What is the average cost per week for a babysitter?

Question

What is the average cost weekly for a 6 month old for a babysitter. So far I can not find anyone under 245.00 a week. I live in maryland .

Answer 1

100 dollars a week, but that's not at a business, and 195 at kindercare.

Answer 2

That doesn't begin to represent the cost. 10 hours a week or more of separation from mother in the first 3 years of life, and especially in the first year, is incredibly damaging to children. The NICHD research backs up these 50 year old, consistently reproven, facts.

Human infants need their mother's milk on demand and her arms on demand. Brain cell connections are only formed when an infant is held and they are hardly ever held in day care. That is only one reason babies who enter care show significant intellectual, emotional, physical, and social problems. These problems even include that daddy approves less of the child, mommy is less attached to the child, and the child is less attached to the mother.

Attachment problems can lead to sociopathy and to depression and anxiety. An infant learns about the world from its experience with mommy. If mommy is reliable and responsive, the child learns the world is good. If the child aches for mommy all day long, hour after hour and day after day, the child learns that the world is a cruel place indifferent to her needs, and that her mother wants her to feel this way. (Young Kids think mom is perfect and wants everything that is happening to happen.)

Our babies are primates. Like all primates, their evolutionary need through early childhood is for a mother's near constant presence. The cost of not getting that is far greater than 245.00/a week. That thousand bucks a month would only be the beginning of the great cost to your relationship with your child and your child's health, intellect, and emotional well being.

Answer 3

Instead of stating upfront to a customer a set price for your babysitting services, perhaps take a reverse tactic in which you ask the client: "What do you think is a reasonable price to pay for my services?" I recall a story about my friend's repair of a computer in Beverly Hills which is a high-income area. He was about the charge the client a $50.00 per hour fee, however, before he could present the bill, the customer gave him $300 for his services because the customer felt that the service was valued according to his income level. And there's a lesson to be learned here. Why not temper your fees according to the income level of your clients, which in the long run is a much fairer way of operating your babysitting enterprise. Good luck!

Answer 4

I live in the midwest and so far we have averaged $17-$20 per day with small cost breaks for full time attendance. We average between $350 and $400 per month. Back here though our average wages are around $7-$12/hr.

Answer 5

I'm in NY and $245 would be cheap here. 'Family' day care places tend to be a bit cheaper than a large 'Kindercare' type place. I mean, minimum wage is over $5.00/hour so for full time 9 -5 (which is actually 7:30 - 6:00) it would be AT LEAST $50.00 /day. Hell, I pay a teenager across the street $10.00/hour to watch my two school aged kids! 10 years ago i was paying $1200 /month for one child to be in full time day care. Good Luck!

Answer 6

Wow that area is so expensive, Have you looked into all the possible ways you might do this like can you work from home?

Answer 7

108?