HARRISBURG — Lawyers hired by state Attorney General Kathleen Kane to scour thousands of e-mails on state servers for pornography and other offensive content will be paid at rates ranging up to $880 an hour, according to a contract made public Friday.

The compensation for five lawyers who will participate in the review is spelled out in the contract between Kane’s office and the Washington law firm of Buckley Sandler. The rates reflect a 15 percent discount from the firm’s usual hourly rates and the lowest is $205, the contract says.

Kane appointed one of the firm’s partners, former Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler, to lead the review. Gansler has agreed to work for roughly $80 an hour, proportional to Kane’s $159,000-a-year state salary, although the details of his own contract are still being fine-tuned, he said. Gansler said the approval of the contracts means that the review can start next week, focusing on e-mails on government computers that date back to 2009. He said the $2 million estimate of the cost of the review was a “best guess” based on preliminary information.

The team, which will have subpoena and grand jury powers, may prosecute if it finds evidence of any crimes in e-mails shared by judges, prosecutors and others.

“We run a tight ship,” he said. “Our plan is to be as efficient as we possibly can be.”