What do you reckon the going rate for this is?

[Frostythesurfmum]

Had a note through the door from my neighbour's son offering to do odd jobs for extra cash for Christmas. We're going away at the weekend and the cat will need feeding Sat am, Sat pm and Sun pm. What do you think we should offer him if he agrees to do it?

a tenner! He will only be in for a few minutes at a time.

in our area, you'd get it for a fiver, but everything is cheaper in the rural quarters

Agree, no more than £10!

true piffle, we live in an expensive area, no idea where FTSM lives though.

Thanks! We're definitely rural and I'm a cheapskate so £5 is sounding good. Anyone else?

I would say a tenner. Admittedly it is only a quick job each time, but her has to do it several times.

For 3 trips - £5 is adequate, what would he want for a 2 week holiday? (I get a bottle of wine from my neighbours for that!)

A fiver is plenty if all he has to do is feed the cat three times.

Go £7.50 its half between the suggestions so far or £6.00 (£2.00 per feed).

It's hardly a lot of work is it? He'll be back home within 10 minutes. So if we give him a fiver that's £10 an hour, so not a bad rate for a 15 year old!

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£5.