Do you babysit? What do they pay you? What do they bring? - Page 2

[texmati]

Originally Posted by tjjazzy

Canadian. why do you ask?

oh! the number seemed a little low, but I wasn't changing any currancy in my head.

[MaddieMay]

I pay my teenage babysitter $8/hour to sit at my house while DS is sleeping so we can go to a late-night movie. I pay my adult nanny $9/hour (her rate) to come during the day. I supply everything and it is all in my home.

If I were to do it in my home, I would charge a minimum of $8/hour for one child. Diapers and wipes would need to be provided by the parent, but I would provide food and just give the child what we were eating. Any specialty foods (formula, soy milk, etc.) would need to be provided by the parent.

[sanguine_speed]

I don't provide care,but I know the going rate in the area is $40 per day per child, no sibling discounts. When I require a babysitter for my 4, it's $20 per hour. Canadian. ($19.45 USD).

[jnet24]

I do daycare in my home and no one around here charges more than $3.00 an hour for a child. I worked at a daycare that charged that much as well. So maybe where you live it is a bit different.

When I babysat in someone else home I made about $108 for three days. On most babysitting jobs, when I was in my early 20s ( only 6 years ago), I was always paid around $8 an hour.

[just_lily]

I do home daycare (in Canada) and charge $800 a month for my full time kids. That works out to be about $4 an hour but with multiple kids it works. Part timers pay $50 a day, or $8 an hour.

Parents supply diapers and bottles. I provide pretty much everything else. Some other providers in my area request wipes as well, but I have three kids in diapers right now and don't want three sets of wipes.

I am licensed, so I am restricted by the number of kids I can take in (6, including my own, with age limitations as well). There are unlicensed providers in my town who charge a lot less, but make up for it in volume. Sure if I had 12 kids at a time I could charge $3 an hour, but I would also go out of my mind!!!

[Mummoth]

I charge $20./day for after school care for 1 girl (same $ on pro-d days, about once a month) and I have her for 1 1/2 - 2 hours total, M - F. The other family is 2 kids, and I charge $35. total for them... I have them an 1/2 hour before and 1 -1/2 hours after school one day/week. I haven't had them on a pro-d day yet, but I'd probably say $50. for the day. I provide the after school snack.

[redvlagrl]

We pay $35 a day which includes all food. I could have DD there from 7.30-5pm but I don't. We're in Canada.

I provided diapers and wipes (she said she would do cloth be we figured it would be easier for her to use sposies) but now DD is toilet trained so that's not an issue.

We love having DD in a home daycare. i bet you would be an awesome provider.

Don't sell yourself short.

[Tjej]

If anyone else who will pay more than the $20/day family is serious, give the $20 family the option to pay more or take 2 weeks notice. You are running a business. Don't feel bad about it - your time is VALUABLE!

Tjej

[EzzysMom]

Wow here in Boston I got $80 a day, I provided the food, one kid, all day. A bit more than family daycare with more kids and definitely less than preschool per day.

[catballou24]

I charge 40/day for over 5 hours. i do provide food - mostly all organic - and have picked up and dropped off when i can. none of my moms have ever complained about the price. it's alot of work and 3/hour is just not enough to disrupt your household and put out that emotional effort, let alone the physical.

[~Amy~]

I charged $30 a day. I provided food and the parents provided diapers & wipes. I'm in Canada.

[earthgirl]

I charge $12 per hour, which is actually on the low end of rates for this area. I'm more of an occasional sitter, though. But the times that I have had a more steady gig I still charged between $10-$12 depending on the circumstances. There is no way I would go any lower than that.

[Geist]

I get paid $50 a day (or actually $6 an hour but it works out to be about $50) and they bring a cup of water and occasionally a cup of milk along with diapers and wipes. I provide 2 meals and 2 snacks, basically. It's not standard though I just feed him whenever I feed my kid. They're also friends and I only watch him one day a week while another friend watches him the other 4, but I'm backup so if the other friends' kids' are sick or they go on vacation (like this week), I watch him the whole week. Trust me, earning this much I feel like they're getting robbed! It's the easiest money ever. When I used to babysit in the midwest, I got paid $30, but that was also overnight so I watched the girl for a couple of hours, put her to bed, and then hung out and went to bed myself and got paid.

[meg_shannon]

In my area it matters a lot whether the in-home care provider is licensed. Also, have you checked into your insurance policy to see if they cover this type of stuff? If a child was injured in your home, would the policy cover the incurred expenses and any possible litigation?

Licensed providers that provide the food, but not diapers/wipes, charge about 30$/day, and give a slight discount for a full time weekly rate. Unlicensed providers charge about 20$/day (with the same provisions).

I would not pay someone 10-12$/hour to watch my child unless they were ONLY caring for my child. At 10$/hour and assuming 40 hours/week and 50 weeks of care/year that works out to about 1650$/month! For that much money I would expect a dedicated care provider in my home.

[beebalmmama]

I charge between $30-$40 a day, depending on hours and other variables. They provide diapers, wipes and will provide food when LO's are big enough.

I am getting a bit lower than what I had originally intended ($40-$50) a day. But home childcare providers are plentiful here, probably due to the outrageous childcare center rates (which are over inflated here compared to salaries).

Where I lived before I paid someone $25 a day. I know pretty low, but that was what I could afford and was actually the going rate for childcare in the area. We ended up paying $18 a day at a day care center in the same area when our ds was 2 yrs.

Childcare rates are really something you need to compare locally, since the area you are in can make a big difference.

I called around to daycare centers and in home childcare providers to check about rates and then tried to set my own rates competitive to those.

[sapphire_chan]

You could also check www.care.com for your area.

[tsfairy]

Around here it's $150ish per week for toddlers in most daycares. Up to $200+ for infants (under 18 months in some cases.)

$60 per week is what my mom charged when she had her home daycare 20 years ago!

[Sneezykids]

I babysit for my neighbor's two year old. I've had her since last year but now I'm down to just two days a week. They pay me $34 a day for 9am-5pm. and they provide ALL food, diapers, milk, wipes.. it is the going rate around here for registered/lic. daycare (I am not though)

I'm outside metro Detroit... and our economy is still in the dumps big time. Alot of daycares have lost kids due to the huge # of jobs being lost here. Thus, it is pretty competitive.

[childsplay]

I do.
I charge $35/day.
They bring,
diapers & wipes
cows milk/EBM/Soy?etc...
weather appropriate clothing (though this one is tricky for some reason, I've never had a day where everyone has shoes/boots, or jackets, or bathing suit, or mitts/hatts, or raincoats.....it's extremely frusterating especially since we spend huge amounts of time outdoors
sunblock, bugspray, hat and swim dipes (they bring it all in a labeled bag at the beggining of summer)
two pairs extra mitts, hats and socks - this is a new policy beggining Dec. 1 of this year for above reasons
lunch/snacks if they have allergies or special diet

I provide
lunch
snacks
juice
craft supplies
carseats
strollers
playpens or sleep mats
toys/bikes etc

Word of advice, make a contract, have a set payday (up front is best) and set pick up/drop off times. Treat these things as a big center daycare would. (seriously, I've had to go to people's houses on my weekend to try and collect my fee and I've had kids 'forgotten' at my house until 7:30 pm on Friday nights and )