete and runs great. thanks again to a few people on the board who are infinitely further ahead in VBA programming than me.

I had no intention of charging the company anything, just doing it as a favor, but the VP is insistent in wanting to pay me something.

This is not my full time job. I am a software sales industry recruiter and I don't feel like I should charge them 40 hrs for me learning VBA these last 2-3 weeks. Being fair to both of us, what does anyone think I should ask for payment ?

BTW, what they wanted done in Excel would have taken me about 1 day if the application could have been developed in Access or Paradox, because of the relationships between sets of data

One hardware support guy the company uses is charging them $100/hr. But he's very experienced in putting togther networks, configuring servers, etc.

What do you think would be fair to both of us?

Thanks for your help.
CR

 

[Jon Peltier]

HOw much of the 40 hours was spent learning, making dumb mistakes, and rewriting? How long do you think it would have taken with your present knowledge of VBA? $100/hr is probably not outrageous for a consultant of medium experience.

 

[Norie]

How much are the people that helped you here due?

 

[Jon Peltier]

I learned my craft from forums like Mr Excel and the Microsoft newsgroups from many very smart people. I have gained credibility from posting on these forums. I get traffic to my web site from people following up on my posts. Plus I enjoy doing this. So, uh, no charge.