How much would you pay a babysitter for Friday evening to Sunday afternoon?

[Anonymous]

$20/hour the whole time? Or slightly less per hour?

[Anonymous]

If the kid wakes up in the middle of the night, the babysitter has to deal with it. We pay the hourly rate for each hour they are working, i.e. the whole time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the kid wakes up in the middle of the night, the babysitter has to deal with it. We pay the hourly rate for each hour they are working, i.e. the whole time.

Thanks! That's helpful.

[Anonymous]

Absolutely depends on if the kids sleeps through the night reliably. If not, pay the same hourly the whole time, or reduced overnight hourly. If yes, you can get away with a break in running the clock overnight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Absolutely depends on if the kids sleeps through the night reliably. If not, pay the same hourly the whole time, or reduced overnight hourly. If yes, you can get away with a break in running the clock overnight.

Does an average of $17/hour for each hour (for two kids over 10 years old) sound reasonable?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Absolutely depends on if the kids sleeps through the night reliably. If not, pay the same hourly the whole time, or reduced overnight hourly. If yes, you can get away with a break in running the clock overnight.

No. Unless you're ok with the sitter leaving the house overnight. Or getting drunk. If you require that the sitter is there, non impaired, and ready to deal with an emergency, you have to pay her.

[Anonymous]

We’ve paid the hourly rate for hours the kids were awake then $100 for each overnight. Kids were older (tweens) and do not wake up at night.

[Anonymous]

We have paid $25 an hour (two little kids, 1 and 3) for every hour she’s there regardless of whether she’s sleeping or not. It was expensive but I really had to be sure she’d show up.

[Anonymous]

I paid $1000 flat for this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Absolutely depends on if the kids sleeps through the night reliably. If not, pay the same hourly the whole time, or reduced overnight hourly. If yes, you can get away with a break in running the clock overnight.

No. Unless you're ok with the sitter leaving the house overnight. Or getting drunk. If you require that the sitter is there, non impaired, and ready to deal with an emergency, you have to pay her.

+1. Awake or asleep, if she can’t leave then she’s working.

We pay our regular nanny a flat rate of $400 for overnight days (24 hours or any part of 24 hours) for one child. So Friday evening to Sunday afternoon would be $800.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Absolutely depends on if the kids sleeps through the night reliably. If not, pay the same hourly the whole time, or reduced overnight hourly. If yes, you can get away with a break in running the clock overnight.

No. Unless you're ok with the sitter leaving the house overnight. Or getting drunk. If you require that the sitter is there, non impaired, and ready to deal with an emergency, you have to pay her.

+1. Awake or asleep, if she can’t leave then she’s working.

We pay our regular nanny a flat rate of $400 for overnight days (24 hours or any part of 24 hours) for one child. So Friday evening to Sunday afternoon would be $800.

+2. Same but $450 a day (nanny’s travel rate) for two kids. So $900 for the weekend.

[Anonymous]

I'm a nanny and I charge a flat rate. For kids that sleep reliably through the night, I charge $250 a day (a steal for the parents) and for kids that don't sleep reliably at night, I charge by the hour when I'm awake with them and a flat rate overnight of $50-75 depending on how much sleep I get. I try to make it a good enough deal that I'm making a chunk of cash, but low enough that the parents will still want to do it because it's not going to break the bank.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a nanny and I charge a flat rate. For kids that sleep reliably through the night, I charge $250 a day (a steal for the parents) and for kids that don't sleep reliably at night, I charge by the hour when I'm awake with them and a flat rate overnight of $50-75 depending on how much sleep I get. I try to make it a good enough deal that I'm making a chunk of cash, but low enough that the parents will still want to do it because it's not going to break the bank.

No offense PP, but charging only $50-75/night is selling yourself really short in compensation.

Unless of course, you have to share a bedroom at home and get your own room while on the job.

Otherwise that is just not enough money to justify sleeping in someone else’s bed.