Organizational Assistance - What's the going rate?

[my_lady_f]

What's the going flat rate for an organizing buddy?

Specifically how much should someone pay a friend to come over to their house and work an 8 hour day, on a weekend and help to organize your house? Lets say they were taken out to lunch at mid-day as an added incentive.

The buddy's purpose would be to help them along and keep them from getting

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[restoman]

This is a tough question.

I regularly pay Adam (not the canine one) to do housecleaning, yardwork, etc, and pay him $10.00 per hour. The work tends to be harder than organizing, and sometimes includes things like mopping and scrubbing toilets, but he is usually happy to get the money. I suppose it boils down to a matter of what feels like an appropriate price, and coming to an agreement that both parties feel comfortable with.

I usually pay my regular workers more, but for particularly nasty or inconvenient jobs, will renegotiate the price to suit the work.

[my_lady_f]

That's about what I was thinking - $10 an hour seems to be the universal "non-professional" i.e not a plumber, etc. rate.