Hourly rate for travel time
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Anonymous
| Our regular babysitter is coming with us to a family wedding. Very long (6+ hours, connecting flights) travel involved. I'm sure this has been asked a million times, but what hourly or fixed/daily rate do people pay for travel time? We are planning to pay her normal rate of $26/hr for the hours she works. |
Anonymous
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You pay the regular hourly rate for travel time as far as trains/cars/planes etc.
if you mean how much for the entire trip I would do reg hourly rate plus $100-$150 per night flat rate. But ask her too. |
Anonymous
| You pay her normal hourly rate for the entire time expect sleeping as long as she's not expected to wake up with the kids if they wake up in the middle of the night. Don't be cheap. |
Anonymous
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You pay her normal hourly rate for the entire trip , minus overnights if she has her own hotel room. You also have to pay her airfare and give her a stipend for food and incidentals. She is working the entire time she is with you guys, even if she is on a different flight than you.
If you went on a business trip , and your boss charged you a day of PTO for the travel day, would you think that’s fair? No. This is a work trip for her. If she’s only working a few hours a day for the weekend, and otherwise she is off on her own sightseeing, you could offer paying for an 8 hour work day as opposed to paying for all waking hours. But if she is hanging out with your family all day, then you gotta pay. |
Anonymous
| You pay regular rate 24/7 plus expenses. |
Anonymous
Seriously? I don't think you pay them to sleep unless they are responsible for the children. But yes, standard babysitting rate for travel hours. |
Anonymous
| You have to pay her rate for travel. The opportunity cost of her traveling is that she cannot take another client job during that time, since she's traveling with your family. |
Anonymous
Yes you pay them for the entire time they're there. You're paying them to be available to babysit your kids. This is not some vacation they picked for themselves. |
Anonymous
I agree she needs to be paid for all waking hours plus food stipend since she doesn’t have the opportunity to cook from home. But she doesn’t need hourly rate for overnight UNLESS she is in charge of wakeups or sharing hotel room with kids . But yeah, she can’t take an evening sitting job the way she could at home, so you need to pay her for all the time she is awake (like 16hr: day) if she is a nanny. If she is a high school aged babysitter you can very likely offer less- such as hourly rate for when she is sitting, plus an extra hundred a day. But that’s only for a teen. |
Anonymous
| I would pay her regular rate of $26 for each hour spent traveling. If it ends up being over 40 hours in the week, then I would start paying overtime as required. I would also pay for her airport meals and snacks. |
Anonymous
This. We have only done 2 trips so far but offer $100 per night and then pay her hourly rate for all hours worked including travel. The people saying you pay for all waking hours even if she’s not working are being ridiculous. However, you should make sure you and the babysitter are on the same page in advance. If she’s staying in the same house as you, it can get murky what are “working hours” vs just hanging out, so in that case you may want to just specify 8 hours or whatever is reasonable. We gave our nanny the option to come on family outings (IE the zoo) where we’d pay for all food/admission fee, or just have free time - she came on one outing and went shopping/hung out at home during the other outings, but she was able to babysit at night so that we could go to dinner! |
Anonymous
| We paid a driver $20 per drive, it was 30 min round trip. Plus a bonus at the end of the month. It was a Montgomery college student in mid 20s. Worked around the college classes |
Anonymous
You pay the same rate for travel. Why would you think you you can pay less. This is still her time that is being spent on you. |
Anonymous
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I've done the below for several nannies and they've all been happy with it
- Regular rate for all working hours - working hours are anything where our needs are determining what you're doing with your time (so that would include travel, staying with the kids while their asleep, and all the regular nanny work of course) - $100-$150 a night flat rate even though they're not watching the kids over night. The one time I had someone staying over at the house to watch the kids i paid $150 from 8pm - 6am - I do not do a meal stipend b/c we are always at airbnbs. I buy them whatever groceries they want, invite them with us for any meals we're eating out, and tell them to feel free to change any other meals out to our card. No one has ever abused this, its usually like one $30 meal. It is expensive! |
Anonymous
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Yes I concur that you should pay your Nanny her regular, hourly rate even when traveling.
And if she is not in charge of your kids overnight + they do not wake up, etc. then a flat rate would be appropriate vs. hourly. Traveling w/a Nanny can be SUPER expensive! ✈️ |