https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 29 May 2026 21:20:49 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fair-price-for-in-home-daycare#post-2603291 Fri, 12 Aug 2016 13:37:46 +0000 Banana330 2603291@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>man daycare is cheap where you live... ours is $107 per day... the cheapest you might find for infant (home care) would be about $50/day </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fair-price-for-in-home-daycare#post-2603288 Fri, 12 Aug 2016 13:29:36 +0000 Mrs. Champagne 2603288@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>In home here is around $35-40 a day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fair-price-for-in-home-daycare#post-2603283 Fri, 12 Aug 2016 13:23:56 +0000 BSB 2603283@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@pinkcupcake: Same here. I'm paying $16-25 per hour for my occasional nannies. I assumed if I went to a full time basis that I would have to pay at least $15 an hour. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fair-price-for-in-home-daycare#post-2406305 Thu, 31 Dec 2015 20:36:25 +0000 catomd00 2406305@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I pay $150 for 2 days to a SAHM in her home. FT at<br /> Our daycare was $275 a week. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fair-price-for-in-home-daycare#post-2406300 Thu, 31 Dec 2015 20:31:59 +0000 pinkcupcake 2406300@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@DesertDreams88: well, I don't know any daycares in my area that will watch your kid for $167 / week. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fair-price-for-in-home-daycare#post-2406275 Thu, 31 Dec 2015 19:51:03 +0000 DesertDreams88 2406275@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@pinkcupcake: That's $100 a day, which is $500 a week, which is $2000 a month. Lots of people can't afford that, at all. That's not a very standard rate for full-time SAHM side-job care unless you live in a very high cost-of-living area. Why would someone pay a SAHM mom $500 a week when they could pay a daycare $167 a week? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fair-price-for-in-home-daycare#post-2406252 Thu, 31 Dec 2015 19:21:25 +0000 pinkcupcake 2406252@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would never think to pay less than $10-12 per hour. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fair-price-for-in-home-daycare#post-2406182 Thu, 31 Dec 2015 17:50:24 +0000 blackbird 2406182@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Well, I pay $250/week and that includes food. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fair-price-for-in-home-daycare#post-2406145 Thu, 31 Dec 2015 17:02:08 +0000 Mrs. Pen 2406145@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We had a SAHM do care for our son, she had two other kids. We paid $130/week and that's very comparable to what we pay now for a licensed in-home provider.<br /> I live in the midwest, if that makes a difference. Oh, and this was for a preschool-age child. I'd pay more for an infant. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fair-price-for-in-home-daycare#post-2406139 Thu, 31 Dec 2015 16:54:29 +0000 Corduroy 2406139@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@babynumber1: It sounds like your friend would be taking on your LO and keeping her primary focus as SAHM rather than becoming an in home daycare provider that also watches her own kids. $100 a week but that sounds reasonable relative to daycare cost for that arrangement. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fair-price-for-in-home-daycare#post-2406047 Thu, 31 Dec 2015 15:03:05 +0000 MrsF 2406047@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <br /> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fair-price-for-in-home-daycare#post-2406039 Thu, 31 Dec 2015 14:56:35 +0000 babynumber1 2406039@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thanks everyone!<br /> @yoursilverlining: @DesertDreams88: @T.H.O.U.:<br /> We are in central NC in a medium sized city, so a reasonable cost of living area. We have a great center daycare that the older one is at which is on target with other centers in the area. </p> <p>I think we will offer $100 a week ($400 a month) and see if that is what she is thinking. I just didn't want to low ball her. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fair-price-for-in-home-daycare#post-2406035 Thu, 31 Dec 2015 14:53:23 +0000 oliviaoblivia 2406035@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had a similar situation and structured it like a nanny share.<br /> Figured out what a nanny share would be and split that cost and added a bit because she came to our house with her child. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fair-price-for-in-home-daycare#post-2406031 Thu, 31 Dec 2015 14:51:05 +0000 yellowbird 2406031@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had this exact situation for a while and paid 110 a week for my toddler and 140 a week for my infant. The sahm provided all food for my toddler. I provided everything else. