How much per hour? Per job? Or what?

May 6 02:42 UTC 1993

 My neighbor's son, home from college for the summer, is doing lotsa
work for me in the yard/barn. I didn't know this until I noticed the
barn was all cleaned out, including the removal of 18 " of hay/manure
from 10 yrs ago, and a hundred bales of hay from the loft, just as old.
He's also building a fence for my horse, rototilling, and knocking down
a decrepit old playhouse. I asked him to keep track of the hours he was
spending, so I can pay him a fair wage (he apparently was going to do
the barn out of the goodness of his heart). Neither of us knows what a
fair hourly rate is, however. What should I pay him? (His younger brother
gets $30 when he mows my lawn, for those of you who know the size of my
lawn, and would like a reference point.)

response 2 of 4:

May 6 15:55 UTC 1993

  If he is good, $10/hr isn't bad at all.  Landscape places charge upwards
of that, and they usually aren't so great.

response 4 of 4:

May 7 03:47 UTC 1993

Except that riding around on a tractor mower is a lot easier than the
work the other brother is going to do.
I also was thinking $6 or up.