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@JoJoGirl: Yeah, the $2700 ones were Bright Horizons. I'm sure there are some cheaper in home ones but since I wasn't really planning to go back, I didn't research too deeply (ha-- I just used the BH ones to demonstrate to DH that there was really no reason for me to go back!) I actually thought $1600 wasn't bad until I started reading this thread...
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@Mrsbells: the one thing I'm comforted by going to the new center is she will actually be eating their food b/c they have a better range of food choices and offer more fruits and veggies. Currently, while they provide food, I send her lunch and snacks daily.
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$1,350 per month for transitions (~2 to 3-1/2 years old) includes two snacks, and lunch per day plus two days per month of Gymboree for 5 days per week for 9+ hours per day inside the city limits of a major metropolitan.
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I live in a suburb if NYC. The going rate for an infant is about $2000-$2200 for a daycare, nothing included. And as the child gets older, they have "classes" that you have to pay extra for, like dance or drum circle. Sigh.
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@Foodnerd81: In this area, it's not! BH was the only place at that price. Most others were closer to $1800. $1600 is cheap
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The one in my town is around $700/month for E's age group, but I don't know if that includes meals and such.
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I live in Kentuckiana, and ours will be $766 a month for full time infant care. We provide diapers and bottles. I looked at a Bright Horizons school and that was going to be almost $1200 a month for infant care, which is more than I make in one pay period and also doesn't include meals and diapers.
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we use a Bright Horizons in the Boston area (city not suburbs). it is ~$1700/mo for 3 days for a toddler. I think infant full-time was over $3000 . . . insane!
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Goddard School in the NYC suburbs. We pay $1350/month for 4 days/week in the pre-toddler room. Doesn't include diapers or food, but they do offer "school snacks" at snack time.
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We live just east of downtown Toronto. DD is 23 mths now and we pay $1550 per month for the toddler room, infant room was $1640 - includes all food, no diapers.
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$700/week for an in-home nanny for our twins for approx 32 hours each week, comes out to about $20/hour. Kill me now, hate NYC prices!
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Ours is $1280 a month right now. Will go down to $1070 when he turns 2 in six months. We have to provide everything. For the SF Bay Area it isn't that bad.
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We pay $160 a week, so $640 a month in a medium city in NC. Food and wipes are provided.
All of the centers in our area are very comparable in this price range. It seems so expensive until I see what everyone else is paying!
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280 per week for a toddler in a center in the philly burbs. Snacks included but they are junky so I send my own.
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$1900 for infant care in the so cal area. It's insane.
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$1100-$1300 range. We're in a fairly large city in Colorado.
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We live in Oklahoma and pay $135 a week for in-home. That's a couple hundred less than some of the centers in our area.
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Suburb of NYC and we have an in-home daycare arrangement. We pay ~$1,300/month and will inculde food when he's a bit bigger, if we want. I will probablt continue to send food, though. Also, no diapers or wipes included.
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@bhbee: over $3k, holy cannoli!!!!!
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Just over $1,600 per month . . . it's mostly all-inclusive, save for things like uniforms.
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@mrs. wagon: I know it is really crazy! we decided to have a part-time nanny for the infant age so didn't pay it ourselves, but full-time care costs almost $40,000/yr at that age at these BH centers . . . I guess in the city there are enough parents who can pay that that they get away with it! also probably best not to do the math on what any of us pay on an annual basis . . .
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@bhbee: too late! I got my invoice for the full school year with two kids and just about fell over.. and ours is considered to be an affordable place! in the suburbs! haha. Wagon Sr. and I are very excited for when our kids are in school.. we're going to have so much money!!!
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@MsLipGloss: your daycare has UNIFORMS!?!??! Gah! Really!?
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Wow...I didn't realize I would need so many more choices above $1500/mo!!!!!!!
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I'm glad this second page has some higher prices, I was really surprised by how low page 1 was!
We pay $450 a week for 4 1/2 days for an in-home nanny in soCal ($1800 a month plus gas). In-home daycare would be cheaper for sure. Centers are the same or more.
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@mediagirl: starting at 18 months.
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My daughter is at a home daycare and they charge $850/month, which includes all food and milk. I just have to supply the diapers. My son goes to preschool and it's $1300/month, which includes breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack.
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We pay $850 a month for full time home daycare (7:30 AM - 5:30 PM). We bring diapers, wipes, creams and she provides all the food and milk. When LO used formula, we brought that as well. She actually makes really good food for the kids! Brown rice with fish and vegetables, oatmeal, fruit and crackers as snacks. We're really lucky!
Previously, we were sending him to a center for $1175 a month which is the norm in my area.
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I voted $500-700 but DD only goes 2x/wk. It is Mandarin immersion in downtown Boston. It includes breakfast, lunch and snack. Also, she started as a toddler. 5 days/wk for an infant is $1506/mo.
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DD won't start until the spring but we already have a spot saved for her. In-home care in southern Ontario is $37/day or approximately $800/month. That includes two snacks and lunch every day, but we need to provide diapers and wipes.
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Right now in small town Iowa we're something like $850/month for full-time center-based daycare. Next month when we move to "big" city Iowa we'll be just north of $1,000/month for the same kind of care. Our daycare includes all meals. Usually I miss our old life on the east coast, but not so much when I look at the cost of daycare!
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We live in Vienna, Austria and daycare is heavily subsidized (hello high taxes!). But, DS goes to a full day (8am-4pm) bilingual Montessori preschool and we pay a little less than $300/month, which includes food. Before he was potty trained we had to provide diapers and wipes. Just to note, if we had gotten a spot at a public school, daycare would have been FREE.
We lived in NYC before, and while I ended up SAH, we were looking at $2200-2400/month for full time care.
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@mrs. wagon: I called around to some daycares in Concord, where DH works, and got quoted $3300. I just laughed and said no thanks.
We will pay $1325/month at a center outside of Boston and will eventually include snacks and lunch. The other daycare we considered was $426/week, and while it was a little nicer building, I didn't get as good a feel from the staff and couldn't justify a difference of $120/week.
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Holy cow! These prices are crazy... there would definitely be NO POINT in me working if we had to pay something like that.
I don't have DD in daycare, but my MIL's daycare is two blocks away from us and she charges $34-$39 a day.
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some of the prices are insane and others are super inexpensive!
We are in Calgary, Alberta and daycare costs $1200. I think it may go down when LO turns 2. Breakfast, lunch and two snacks are included. We provide diapers and wipes. In-home daycares are about $700-900 here.
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