How much do you pay for child care?

[ejpint]

I know it's early, but just for funsies, I started looking at daycare costs in our new city, so we can start planning a future budget, etc. I knew it was going to be expensive, but...Holy God, I almost choked. And I'm in LCOL!

I know this can vary wildly based on COL, type of care, etc., and it's been discussed before back on TN, but share, please. Feel free to include any other relevant details (center/in home/nanny, COL, PT vs FT, infants or older, etc.)

[h]

We paid $1170/month for full-time infant care in a center in 2010. MCOL.

[Brie]

Ours is $240/week for a full-time infant at a daycare center.

It is the most expensive place in our area, but the other places have waiting lists. The one I like the best is $200/week and we're hoping to get in there eventually.

[Ashley&Scott]

$230/wk for an infant at a center

I think it goes down $10 or $15/week at age 2...

[oregonpachey]

When DS was in childcare, we paid $115/week for four days full time. HCOL area.

We were very very lucky. It was an in-home daycare and she was very good. I was sad when we left there.

[egishere]

$2400 a month for nanny- 3 infants. 35-40 hours a week and she works Mon-Thur. MCOL. Once they go to school then we can save for college

[madringal]

I have a nanny that comes to my house 2-3 days a week with her 10 month old son. my MIL keeps them the other days and we do not pay her. I pay the nanny $80/day when she has both my girls (4 and 6 months). In the fall it will be just DD2 and then I will pay her $50/day. But full day Pre-K is $267/month

So total it is about $800/month for the part time nanny and full time PreK

[ijack]

an infant in our area runs about $400-450/wk at a center (and then drops down each year to about $300 when they're 3). our nanny makes about $450/wk for both girls. MCOL

[dcrunnergirl]

My in-home DCP is $250/week for most kids (we get a sibling discount, so we would actually pay $225/week for each kid). This includes breakfast, lunch, milk, and two snacks each day after the kids turn 1 year old.

[wordtothewise]

an obscene amount for a nanny. But we love her.

[Deleted]

Our childcare is cheeeeeap.

I promise she still takes good care of my kid. Care here ranges from about $500 - $800/month for a FT spot for a 12 month old.

[lmb5109]

I have called 4 in my area that we will start looking at in Sept, they range from $200/wk (church) - $310/wk (center). I just NW of Chicago.

[psyck]

The boys start in a few weeks, we'll pay $1950 per month for both of them.

[Deleted]

At my current daycare, it would be approx $170 a week for an infant.

[karinothing]

$1820 a month. We are on the higher end (but it is next door to my work so I pay for convenience)

[grk2012]

DS will be in Pre-K at a center; right now we're looking at $660-$850 per month depending on how many days he goes.

[Mushe]

$290/week in a center. MCOL, I think.

[nabum]

1600/mo for our nanny - she works roughly 32 hours a week. HCOL

[moandjo]

1330/month for infant
1080/month for 3 year old

MCOL center.

I don't like to think about it. Things will get better each year as they git older.

[catbus]

Our center will cost $1558/month. And that's the discounted rate (~25% less than the public rate of $2100). *Edit* Discounted for employees of H's gigantic empire of a company. We're in Seattle, so HCOL. Average cost at centers around here is $1600/month.
We'll save time and money over other centers because this one is in H's building, so he'll continue to commute by bus with baby in carrier, drop at daycare, then pick up at the end of the day. No worries about getting stuck in traffic and having to pay for late pick-up.

[cricketwife]

I just did the same as you last month and was like

It was 1000-1200/month (well, actually per 4 weeks) and we're MCOL. But those places have wait lists so I don't even know if we could get my future/hypothetical child(ren) in.

[greekypie]

$1200 or so for FT toddler care in a daycare center. I am in Atlanta (MCOL I guess?), and this is essentially downtown.

[pierogigirl]

$217/week (times two). Infants and toddlers are the same. Pre-schoolers are $10 a week less. They provide snacks and we provide everything else.

[otowngirl]

$180 / wk now that she's in the 2-year old room. It's $200 / wk for infants I think.

[oukapu]

190 a week. Naeyc and really good. Across the street from my work.

[Deleted]

$310/week plus an additional $17.50 a week for lunches (just doing this until things settle down at work and I can make her lunches again). It was the same price for infants, but goes down when she finally goes into the preschool. Probably next summer.

HCOL but not VHCOL

[teacherjulie]

We use inhome care and pay 35 per day Alice goes four days a week so her total is 140. Once she starts preschool the price is 25 per day.

[froggy76]

We pay $1145/month for infant care at a small Montessori school. MCOL.

[fortmyersbride]

A little over $500/wk for a nanny, 34hrs/wk. She watches DD all day, and DS when he's not at half-day PS.

When I worked full time I paid about $750/wk for a nanny for DS, about 60-65 hrs/wk.

[atouchofklasse]

We used to pay $362/week and now have moved and pay $290/week, which will decrease to $260/week when LO leaves the infant room. M-HCOL. Includes all meals, snacks, milk, and the first place included Enfamil as well.