How much are those living in an urban area paying for a sitter? Not a regular, reoccurring scheduled sitter, but like a date night sitter. Do you pay for their parking (if applicable) or is that included in the hourly rate?
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$15/hr. Sometimes we get a high schooler to sit at the house after LO goes to bed. We pay $12/hr for that.
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$15-$20/hour. If they had to pay for parking we would pay for it.
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We pay $15/hour, but that's kind of a steal in our area*. Our nanny charges $20/hour for date night babysitting and most of my friends pay in the $17-$20/hour range.
*I should add some specifics - we have a group of 3 women (all roommates) who sit for us. They are all about 23 and have real jobs, but babysat a lot in college (in our city) and like the pocket money. We pick 2 Saturdays a month we want a sitter and whomever is available shows up. We live in a really hip neighborhood and are home by about 10:30, so our sitter is usually dressed to go out when we get home and goes out from there (with her bar tab all set from our babysitting gig). It's kind of a perfect system.
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There's a local college near me that has a babysitting service that we will probably get sitters from. It's $15/hour
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$15-20 an hour seems to be the going rate! parking is not an issue, but I would pay for a cab home at night.
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I picked up a babysitting gig for a friend who recently moved away. I sat for a woman we both used to work with.
We didn't talk money before they left and I have to say, I was SHOCKED when I got the check when they got back.
It's about $15-20 here too, and I'm about 20 miles from an urban area.
And to think I charged a dollar a kid when I was a teenager...
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excellent! i'm sitting for a friend of my brother's saturday night & wasn't sure if nanny rates differed from date night sitters, but it sounds like it's about the same. not my ideal saturday evening, but with mr. bird unemployed, i'll hang out & watch movies for $20/hr while their LO sleeps
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$20 an hour sounds high to me, especially if it is in the evening when the child is sleeping and the sitter will be reading or watching tv. Unless it is really last minute or the child is a terrible sleeper, I think $15 is reasonable. I am relatively new to San Diego so I asked around and the parents I asked said $12-13 an hour is the norm here for babysitting rates, and a little higher than that for nanny rates. I interviewed a couple of college students as babysitters and they also quoted me $12-13 an hour.
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@septca: this sounds like a grown up version of the Babysitters' Club! I can just imagine Stacey, Claudia, and Dawn as roommates and doing this!
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@HabesBabe: Thats exactly what I was thinking! Loved those books
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I need one of these babysitting jobs
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@HabesBabe: hi how are you feeling? Did you have your baby yet?
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