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post #41 of 46
10/15/06 at 11:13pm
I tried it and it seemed high for my area.
post #42 of 46
10/23/06 at 2:15am
that was a fun waste of time
post #43 of 46
10/23/06 at 4:09pm
I tried the calculator, and kids are getting much more than 7.75/hour. I think the going rate is about 10/highschool sitter. It really does depend on your neighborhood though. We are in a pretty wealthy area, but our neighborhood isn't that wealthy. We haven't had sitters here yet, but we have heard the same "pay what you think" when we ask.

As a late high school/college student with 5-7 years experience, I got about $5 for 3 kids an hour. This was just a few years ago! Wait that was over 10 years ago.

I think most of our friends pay somewhere around 7-10/hour a little north of Dallas. We mostly use family or trade outs with friends. That doesn't help your daughter, but it may help others. We had some friend ssit the other night, and we fed everyone (ourselves included) a really nice meal before we left. It was great for us because dinner cost us a whole $24 to feed 5 adults and one child (another friend came over to keep the others company). My hubby and I would have spent way more than that for dinner for ourselves and for a sitter. We were then able to go out (Blue Man Group concert), feel good about who was at our house, and know that we had saved a little money.
post #44 of 46
10/24/06 at 11:36pm
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Thanks everyone for all the different prices throughout the country. What a spread! When I was sitting I made $1.00 per hour with an additional 25 cents for each additional kid. My I'm dating myself. So it was hard to give dd advice on prices. Thanks for all the input.
post #45 of 46
10/25/06 at 12:14am
It said that my 13 year old with 2 years of expereince should be getting $4 an hour... so it was low for us. She starts at $5 an hour, but most of the time people insist on at least $6 an hour, for one child.

Dar
post #46 of 46
10/27/06 at 7:54pm
It seemed awfully high for young babysitters, at least here in the Seattle area. It said 7.75 for an 11-13 year old with no experience. I pay 5 - 6 for someone like that. The rates were closer for older teens, though.
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