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Q for moms with 2+ kids....

hbach83hbach83 member
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Do you hire babysitters? If so, how old is your sitter and what do they charge for watching two kids? 

We want to hire one, but I feel like sitters charge a lot nowadays! When I was 12-16 years old and babysitting, I'd charge like 4/hr.... in browsing some ads for sitters recently, I feel like these sitters think having multiple kids to watch means getting a CEO salary! Yikes!

Thanks for your insight :)  

Mom to Jace (7/2004), Cade (2/2009) and baby girl (5/2019)

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  • ilovebijouilovebijou member
    We went to a wedding on Saturday and the other couple we went with have 2 kids- ages 2 and 4. They were paying their babysitter $11/hour. She usually gets $13/hour at her nanny job. This was in Champlin.

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  • MrsAshley16MrsAshley16
    Man, I don't even want think about it. When I was a teenager, I babysat just about every weekend, anywhere from 2-4 kids, and would walk away with about $20-$25! For like, 5/6 hours!
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  • mrs.bridgettkaymrs.bridgettkay member

    Our neighbor girl is a high school girl and she babysits for us.  I think we give her $6/hour.  With having her watching two in the futur we'll probably do $7-$8/hour.  I checked with our neighbor who has three kids and uses the neighbor girl.  This is along the lines of what she suggested.

    I should also add the neighbor girl has only watched Harper in the evenings so basically she's spending an hour or two with Harper and then Harper's in bed.

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  • hbach83hbach83 member

    imageMrsAshley16:
    Man, I don't even want think about it. When I was a teenager, I babysat just about every weekend, anywhere from 2-4 kids, and would walk away with about $20-$25! For like, 5/6 hours!

    Yeah, same here!

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    I should also add the neighbor girl has only watched Harper in the evenings so basically she's spending an hour or two with Harper and then Harper's in bed.

    That's true, most of what we'd need is in the evenings as well, I should take that into consideration for sure.

    I think the $6/hr sounds reasonable. I've been hearing a lot of double digit hourly figures thrown out there in this quest, and I thought that was really high. Glad I'm not the only one! 

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  • ElizabethDElizabethD

    Basically if you don't want a young kid (ie, under 18) then you're paying at least $10/hour.  I got a *HUGE* salary of $3.50/hour for a 1 month old, 2 year old, and 4 year old.  But my regular gigs of 2 kids used to pay $2/hour.

     I think some of the logic is a popular babysitter of driving age can get a job at Mcdonalds for $7.50, so to pay her LESS means she may not be interested.

    We never get out and there is a LOT I've missed in the last five years because we don't have the cash for the babysitter, let alone the money for whatever the heck we'd be doing going out.

    We get 3 dates a year, my parents babysit for our birthdays and anniversary.  I've started getting more aggressive with "random times", or guilting them a bit more to steal a few more dates here or there :P

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    imageElizabethD:

    Basically if you don't want a young kid (ie, under 18) then you're paying at least $10/hour.  I got a *HUGE* salary of $3.50/hour for a 1 month old, 2 year old, and 4 year old.  But my regular gigs of 2 kids used to pay $2/hour.

     I think some of the logic is a popular babysitter of driving age can get a job at Mcdonalds for $7.50, so to pay her LESS means she may not be interested.

    We never get out and there is a LOT I've missed in the last five years because we don't have the cash for the babysitter, let alone the money for whatever the heck we'd be doing going out.

    We get 3 dates a year, my parents babysit for our birthdays and anniversary.  I've started getting more aggressive with "random times", or guilting them a bit more to steal a few more dates here or there :P

    Yeah, that makes sense.

    And I hear you on missing out on a lot. I had my first son when I was 20, so most of my 20s have just flown by and I never got to do most of what I had hoped in that decade.

    I wish we had parental help. My parents are 400 miles away and his parents just aren't the babysitting type. There are issues there that cause us to not ask them/allow them to babysit. So that kinda stinks.

    Oh well - the quest will continue! :)  Thanks all, for your input!

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