How much do you spend on childcare?

[Anonymous]

$1500 a month - in home daycare in Alexandria.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:$2275 for a two year old at a smallish center in Manor Park.

Where is this? We are looking in same area.

[Anonymous]

We pay our nanny $4600 a month.

[Anonymous]

We would pay our nanny to take care of our twins about $50,000/year in DC.

[Anonymous]

OP, as you will see, a nanny share becomes economical at the price of center care in DC. You pay half the nanny’s salary and taxes, so consider that too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Downtown DC center in federal building for infant: $1000/two weeks
2yo at same center: $900/2 weeks

Get yourself on a federal building waitlist; everywhere else I checked was way more expensive.

Why are some of the federal ones so much more than others. BH at NOAA is 2400 a month? Im a fed living in silver spring.

[Anonymous]

I pay $3900 in MoCo for a 5 year old and a 2 year old. The younger gets a 5% discount.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Downtown DC center in federal building for infant: $1000/two weeks
2yo at same center: $900/2 weeks

Get yourself on a federal building waitlist; everywhere else I checked was way more expensive.

Why are some of the federal ones so much more than others. BH at NOAA is 2400 a month? Im a fed living in silver spring.

It depends how much your agency subsidizes. Some agencies subsidize more than others.

[Anonymous]

$4853 a month. But it’s so worth it!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:$4853 a month. But it’s so worth it!!

That’s for two kids.

[Anonymous]

When we had one in an in home place, it was about $1400 a month ($350 per week). We now have two with an au pair and preschool. It’s about $2295 a month.

[Anonymous]

About $2500/month for our child, who is 1 of 2 in a nanny share.

[Anonymous]

I live in Maine. When I was in DC I paid 1800 for an infant in Alexandria (6 years ago).

With my 2nd/3rd we had a nanny and paid her 39,000-42000 (she got raises during the three years she was with us), and there were some costs on that with taxes, generally like $3700-$3800 a month. This would be much more in DC IMO. Higher COL.

Then we had one in preschool ($1300 a month) and two in daycare (~2000 a month) so that was like $3300, maybe a little less. It definitely felt cheaper than the nanny so maybe I'm remembering a bit wrong. But daycare also provides food and we needed to buy less toys/art supplies/tickets to stuff nanny would take them to etc.

Now we have #2 wrapping up preschool ($1400 a month), #1 in K ($500 a month for aftercare) and #3 in daycare (~1000 a month) so $2900.

Next year we have GOTTEN TO THE OTHER SIDE! 1 and 2 will be $500 a month aftercare and baby will still be in daycare, so probably less than 2k a month, back where we were with my infant in an $1800 daycare wondering how on earth we would make that work.

Somehow, we found the money, had to stop retirement for awhile here and there. We have very good jobs, it was hard, but when you get to the other side, you feel like you got a HUGE raise haha.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:$2275 for a two year old at a smallish center in Manor Park.

Where is this? We are looking in same area.

De Colores! Love it.

[Anonymous]

$1400 in arlington for an in home daycare. no difference in pay for child's age