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posted by [personal profile] selkie at 09:13am on 10/08/2005
What does a babysitter get paid these days?

One presumably housetrained child.
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posted by [identity profile] ygrane.livejournal.com at 02:17pm on 10/08/2005
I would say five to ten dollars an hour depending on the sitter and the child in question.
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posted by [personal profile] florahart at 02:34pm on 10/08/2005
My colleague's salary essentially goes to her nanny, though her child is a special case because of all the trauma that's been in his life. The nanny is full time, so I reckon that's about $11 or so an hour, in a case with a 20 month old boy who has multiple medical and therapy appointments every month, some of which the nanny takes him to. They look forward to being able to put him in regular daycare (this fall, maybe? he's doing so well!) and only paying something like $800 a month.

Anyway. To babysit a kid like, for a few hours occasionally, I'd call something like $5 an hour reasonable. It was $1-2 an hour when I was a kid, and the minimum wage then was about $3. For more of a full-time gig with more broad-ranging responsibilities, probably more.
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posted by [identity profile] setissma.livejournal.com at 03:34pm on 10/08/2005
I'd say $5-$8 dollars an hour, depending on the kid and what you're doing. If you're just watching him/her for the afternoon, then like, five. But if you have to feed and put to bed, then closer to eight, cos that's harder work.

And that's really reasonable, from a perspective of what people charge these days.
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posted by [identity profile] orange852.livejournal.com at 05:05pm on 10/08/2005
Working moms at Major Wireless Carrier are validating the $5 to $8 figure.
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posted by [identity profile] galaxylei.livejournal.com at 07:09pm on 10/08/2005
Hi, I'm here via copperbadge's flist. I think it may be depending on what the minimum wage is in your area as to how much a babysitter gets paid. Where I live it's $6.25 an hour--I've never gotten paid less than 7/hr to babysit, and the highest I've been paid was 10/hr, but that was only one time. I would consider starting at $7 to be a reasonable amount, as watching children is more difficult than putting groceries in bags, which is what someone would be paid minimum wage for.
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posted by [identity profile] armonie.livejournal.com at 08:23pm on 10/08/2005
It also depends on the age and experience of the sitter. I'm not terribly old, so 10 years ago when I was really young and sitting I made $3-4 an hour. In high school, it was about $5 for two kids, $6 for 3. In college, a certain professor in the English dept who likes Kant paid me $10 as a "parents' helper" (give them a couple hours to get stuff done around the house while I tended to the 4 year old).
So you have lots of issues: 1. How many kids? 2. How old are they? 3. How easy are they? 4. What other responsibilities does the babysitter have? (dinner, bath, bedtime, etc) 5. How old is the sitter? 6. How much experience does the sitter have? 7. What is the "going rate" in your area?

Once you find a sitter you might like, ask for references and then ask the references what they pay.
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posted by [identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com at 08:29pm on 10/08/2005
Oh, it's mostly that my boss would like to find a sitter for her 1-year-old, who every time I've met him has been very docile. We're in a large city, so nanny sites quote around $11, but I'm not sure that's appropriate.
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posted by [identity profile] armonie.livejournal.com at 03:45am on 11/08/2005
A nanny and a babysitter are VERY different things. A nanny is usually a trained adult; a babysitter is usually a teenager. Age 1 is a "tough" age because of the danger level--constant vigilance, attention--they're crawling and messy and get into places they shouldn't-you can't turn your back for a second! I'd go for an older sitter (14 minimum, plus some experience). I'd say for a 14 year old with a little experience who will be playing with the child and putting it to bed (no bath), $7-7.50 is probably reasonable. I made $10 3 years ago with a child who was having adjustment issues and I was older with a TON of experience. Your boss should also ask the sitter what her usual rates are. If they are high, she can always say she was hoping more for the $6-7 range or something. If it is lower, great.
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