What is the going rate for a teenage babysitter in the outer suburbs (Reston / Herndon / Dulles / Chantilly)? She will be watching two kids - 4yo boy and 14 month girl. We are new to the whole weekend babysitter thing because we have always used our au pair for this. TIA!
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$10/hour |
We pay $15 for a 15 year old to watch two children, 6 and 8. Fairfax County. |
In upper MoCo, I pay my 15 yo babysitter $10 (one kid), but always round up and give a little extra. |
I live in Potomac Falls/Cascades area and pay $10 for our 3 year old, but will probably pay $12 when DC2 arrives soon. This is for a college student though - I would think $10 for 2 kids would be fine for HS. |
we have a couple girls we've used from our neighborhood - I recently reluctantly paid $10/hour. I think that is the going rate in my hood. Highway robbery IMHO. |
I live in Reston - sorry |
We pay $15 per hour for one toddler. We live in the Ashburn/Dulles area. |
We pay our sitter $10 an hour to come over while our son is sleeping already (weekend nights). If he's awake, $15 an hour. |
Vienna - evidently the girls at Madison High School earn anywhere from $8-$12/hour. |
Montgomery county - $10 / hour for one baby |
Ashburn - we pay our teenage neighbor $10/hr for our 2.5-year-old twins (already sleeping). |
Is this common? To pay a different rate when kids are sleeping versus awake? Just curious because we have yet to have a babysitter and just want to know what people do now days. |
I believe that we are complicit in training our teenagers to be lazy and greedy by paying them these high rates.
Teenagers, who either can earn minimum wage or perhaps not even locate a job at all, should be honored at the opportunity to prove themselves as responsible, and to start an employment record. That's how my parents taught me, anyway....I remember they made me keep sitting for this family who paid me $1 per hour (the going rate at the time was more like $3/hour). They thought it would build character for me, and looking back, I have to agree. Anyway....we pay our high-school babysitters $8/hour for watching our kids. The few teenagers we've worked with who prove themselves to be reliable and excellent start getting a little more. For teenagers we are also usually picking them up and dropping them off, as well as ordering in any food that they want, and they should recognize that those things are benefits that most employers don't give. |
In the close-in MoCo suburbs: We paid $8-10 for one kid, now $10-12 for 2, depending on the sitter's experience (they're all high school or college kids) and whether the kids are awake or asleep. |