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Babysitting whats fare?
My son and his girl both work at the U.S post office and both makes good money, but they live in different homes,They make from $20.00 to $25.00 an hour. They have asked me to keep their 6 month old daughter from 6.am to 8 or 9 p.m. at night I am
concidering it since she is my grand daughter, and I have ask for $1,00.00 for three to four day a week because of the long hours, they think this is unfare and wants to give me $75.00 a week,I told them that they can split the money and it would be less $5 dollors a hour, which one do you think is fare. I told them if they take her to a day care it would be much more and they would have to pay overtime for any time over 8 hours, and also get someone to pick her up after 6 o'clock when they close.
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- Prodigy556Lv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
You need to ask for what you think is fair. You know what your services are worth and should be proud of that. It is hard to deal with family, but you should at least be getting $5 an hour, and even that is being taken advantage of.
You need to remember that a private sitter(which is what you would be), especially for an infant, is going to be more than a daycare. In a daycare their child is going to be one of a group of infants and not get the individual attention.
They are not just paying you for the care of their daughter, but for you time. Personally I think most peoples time is worth more than $5 an hour.
I think you should give them your price and tell them if it does not suit them, you will not be insulted if they look for another sitter. God knows they are not going to find any private(good quality) sitter for less than $7-15 an hour for an infant.
- Haven_SummersLv 61 decade ago
I think if they provide formula, food, diapers and wipes asking for 100 per week is more then fair. It could be alot more if they went thru a daycare. Also get prices on diapers food, formula, and wipes write them down then figure in how much that would take off from the total of 75$. This just might show them that its not going to be enough for provisions for the baby to have. Im a stay at home mom so Im my kids daycare lol. But I wish you alot of luck I hope they dont fight you to much with this.
Source(s): Mom of 2 - 1 decade ago
We pay $200/week for full-time preschool. The school feeds our daughter breakfast, lunch and two snacks. We provide pull-ups (they have wipes). School is open from 6:30-6:30, but we take her from 7-5.
At that rate, we are paying $4/hour.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
I think they are trying to take advantage because they think that since you're the grandmother you would feel obligated. When my daughter was that young I paid $190/week at one center then switched her to another center for $235/week (it was more convenient and clean). I had to provide diapers and formula.
Now my daughter is 2 and I pay $150/week and I have to provide diapers and lunch. But I'm not leaving her there for 14 hours.
You need to tell them that you don't mind doing it but you need to have adequate and fair compensation.
p.s. I didn't know working for the post office was so demanding.
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
I think that is fair. I pay $81.65 for three 9 hour days. Even if I pick my daughter up early or drop her off late I still have to pay for the 9 hours.
