Rate for college kid driving/ babysitting?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve had good luck with high schoolers. I don’t exactly pay an hourly rate. I pay $40 for a maximum Of 2 hours 45 mins. On Mondays I only need a sitter for 90 mins. We need someone 8 days a month generally and this has worked well for us.

Most camps won't let someone under the age of 18 sign out the kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You’re better off finding an old lady for this kind of hours not a college student

+1. We did a few years ago at $35/hr with a min./guarantee of 12 hours per week.

[Anonymous]

How old are your kids, OP?
It sounds like you have a relatively flexible schedule/work from home--since you mentioned you could be flexible with the sitter's hours?
Usually kids are wiped out after camp. You pick them up, they take a shower, grab a snack, and then maybe just let them lounge in front of the tv or read for an hour or two?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve had good luck with high schoolers. I don’t exactly pay an hourly rate. I pay $40 for a maximum Of 2 hours 45 mins. On Mondays I only need a sitter for 90 mins. We need someone 8 days a month generally and this has worked well for us.

Most camps won't let someone under the age of 18 sign out the kids.

one of the camps my kid is doing is thru the school she goes to and there’s no issue with 17yo picking her up from school on Mondays so not sure why the camp would have an issue. The other camp is a drive thru pick up line. It’s never been an issue there either.

[Anonymous]

this is not impossible to find. i had some guy offer my daughter about 3.25 an hour to watch his kid 13-14 hours a day. no thanks. she would happily have done a short job for a higher hourly rate.

i would say a high school kid is your target

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:this is not impossible to find. i had some guy offer my daughter about 3.25 an hour to watch his kid 13-14 hours a day. no thanks. she would happily have done a short job for a higher hourly rate.

i would say a high school kid is your target

$3.25? Three dollars and twenty-five cents an hour? Does he think it is 1960? I hope your daughter laughed and told him to look at a calendar!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:this is not impossible to find. i had some guy offer my daughter about 3.25 an hour to watch his kid 13-14 hours a day. no thanks. she would happily have done a short job for a higher hourly rate.

i would say a high school kid is your target

Not if the job involves driving my kids! The last human I would hire is a high school kid.

[Anonymous]

Ask the camp counselors or look for a preschool teacher with summer hours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You’re better off finding an old lady for this kind of hours not a college student

No old lady wants this job. They don't want to deal with the huge responsibility with terrible pay/hours

[Anonymous]

My rising college freshman daughter is available to help. Please reach out to me and I can connect you. She has a Honda Fit in excellent condition that she can use to drive children.
[e-mail] We live in Chevy Chase section of NW Washington.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You’re better off finding an old lady for this kind of hours not a college student

No old lady wants this job. They don't want to deal with the huge responsibility with terrible pay/hours

It’s not that difficult to take care of children, and who wants a new driver in charge of their kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You’re better off finding an old lady for this kind of hours not a college student

No old lady wants this job. They don't want to deal with the huge responsibility with terrible pay/hours

It’s not that difficult to take care of children, and who wants a new driver in charge of their kids.

Holy dismissal of the value of domestic work batman! Did you tell that to your Mom on mother's day too?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:this is not impossible to find. i had some guy offer my daughter about 3.25 an hour to watch his kid 13-14 hours a day. no thanks. she would happily have done a short job for a higher hourly rate.

i would say a high school kid is your target

$3.25? Three dollars and twenty-five cents an hour? Does he think it is 1960? I hope your daughter laughed and told him to look at a calendar!

he framed it as 250 (or whatever it was) a week, which he thought was reasonable, but when you figured the pay per hour, it was not reasonable. hs reasoning, she would be asleep for x amount of hours each morning ... she is 13 and doesn't need a lot, just an older person to be around.

i think she was too polite to laugh, but she said she wasn't available anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:this is not impossible to find. i had some guy offer my daughter about 3.25 an hour to watch his kid 13-14 hours a day. no thanks. she would happily have done a short job for a higher hourly rate.

i would say a high school kid is your target

Not if the job involves driving my kids! The last human I would hire is a high school kid.

not all high school kids are idiots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:this is not impossible to find. i had some guy offer my daughter about 3.25 an hour to watch his kid 13-14 hours a day. no thanks. she would happily have done a short job for a higher hourly rate.

i would say a high school kid is your target

Not if the job involves driving my kids! The last human I would hire is a high school kid.

not all high school kids are idiots.

+1. My older sister dropped us all off at school every day before going to her high school. She was a better driver than my mom!