>Thanks for your prompt reply. I have been a FOXPRO programmer since 1992 and have had extensive exposure to FOXBASE and dBASE prior to that. I also have working knowledge of ACCESS, Power Builder and Paradox.
>I am currently a Senior Systems Analyst with a Fortune 500 Company. I have been approached by a friend to do some part-time work, namely a project on the side. Being new to the consulting world, I was not sure what my billing rate should be. I know roughly that the rates range from 35 to 85 an hour for this region. I am proficient in design and the project is going to be in VFP 5.0. It is going to involve a lot of desing and testing along with coding. Based on the above info., do you have any idea what my rate potentially could be?

as you are proficient analyst I would charge more fro the analysing stage
consider that if you didn't program with VFP some of the work will be learning on clients time, so you might want to charge less for the first time
(I don't know what is your knowledge with OO etc.)

also if this will be RAD project that no full analysis will be done (only partial) which may affect your biling scheme as well

Arnon