"friends don't ask friend for favors"

That is the way I feel too. I believe everybody deserves to make their wages whenever they are using their job skills. I melted a couple of 220 breakers in my shop panel and I am having a friend replace the entire panel tommorrow. He works at the University as an electrician. I told him I supply all of the materials and tools and would pay his regular union scale wages per hour and buy he and his family dinner tomorrow as his "benefits" package. He tried to say he'd "just do me a favor" but finally agreed. I think that is a fair agreement don't you? I wish my other "friend" felt the same way about my labor.