Working moms come in please! (daycare costs)

tmp-459396750009209 · October 2009

I am trying to get back to work and am looking at what to do for DS. I have no idea what daycare costs. If you don't mind answering, what do you pay a daycare center or a babysitter/nanny? I would be needing 3 or 4 days a week.

TIA!

me&mymonkey · October 2009

$125 a week for 4 days. This is for an in-home dcp and it is more like 3-1/2 days since Fridays are half days.

JARbaby · October 2009

In-home licensed, 4 days a week.

$175 for C and $200/w for J.

8:30-4:30

KathrynMD · October 2009

This is very, very regional. In my area, full time daycare center care is 1400/month.

Call a few daycare centers and just ask them. You may also have a hard time w/ just paying for PT care.

MamaMyers22 · October 2009

I pay 50 dollars per day. He goes twice a week

dbertagni · October 2009

Wow, that is cheap. The reason I SAH is because daycare costs here are out of control. The cheapest center I found was $255 a week. The in home provider I was scheduled to go with was $1000 a month.

I found 1 lady that would do it for $170 a week, but she had a tiny house and it was very cluttered, I just didn't have a good feeling. Plus she wanted 3 weeks paid vacation/sick.

Mrs.AKP · October 2009

we're in Indiana too, in a large-ish town/city. Liam's at a center full-time. it's $740 a month. It's definitely not the cheapest place in town, but it's not the most expensive either. (actually, there are only a few places here that i know of that are more expensve, and they're between $800-$1000 a month).