Babysitter/home teaching rates?

[campermom]

Daycare is charging 165 a week but I may only need 2 days for my middle child (4th grade). They will charge that full rate.

My youngest will still go to daycare.

I may have a babysitter who could do the 2 days at home, but she will be working her customer service job and have her laptop out. She would help her with school. My 6th grader would have stayed home alone, but since 4th grader will be there with a sitter, he would be there too:

Babysitter normally charges 15/hour, but I need 8 hours for 2 days so that already exceeds daycare costs. She said she’s not looking for anything crazy, just extra cash.

What should I offer?

[mustardseed2007]

Hmmmm we pay our sitter 15 dollars an hour for our two kids for all day work, she helps them with their "homework" from the tutor that they are also seeing right now and also makes sure DS practices piano and DD works on her speech (sometimes she can't get DS to practice piano). I mean we are in a city but not in a particularly HCOL area. The going rate for a sitter for two kids in my area is 15-22 per hour. I offered 15 because she's on the lower end of experience.

To add perspective, on top of her, we have a tutor twice a week, 45 minutes per kid. She's 70 dollars per hour and has been a teacher for 35 years. She's very very good at being a tutor. I thought for just general tutoring skills that was about 10 dollars an hour too much but no, she's worth it.
DS' Neuhaus tutor is now 70 dollars per hour (up from 60 when we first started). She's also worth it, although we haven't been working with her this summer. We are about to start up again and she'll be working with DS on writing.

[twinmomma]

Right now I give SIL $200 for 2 days of watching the kids. She's here around 6-7 hours a day and doesn't have to coordinate school work, just keeps them occupied with activities, feeds them, etc. So I'm right around the $15/hour rate. I feel like that's the bare minimum that people charge around here. When we had a real nanny she was $25/hour.

[waverly]

We pay our nanny $15 an hour for 4 days which comes to $480 and DH rounded it up to $500 a week. This is 8 hours a day. I expect to pay $250 for 2 days, 8 hours a day. I’m hoping this works out where she can stay on because I don’t want to do elearning anymore. We won’t have any other childcare costs than that because we are not doing aftercare with a hybrid schedule.

[sdlaura]

We were talking about having someone facilitate distance learning and afternoon outdoor activities for 4-7 kids as a ‘pod’ and were thinking 30-40 for the morning tutor/junior teacher person and 25 for the afternoon person. Maybe lower end for 4 kids and scaling up for 7. We pay our normal babysitter 20 an hour.

If this person is only supervising one fourth grader loosely while doing her other job, you could offer lower I guess?

[sandandsea]

I was planning for a tutor for the pod to be about $600/week or $20/hour for 30 hours. We are in a VHCOL so I could see it going up to $30/hour+ quite easily.

[k3am]

Someone in our school district parent board has been trying to find someone to facilitate distance learning. She's offering $35/hour and still hasn't had luck. (ETA: We are also VHCOL)

[waverly]

It sounds like if my nanny would facilitate a pod rather than just my 2 kids then I would have to raise it at least $10 an hour.

The family I was thinking of poding with is cheap with childcare, so it might be less paying a nanny/teacher/ tutor and more alternating days home using intermittent FMLA.

[mustardseed2007]

I'm in a group right now that has tutors and teachers. There is a tutor who posted her rate as 60 per hour for one on one, 40 per hour for 2 (each child), 35 for three (each child).

That's tutoring, not teaching. Since our tutor is a teacher who is employed at a school, I think she's going to go back to teaching if her school is open. That's what I think anyway. In which case I'm not sure if we'd be able to use her...or would want to.

[phdmomma]

We pay our summer nanny (a college student) $15 per hour to watch two kids. We are in a medium cost of living area, and the average was $10-15 per hour. We are planning to hire two college students (only one will be here at a time) to cover the majority of e-learning (our district is online only through at least Halloween, but likely longer). I will offer the same rate, because it is higher for a sitter in our area.

[erbear]

I would expect to pay $250-300/week

[cosmowife]

No one has mentioned the fact that your babysitter would be working while watching the kids? I’d have a hard time paying someone anything for that. Obviously she wouldn’t work for free but my point is she’s doing two jobs at once. I don’t see how she could watch your kids and work at the same time (despite the fact that many of us are doing exactly that, but we don’t have a choice and we aren’t charging someone for childcare while we do our day job). Maybe I misunderstood your statement?

[campermom]

Jul 20, 2020 5:04:15 GMT -5 cosmowife said:

No one has mentioned the fact that your babysitter would be working while watching the kids? I’d have a hard time paying someone anything for that. Obviously she wouldn’t work for free but my point is she’s doing two jobs at once. I don’t see how she could watch your kids and work at the same time (despite the fact that many of us are doing exactly that, but we don’t have a choice and we aren’t charging someone for childcare while we do our day job). Maybe I misunderstood your statement?

Yes, this. My 4 year old will be at daycare. The 4th grader needs to be supervised and help w homeschool, which took me a total of about 2-2.5 hours per day. I did make that clear and told her how much time It took. The 6th grader didn’t need a babysitter but he will be there too.

I had texted her saying I assumed she wasn’t babysitting during the day anymore since she had a full time job now, but to let me know of any friends who were. She responded that she was looking for an easy gig that she could have her laptop out and work during. (So not Little little ones.) She does customer service over the phone. She described it as “no big deal” but I dk what that means. I’m sure that means my kids will watch a lot of tv but this is obviously not ideal but also not permanent.

I’m at the point where I’ve considered having the 4th and 6th grader stay home together For those two days a week and then doing the school work with her when I got home (but that’s not going to work)

So in a way she approached me about the scenario. I told her it wouldn’t make sense financially for me, bc daycare was going to charge 165 for those 2 days and her normal babysitting rate would exceed it. She said she wasn’t looking for anything crazy, just a little extra cash, and then suggested 100. I told her I would pay her $125. I think she wants a gig that will work for her and this will work for us.

Our schools haven’t announced whether they are 100% virtual or hybrid yet.

[mustardseed2007]

I joined a facebook group of parents in my area whose stated purpose is to connect parents who want to set up pods and connect educators with families and pods looking to hire teachers. It is the most anxiety inducing facebook group I've ever been a part of.