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We are currently paying our full time sitter $50 per day for one child. She watches LO at her home so it doesn't cause as much disruption to her schedule and she is able to watch her son and another little girl. This is a little higher than the going rate in our area. If I was having someone come to my home I would expect to pay more, and I would also expect that to be at least 50% higher for a second child. Maybe $10-12 per hour, depending on her experience and what she plans to do with the kids.

Before DD started daycare, I was paying between €10-12/hour. I had two different part time babysitters who would watch DD anywhere from 3-5 hours per day. I would only be comfortable with someone babysitting in my home (unless it was some sort of approved in-home daycare). If it's just infrequent sitting, I would pay hourly. If you need someone several times per week, I would probably do a day rate.

I pay $30 per day for an in home day care in (very rural) Colorado. I'm not sure yet what the cost will be for a second child. I need to find out since LO2 is due in just a few weeks!

The back up in home daycare that we use is $3.25 per hour per kid.

I would expect to pay about $100-120 per day. I live in Boston though and child care is very expensive.

We pay our babysitter, who is a nanny in the neighborhood, $20/hr for two kids. I haven't asked about 1 child rates but i'd probably still pay $20/hr if we took the baby with us. Shes not OUR nanny so we don't have a day rate established.

It is all relative, I think. If you earn $15 per hour, you'd want to pay less than that, right?

I'd put an offer out there at the amount you want to pay and see if you get any interest.

We currently pay 115/week for fulltime daycare at an inhome daycare in the Midwest. This is actually on the low-end for the area, it's normally closer to 130-150 for in home and 180 for center. we got lucky.

Our ladies charge $50/day

$80 - 130 per day for one child.

My sitter, who is a high school senior that lives right next door and is kind of the "neighborhood babysitter," charges $10 an hour. When we recently had a nanny for a brief period at the beginning of the year, she was $13 an hour.

We pay $82/day for an in-home daycare outside of Boston. It's the cheapest around by a long shot.

My BFF used to watch LO for $50/day for us 2 days/week. I'm not going to lie, I think she was ridiculously cheap for watching LO all day. I know she charged me less b/c she was my BFF.

I expect $100/day minimum for in home nanny for one child in our area.

Wow! I just read through the replies and I feel like I'm paying an arm and a leg. I live in the SF Bay Area and I pay $21/hr for two kids and I would say that's about the going average rate. For one child, we paid $16/hr.

Our nanny takes care of the kids at our home 3 days per week/10 hours per day, so that adds up to $210 per day, but we also provide sick days, vacation days, and holidays and regular cash bonuses.

Like @sooz I live in the bay area as well and I am just mind boggled by how inexpensive childcare is for some of you! I'm currently pregnant and just started the hunt for childcare, and the going rate for a nanny out here is *at least* $15 an hour, and most in-home daycares are around $90 a day. This is for one child.

At our daycare full time kids pay $47/day and part timers/drop ins pay $50.