Childcare $$$ what are you paying?

Boston*bride · January 2014

@Tarynh75....have you begun your search? How is it going?

tarynh75 · January 2014

I have started and was using care.com, but it got to be too much to manage and work is crazy right now. I broke down and just signed up yesterday with an agency to help. More expense, but I am traveling constantly and just don't have time to have coffee with 5-10 candidates every weekend- especially when some don't show up!! How is yours going @Boston*bride?

Pollocklady · January 2014

This thread makes me appreciate being a nurse and only working 3 days a week. Holy shit! Quit your jobs ladies these numbers are insane.

melzh411 · January 2014

her assistants are her mom and daughter and I know the daughter works for college money so mama just pays her bills

so they work it out between them of course. but my child will be the only infant. she takes 1 at a time and the current one is 10 months old.

*sparky* · January 2014

Ths really varies a lot so as others suggested, you may want to ask on your local board. Where I live, DC centers run a lot more than in-home DC's. I assume you are talking about someone running a DC out of their house, where they may watch multiple children, not someone coming to watch your child in your home.

When DS was in a DC center as an infant, we paid $1,300/month, or roughly $300/week. The in-home DC's we looked at were about $150/week, so about half the cost. When DS had a nanny, we paid $100/day, or roughly $500/week.

macynsnoop · January 2014

We have only looked at 1 center so far. We loved it, it is located in the federal center but is not a govt run center. It is certified & the lady running the infant rooms has been there 30 years! Sold! It will run us 1500/month plus we provide wipes & diapers & snacks. This is a pretty typical cost for the area I live in, denver metro area.

kali55 · January 2014

I pay $850 per month for a dayhome for DS at the moment

hlm184 · January 2014

One of my coworkers last year quit her job to become a nanny and go back for her masters. She's making more as a nanny than she did as a public school teacher. Nice work, if you can get it!

Boston*bride · January 2014

@Tarynh75-- it's going *ok*. We were really hoping to find someone via referral...not sure where you're located but we have several friends who are residents/attendings in the boston medical community, which has almost like a network of nannies they all use or share or pass along when one of them finishes residency. But we haven't had any luck with a referral.

I too poked around care.com and found it so overwhelming. It's such a huge decision...on top of qualifications, etc. there's the dynamic with your family to consider, parenting philosophy (since they are practically like a third parent in terms of sheer hours logged with the LO). It's so daunting.

From a timing perspective, I did wonder where we should be....if I am due in April but go back three months later we are really looking at an August start. It feels early to be interviewing for August.

tarynh75 · January 2014

@Boston*bride I want the Nany to start in April- I am a FTM and am sure I will need the help. I also run a company, so while I won't be traveling for a couple of months, its not like I can just disappear off the face of the earth. I got two resumes today from the agency, and they set up the interviews, so they have already saved me some time. What do FT nannies cost in Boston?

mamahann · January 2014

My SIL has offered to be our nanny when I got back to work in July. We haven't talked cost yet and even though she's insisting we don't pay her we want to. We're thinking $250-$300 a week for 8 hours a day. Does this sound reasonable?

tarynh75 · January 2014

That sounds insanely cheap!!! That is less than $8/ hr. for 5 days per week. The going rate here is $18-$20/ hr. Get her signed up quick!, that's fantastic!!

Groffychris · January 2014

SF Bay Area - ranges from $1700-$2100. And that's average for 5 days a week.

jsoubel · January 2014

We pay $972 amonth, which includes a discount through DH's work. When DD2 goes, it will be the same rate (both kids under 2yo), but we get a20% discount on the older one. In total, we're paying over$1700a month. It's a Montessori daycare. Can't wait for DD1 to turn 2!

KatieKim0815 · January 2014

My son is in full on preschool 3x a week and it costs us $550 a month.

However we also use an occasional @ home provider and she's $30 a day for one kid or $50 for both!

Boston*bride · January 2014

tarynh75-- the going rate in Boston is pretty much the same. $15-$25/hour depending on experience and whether you're going to withhold taxes (some nannies will jack up their rate as soon as they hear you're going to take taxes out). We're trying to land around $3500/month. Although we both work crazy hours and I travel a lot, our hours don't entirely overlap so we think we can get away with 45 hours/week of care. While I'd love the help starting in April, we're trying to save the money!

Israfel · January 2014

I have often thought about quitting everything and becoming a high end nanny. One of my friends used to do this and still gets ads from her agency-- she said for someone like me(masters degree in a health field, fluent in another language, ivy grad) I could easily be making $200,000 to be a live in nanny for wealthy clients. In hindsight I wish I'd done that for a couple of years before having my own kids! Putting that money away would have helped to pay the subsequent daycare bills I'm going to incur! I do think a model like in Europe-- where the government heavily subsidizes daycare, and the workers all have MAs in childhood development and they are very well paid-- would make SOOOO much more sense. Studies have shown that for every $1 spent on early childhood education society gets $3 back in increased productivity from those kids when they are grown. It's just good financial sense to take care of the next generation and to provide them with a safe, educational, nurturing atmosphere.

tarynh75 · January 2014

No one is going to pay $200,000 a year for a nanny.... That is almost $100/ hr or $3800 a week. Plus, live in nannies make less than live out. Even at $20/ week for 60 hours a week, it is $1200 per week or $63,000 a year. The issue is that it costs us more like $100k in this country b/c we have to pay for childcare with after tax dollars. The government keeps taking away deductions, so we can only deduct around $3000 of that....it's nuts, but I am pretty sure staying home would drive me more nuts (please don't judge- I'm not judging anyone- just speaking for myself and I enjoy what I do)

scoassin · January 2014

We live on-base in Hawaii and the day care is subsidized by the government for base daycare. So daycare costs vary based on income (rank and other income are taken Into consideration). For my husband and I, it will run us about $700 a month for Monday to Friday (7am to 6pm). If we weren't military and living on base, the same service would cost us about $1800 a month on oahu.

hordol · January 2014

We just booked our daycare last week and it is $165/week for an infant (in home and in a cheaper suburb.) I went with a daycare next to work vs next to my home because it will save us $50 a week. Plus, one of my coworkers sent her kids to this daycare and can vouch for them, and that means more to me than anything. It does mean, though, that I can't share daycare responsibility with my husband and if I want to use the daycare on a day off to get things done, it's not that convenient. But...saving $50/week (200-250 a month!) is worth it.

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