How much to pay for home care for an elderly person overnight?

[Anonymous]

We've been interviewing people and rates seem to be $15 to $25 per hour.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We've been interviewing people and rates seem to be $15 to $25 per hour.

Why am I paying more for an hour for my cleaner than you're getting for home care? Seems like the latter would be more demanding.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hours are 7pm- 8am. 5 days/wk. Would be paying $300/ wk. This equals out to about $4/ hr. Is that okay? Is it less because the person would be sleeping for most of the time?

Offhand I think this is fine but it depends on if they'd have to keep waking up during the night to provide care. Sounds like not here.

Fwiw we've paid nannies $75-100 a night (7pm to 7am) to "watch" two young kids if we both had travel the same night. And that is market up and down the whole east coast.

[Anonymous]

Cash

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We've been interviewing people and rates seem to be $15 to $25 per hour.

No. Not for the night watch!
You are paying for a safety net not 10-12 hours of constant care.

Seriously go to the nanny forum.

[Anonymous]

Op here,

This is why I was confused. The person will sleep through the night and I would only be responsible for being available in case of emergency. However the time compensation seems super low. Also they did say that it would be as if I'm getting room and board, but I have my own place to live that I will come back to during the day and on my day off. Their house wouldn't be my "base camp". I'm thinking of taking it, but asking to only work 4 days per week for that rate.

[Anonymous]

Worth more money

[Anonymous]

$10 per hour in cash. We have very hard time to find helpers

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here,

This is why I was confused. The person will sleep through the night and I would only be responsible for being available in case of emergency. However the time compensation seems super low. Also they did say that it would be as if I'm getting room and board, but I have my own place to live that I will come back to during the day and on my day off. Their house wouldn't be my "base camp". I'm thinking of taking it, but asking to only work 4 days per week for that rate.

OP, if you are the caregiver trying to negotiate $15, 20, 25 an hour to overnight "watch" an elderly person, you won't get this job.
It is a $75-100/ night job in every major city. And less in a Tier 2 city.

Good luck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here,

This is why I was confused. The person will sleep through the night and I would only be responsible for being available in case of emergency. However the time compensation seems super low. Also they did say that it would be as if I'm getting room and board, but I have my own place to live that I will come back to during the day and on my day off. Their house wouldn't be my "base camp". I'm thinking of taking it, but asking to only work 4 days per week for that rate.

the effort seems very low as well. frankly, the person should just buy an alarm system or DropCam.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:$10 per hour in cash. We have very hard time to find helpers

$4 an hour is too low. $10-12 is more reasonable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op here,

This is why I was confused. The person will sleep through the night and I would only be responsible for being available in case of emergency. However the time compensation seems super low. Also they did say that it would be as if I'm getting room and board, but I have my own place to live that I will come back to during the day and on my day off. Their house wouldn't be my "base camp". I'm thinking of taking it, but asking to only work 4 days per week for that rate.

the effort seems very low as well. frankly, the person should just buy an alarm system or DropCam.

Usually if you are looking to pay someone its gotten pretty bad. I doubt its just to be there and it sounds like they are minimizing the need for help.

[Anonymous]

OP, they are trying to rip you off. You need to ask for significantly more.