I was offered a job full time babysitting a 4 year old little girl!?

Question

The parents would like me to come to their house which was not in my original plan! I am quitting my job to be able to stay home with my youngest. However, I am willing to do it but I need to give her an hourly rate. I would be babysitting her 10.5 hours a day starting @ 5:30 am SOME ONE PLEASE give me some advise I am meeting with her today @ 6

Answer 1

I have a day care in my home and I charge $125 a week and I'm open 7:30 am to 5:30 pm Monday- Friday. I would not worry about an hourly rate, I would charge a flat weekly fee and be done with it. Since you're talking about almost 53 hours of work each week I would not ask for less than $135 a week, that's about $2.50 an hour. If your goal is to stay home with your child, which is one of the reasons I started, I would insist that she bring the child your house. You have your own child to care for and you do not need to fool with getting your child up and ready at 5:00 in the morning so you can get to work on time. She needs to come to you, that is an ungodly hour in the morning, hahahha. Seriously though, she does need to come to you, if they need someone that early in the morning they should consider a personal nanny. Rarely do you find larger day care centers that are open so early and even the home day care providers I know, 7 am is the earliest. It sounds like that are asking a little too much and they need to concede on the location or find something more personal like a nanny. If you want to work at home, stick to your guns. If this woman doesn't agree, there are PLENTY of other parents out there who are looking for caring, quality, home child care and would jump at the chance for you to watch their children. Please feel free to email me through Yahoo Answers if I you have any questions. I would love to help if I can.

Answer 2

I would give her two choices, since you did not plan on going to her house. Choice one that she bring her child to your house for less money a week--I would say around 250-300 dollars a week or 4.76-5.71 an hour or choice two you can come to her house for 350-400 dollars a week or 6.67-7.62 an hour. I would make sure that you set a weekly rate and not hourly (that is usually how daycare works) also set your hours make sure that it is no more then 11 hours a day otherwise your hourly pay will go down, have an extra fee if the child is not picked up on time, set up wether you will be paid for holidays (which most in home care providers are) and also if her child is sick and she cancels you should be paid for that day, if you call in for some reason you shouldnt be paid. Make rules for sickeness, I would check out state childcare policy on sickness and base your guidlines after that. After you two have discussed your policy, put it in writing including a two week notice of termination of care, and have both parents sign it. This will protect you, trust me, my friend got screwed when she didnt do this.

Answer 3

Most parents do not have a problem with babysitters
bringing their own children,infact some perfer it b/c
of the interaction.As far as the rate goes you will have to see how indipendent the child is.If I am not wrong the rate is around 3.50 an hr.I have a friend who babysits older school kids she only waches them a couple of hrs a day and provides snacks afterschool.She charges
100.00 a week .10.5hrs and 5:30 am I would charge
around 250 a week.Good Luck!

Answer 4

If you are quiting you job to stay home with your child. Than I would suggest that you let her know right away that you are interested in having her child come to your house. Or maybe you could ask if you could come there half a day and then you could go to your house half a day. That way both children are getting to stay in their own environment each day. I guess I'm just assuming that she is letting you bring your child with you. If not than I would just tell her that you are not interested if you can't bring your child. On the hourly rate is this something that she plan on you and her claiming on taxes or is it something that will not be claimed. If it's to be claimed I would charge about $150 a week if it's not going to be claimed than I would charge about $110. Good Luck!!!

Answer 5

some of the rates people gave u on here were outrageous. its possible that some people cant afford a regular day care. hence hiring someone else for cheaper. $150.00 a week? um thats high as hell for someone 2 do it at home. they charge that much for a day care where they actually do activities and interact with other kids. keep in mind your doing it for extra money and are staying home with your child anyway. be reasonable. or you can start the conversation with her asking how much were you thinking about paying per day, week or whatever. then u know from there if the rate you were thinking of is higher or lower than that. discuss, cuz thats the only way u will know.

Answer 6

There are benefits both ways...but I wouldnt' want to spent 11 hours a day at someone else's house. You'll probably be expected to clean up after the child, and cook and clean in their kitchen which again, you'll be expected to clean. You're practically a nanny by then. And if your child is over there, what kind of behavior is the girl going to have? Is she going to be rude about someone playing with her toys, is she going to be offended that someone is in her 'space'?

I would ask for something like $300 dollars a week at your own house, at someone else's it might be less because it's their materials and their own food. i was babysitting a friend's child and I charged her $100 a week to be at my house and they provided all foods and snacks.

good luck, I'd think of my own child first.

Answer 7

Babysitting on a regular basis, you never really get minimum wage.. I would say $5/hr and then go from there. If you have to stay home anyways, then you may as well make some money while you're at it. If you'd rather do it in your own home,tell her that and offer to have her andthe littel girl over for a visit to see that she approves of the switch between her home and yours!

Answer 8

I guess I don't have a particular rate, but you should make sure that since you are coming to her house, she's going to have the food to provide...then you'll want to take into consideration bringing your own food for your daughter.

If you ended up taking care of her at your house, you'd charge a little more, because you'd be providing the meals, but probably want to charge a little less if you are using her food....My daycare person charges me 160 a week, but she only has my son for 8 hours, not 10.....but she provides food too....

Answer 9

This is something that you and her are going to have to work out. If she originally said that she would bring the child to you, then you need to talk with her and say hey we origanally planned for your child to come to me. After all I do have a son that needs to be taken care of.

You can ask if your son can come with you, but the answer is likely going to be no.

You may have to tell her you will have to decline the job if you can't bring your son with you or if she simply refuses to bring her child to you.

I know this is difficult, but it may not be the best situation if she does not really want your son around. With all that goes on with baby sitters these days you cannot blame her for wanting the baby sitter to come to her home.

Answer 10

If you are doing this to stay home and raise your child, then I would ask this mom if it is alright for you to bring your child with. If she says no, then DON'T take the job. This would defeat the purpose of taking the new babysitting job.