>Hi all, I have taken on a project as a side job to earn a little extra dough. I have spent my entire life programming for a company on a salery + benifits basis. I have no Idea how much to charge. Can anyone give me a ball park figure on the going rate for a contract programmer?
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>Thanks to all in advance.

I'm currently charging $60.00/hr. for VFP. If you branch out to VB/SQL/ASP you will have more to choose from and could conceivably get more. If you go with Sun or Oracle technologies (UNIX/Java/EJB/J2EE/C++/Oracle 8i) you could easily charge over $100.00/hr.