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fair-price-for-in-home-daycare#post-2406005 Thu, 31 Dec 2015 14:28:05 +0000 runnerd 2406005@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For a short time we paid SAHM to keep our LO at $25/day on PT basis. It was more expensive on a daily basis than a licensed in-home daycare (which would have worked out to $20/day) and we were ok with that for the one on one aspect. </p> <p>And man do I miss that kind of daycare rate!!! It would cost $50-75 daily rate where we live now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fair-price-for-in-home-daycare#post-2406004 Thu, 31 Dec 2015 14:27:47 +0000 DesertDreams88 2406004@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I used this website to help me judge pricing, maybe your state has something similar? I found several sites like this.<br /> <a href="http://arizonachildcare.org/families/childcare-costs.html" rel="nofollow">http://arizonachildcare.org/families/childcare-costs.html</a></p> <p>Like @yoursilverlining: said, I would pay about 2/3 or 3/4 of the average weekly cost of daycare. I found it helpful to think in terms of weekly costs, not daily or hourly; since it's not a nanny/babysitter situation. </p> <p>It also is somewhat dependent on my salary. I didn't want to pay any more than 50% of my take-home salary. At that point, I start wondering why I bother working... (which is influenced by the fact that I'd like to stay home and I'm not in LOVE with my job....) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fair-price-for-in-home-daycare#post-2405990 Thu, 31 Dec 2015 14:14:48 +0000 yoursilverlining 2405990@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think paying 2/3 of the cost of a licensed daycare seems reasonable. </p> <p>With a lot of daycares you still have to provide food (especially for infants who are only drinking BM/formula), diapers, wipes, etc. so that wouldn't factor into my calculation at all, personally. </p> <p>And she's got 2 other kids so it isn't like you're paying for 1:1 nanny-type care. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fair-price-for-in-home-daycare#post-2405982 Thu, 31 Dec 2015 14:02:51 +0000 BandDmommy 2405982@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Silva: maybe it's the area but when I have a mothers helper and I'm still here and they are playing in basement I still pay $10 an hour. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fair-price-for-in-home-daycare#post-2405975 Thu, 31 Dec 2015 13:58:34 +0000 Silva 2405975@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@T.H.O.U.: I agree. I've considered watching a kid in my home and there is no way I'd expect someone to pay me 10.00 an hour. I would expect to make less than someone would pay a licensed in home daycare provider. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fair-price-for-in-home-daycare#post-2405972 Thu, 31 Dec 2015 13:54:40 +0000 T.H.O.U. 2405972@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I can understand paying a babysitter or a part time fill in sitter $10+ an hour. But if this is going to be a full time thing, and just a side activity for a SAHM, I doubt she's expecting to make $400/week. Also, due to what a local center would cost, it appears this is a lower cost of living area. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fair-price-for-in-home-daycare#post-2405969 Thu, 31 Dec 2015 13:47:45 +0000 Greentea 2405969@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would never pay less than $10 an hour. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fair-price-for-in-home-daycare#post-2405958 Thu, 31 Dec 2015 13:41:37 +0000 BandDmommy 2405958@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@babynumber1: $167 a week for infant care? Wow, that's so cheap. I had college student watch DD while she was on break, I paid her $12 an hour. I would pay a SAHM somewhere between $10 - $12 an hour. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fair-price-for-in-home-daycare#post-2405940 Thu, 31 Dec 2015 13:31:57 +0000 T.H.O.U. 2405940@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would think at least $100/week ($20/day). But I would offer maybe $150/week? </p> <p>I would also outline how exactly this is going to play out. Is she just putting the baby into her schedule (meaning, baby goes on errands, to the playground with her kids, gets woken from naps by loud older kids, etc). Or is the baby the primary focus and she is willing to stay home and tend to the baby first as a primary caregiver? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fair-price-for-in-home-daycare#post-2405933 Thu, 31 Dec 2015 13:27:52 +0000 creativemomma15 2405933@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My SIL pays a SAHM $30/day to watch her child. I'm pretty sure infant day care around here would be around $250/week at a good center. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fair-price-for-in-home-daycare#post-2405916 Thu, 31 Dec 2015 13:15:18 +0000 Silva 2405916@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A friend of mine is paying something like 35.00-40.00 a day for a similar situation. But seems like we might live in different cost of living areas because we pay 50.00 a day for in home care with a licensed provider. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/fair-price-for-in-home-daycare#post-2405910 Thu, 31 Dec 2015 13:10:20 +0000 babynumber1 2405910@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have a friend that may watch LO #2 when I go back to work. The goal is for baby not exposed to so many germs right away and to save some money. </p> <p>Daycare for LO #2 would be $167 a week. </p> <p>What would a fair price be for a SAHM with 2 children to watch LO in her home? I will provide all equipment, food, diapers, etc and It will be from 8:30-4:30 M-F. </p>