Ah, yeah, its more than reasonable to tell them you expect to be paid for a weeks work. Now the question becomes whether its actually a week's work or its a cou

Ah, yeah, its more than reasonable to tell them you expect to be paid for a weeks work. Now the question becomes whether its actually a week's work or its a couple of hours worth of work that just takes you a week to wrap it up. For the latter case, I put a time limit on it. If I look at it and I think its about an hours worth of work, I'll just do it. If it looks like a day's worth of work, I let them know that and tell them I'm happy to give them a day rate on contracting and either work on that project or pair on something else, and if they push back I politely decline to continue the process. IME good companies know at the outset that their filter projects are substantial enough that their process includes automatic payment for the day.