high school babysitter

Re: high school babysitter

• northtamarack member

  August 2013

  This is one of the main reasons why we don't have a babysitter -  I have no idea what to pay!  I am guessing that the $2 I made in high school is no longer the going rate! :-) 

  
  

  

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• RachieTK member

  August 2013

  I live in a NYC suburb and the going rate is $15 for a HS sitter.

  

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• LoCarb member

  August 2013

  Low cost for an infant I would think $8-10/hr
  

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• jf198400 member

  August 2013

  We live in a MCOL area and pay a college age sitter $10-12 for 2 kids. For a high schooler with only 1 kid in LCOL I would go $8/hr. At any other PT job they'd probably get minimum wage and taxes taken out, so I think $8 is fair.

  
  
  
  
  

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• jc&cat member

  August 2013

  we pay $10/hr for my 16 year old neighbor to watch the kids. When I say "watch" i mean we put them to bed and she sits on the couch with the monitor while we go out. Not a bad gig.

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• court115 member

  August 2013

  I'm also in a MCOL and I pay our occasional babysitter $10/hour. She asked for $9 but I didn't feel like getting change when it came time to pay here so I just rounded it up to an even $10.

  

  
  

  

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• BeachBum73 member

  August 2013

  Our babysitter is 14 and only charges $5/hr (we're in the Chicago suburbs).  Our college-age babysitter charges $10/hour.
  

  
  
  

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• Leap08 member

  August 2013

  We live in a pretty LCOL area and we pay our high school sitter about $7 an hour for two kids. I asked her when she first started sitting and she said, "Oh whatever you think is reasonable." I think we actually pay her more than other people she sits for. I'd honestly just ask what the sitter expects.
  

  

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• preggersin2011 member

  August 2013

  Both times i've paid for a sitter i paid 10 bucks an hour plus rounded up since it was a saturday night. I've only done a sitter when I couldn't make leaving LO at a friend's house, basically knowing i wouldn't be home to close to midnight. I know when I was in high school I got paid 7/hr which was ten years ago.
  

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• litzo27 member

  August 2013

  Add my vote to the $8 per hour for high schooler.
  

  
   

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• iverske9 member

  August 2013

  7-8 bucks an hour

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• groovygrl member

  August 2013

  $8 for a sleeping baby for sure.
  We have paid $10 for our neighbor but she is watching 2 four yr olds which is a lot more work than a baby or sleeping baby.
  

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• dliz87 member

  September 2013

  I live in NJ. The going rate is $12 an hour, always rounding up.

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• dizzycooks member

  September 2013

  I pay our 7th grade friend's kid $5/hour and her parents insist it's too much.  She's always happy with it and DD is usually sleeping half the time she's here.  

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