Average price of daycare where you are?

Harperdawn · February 2015

I babysit from my house in nevada. I make 300 a week, 10 an hour. No paid vacation or sick days. Which is fine

but thats on the higher side. You usually only make about 2.50 to 5 an hour around here. I just got a job with a doctor, which is why I make good money.

louloutte87 · February 2015

Midlands, UK.

£160-170 per week for full time care
£21 for half a day
£35 for a full day

Just lurking from May, but can't believe how pricey some of this childcare is!

apeschka · February 2015

thepalindromicone said:
I know I'm one of the city people paying an ungodly amount of money for child care.... but some of these low prices (<$500-600/month!) make me feel nervous. Are you being nickled and dimed elsewhere, for example do you have to bring food for children eating solids and do they have a learning curriculum that they teach?</p>

It's $27 a day for me and they provide everything except diapers and they teach preschool and rates drop as they get older.

kayokosaeki · March 2015

Central NJ here... just looking at centers and it's like 1400-1600 for full time which is like double my rent. Wish I qualified for government help with child care. It's like you can't win if you're middle class in this state.

CarolineBean · March 2015

Philadelphia. $1000 a month on the low end Most decent places at least $1650/no.

lamiejamie · March 2015

North Texas...a center for a newborn is about $225 per week.

lamiejamie · March 2015

Daycare is more than my mortgage! That always drove me crazy with my son.

HMack4742 · March 2015

I'm in Calgary, Alberta Canada. Hourly rates are on average $50-$75/hr. I am finding most monthly rates start at about $1000/month and go up. It depends on the area here, too. My neighborhood is definitely on the higher end of the spectrum.

megmama · March 2015

California about 200/ week

Cateash77 · March 2015

Just to give you all more of a shock, in Australia here and a friend of mine was paying over $1000 per fortnight for her 3 year old and 6 month old to be in daycare three days a week. It was $220 PER DAY for them both! You get 50% back from the gov but that's not til the end of the financial year, she was essentially paying almost her entire salary in daycare. If you have two kids, quite a few people are in this situation. Wages here are very high, a nanny or mothers help would be $25 per HOUR so $250 per day, with no government rebate. I'm on my second and the only reason we will be able to afford me to return when this one is two as we plan, is because there is a six year age gap between kiddos.

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