Question: Will i be out of line if i tell my manager, to pay me for something out of my job description?

Currently I work for a well-known international company as an I.T Manager.

In the past I have developed a VBA program which saved them allot of time / money +- 10K eur / $13K
Where they used to take 2 hours on a customer it happens with a click of a button.
I did this to help and try and show off some of my skills which they never knew about.

My Position is not to develop applications but to manage and support the I.T infrastructure.

They want me to develop something else, which I’m well capable of doing, but these applications.
Extract data from a database with many relationships, and takes allot of my concentration.
To manipulate the extracted data its loops with in loops and quite a few nested SQL statements.
If I have to go back to the source code of the previous application that I have developed
It takes me about 30mins to an hour to get my head round on what I actually did, sometimes even longer.
Once I get going, I cant be interrupted otherwise I lose concentration.

In my position people phone me all the time, and most cases I have to leave my desk, to get problem resolved and
I’m always being involved in meetings.

So as much as I would like to develop the application I cant (I get a rewarding feeling every time I walk past someone’s desk and see them using what I created)
But I’m honestly too busy to develop this application.

I will have to do this in my own time, but I feel its not right, I’m not earning the salary of an application developer, and people don’t really appreciate the work that actually went into it.
They think its something that I have downloaded, the one guy even came to me and said he has this application and changed a bit so it can run automatically, only to find out it the one I created.
But any

Will I be out of line to tell my manager to pay me by the hour spent on the program ?
Do developers charge after hour fees ? cuz this I will have to do at home during the night ?

I don’t need the money and would far rather , have my personal time for my self and get a development company to do this, but then they say, ‘why must we pay someone to do this
When you can do it.’

Answer:

Ask your manager to pay you as it is not in your job description but don't ask to be paid hourly ask to be paid a fixed fee

There's nothing wrong with going the extra mile for your employer, as long as they know about it and are reminded of it at review time. If you're in a union situation, I'd certainly discuss it with your supervisor...let them know what is being requested is not minor and is impacting performance of your regular duties. I definitely would not suggest doing it on your own time gratis - if you can work out with your supervisor a method for remuneration for services over and above your normal duties, that's another matter entirely. However, unless there is a contract or other agreement specifying what is and is not expected from your employment (which your union bargaining might provide, then again might not), your job is whatever your boss tells you it is.

What I would suggest is that you arrange to speak to your manager. Sit down with him / her and say that since your job role appears to be expanding and you are taking on extra responsiblities and duties etc, would it be possible to review your salary accordingly.

Certainly in the UK most employment contracts list out your duties and finish by saying 'any additional duties as required'.

I think if you went in and said I want x money for x hours, then you could find yourself on thin ice and is it worth it?

Good luck

In the US without a written employment contract your job description is whatever your employer says it is, job description is meaningless and is for the benefit of the employer not the employee, you can ask for more money but doubtful you would get it.