What do you pay your sitter?

[bunch]

lcol, 10/hr for a 21 yr old college student (this was the high end of her advertised rate on care.com). she is amazing.

[lurknomore]

The high school girl across the street. $10/hour for two kids. The women from daycare, usually for 3 incl the baby $20/hour.

[cinco]

10-15 for 3 kids, 10-12 when it is just for 2 of them

[speckledfrog]

$15   It hurts the pocketbook so much more than the $10 we were doing for 1.                

[pugz]

$12/hr is what our sitter charges for 1-3 kids

[charlotteandwilbur]

We pay our regular nanny $15/hr for two kids.

Date night babysitter (grad student) is $12/hr.

MCOL.

[countthestars]

We pay $10/hour for 1 kid. High Schooler (cousin)

[zeewifeandmama]

We paid 12/hour for our old preschool teacher to watch both. I always rounded up to the next hour/dollar etc. HCOL

[dr.girlfriend]

We do $10 an hour for one kid, but she basically told us to set our price, and that's what we set. We round up and give her $50 at her birthday and Christmas, that kind of thing. She's DS's teacher from when he was in the infant room at daycare.

[starlily]

We pay $13/hr for one kid. We haven't hired her for both yet, but we're anticipating it'll be $18-20.

[londoncalling]

Officially, $15/hour + round up, but I always inflate it because she's awesome and I want her to come back, so it ends up more like $20/hr. Former daycare teacher.

[lg28]

Omg now I'm paranoid under-paying.
We paid $7 an hour for one kid (high school girl) and with the baby I've been making it $10/hour.
We never have trouble getting a sitter though, and we live in a LCOL area.

[magpie]

We pay $10-12 an hour for one kid (10 months old). All our babysitters are students at our local university (most are grad students).

[wavepool]

We use my hs students. I've never had one ask for over $5/hour when I ask them their rate. We pay $8-$10/hr. We use the same girls over and over, so one time they may get extra, another time right at $8/hr.
Our friends think we way overpay, but we are definitely under the average on this board!

[ryry]

Aug 26, 2014 13:18:30 GMT -5 bunch said:

lcol, 10/hr for a 21 yr old college student (this was the high end of her advertised rate on care.com). she is amazing.

This is not making my 'I want to move back to SC!' mentality any better

We pay $17/hour for both girls.

[Brie]

It usually winds up being between $10-15/hour. We just sort of estimate and round up usually.

[ginkgoleaf]

It's rare that we have a sitter, but we've done $10/hr before. When I used to babysit ~5 years ago, I made about $10-15 an hour depending on the number of kids.

[sjh722]

Aug 26, 2014 14:43:54 GMT -5 lg28 said:

Omg now I'm paranoid under-paying.
We paid $7 an hour for one kid (high school girl) and with the baby I've been making it $10/hour.
We never have trouble getting a sitter though, and we live in a LCOL area.

Meh, we are in a pretty LCOL area too and high schoolers charge $7 an hour. I confirmed this with several other moms and round up at the end of the night. We have no trouble getting sitters.

[DarcyLongfellow]

I haven't ever hired a sitter (we're so lucky to have grandparents nearby!), but I'm going to be hiring one soon.

I've been asking around, and I've been told that for a college age sitter, I should pay $12/hour, and for a high school age sitter $10/hour. I think this is for either 1 or 2 kids.