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Originally Posted by MissPinkBarbie  My babysitter charges $20 an hour.  It sure adds up, I tell ya!
The avg rate around here is $15-$20 an hour. |
Wow! That's steep. I think for our area, the 5 or 6 bucks plus $2.50 per additional child sounds more like what she could get. Even maybe $10 for two but I doubt she could get more.
I had 3 sisters (one newborn plus a 9 and 11 year old) that I babysat for about 4 years before they moved away. I had a standing once a week time when they went bowling plus full weekends when they went out of town. I got paid pretty well but that was over 20 years ago. I loved it though. They actually flew back from Florida for the girls to be in my wedding a few years later. And I saw the two older girls last year when they came back to town for their dad's funeral. Plus I had summer sitting jobs where the kids were a little older but their parents just didn't trust them to behave all day while they were at work. Those were easy! I'm hoping for my daughters to find families like that to babysit for on a regular basis.
Thank you all for your responses!