Do I have the highest childcare costs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Damn using daycare and an au pair together you’re still spending more than us for 2.

Are you including the cost of having a big enough house for a bedroom for an au pair? That’s why we can’t afford one.

[Anonymous]

These are some crazy prices! We pay $1200 for the baby and $1100 for the toddler. Inner suburb, high quality home daycare... I think they are licensed for 12 kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These are some crazy prices! We pay $1200 for the baby and $1100 for the toddler. Inner suburb, high quality home daycare... I think they are licensed for 12 kids.

That's really low for an inner suburb.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These are some crazy prices! We pay $1200 for the baby and $1100 for the toddler. Inner suburb, high quality home daycare... I think they are licensed for 12 kids.

That's really low for an inner suburb.

Yes, we are lucky!

[Anonymous]

Less than $1100 for a 3 yeat old for a large national brand daycare in gaithersburg. We have a 15% discount based on employer.

[Anonymous]

It's worth it for the cute little snuggums.

[Anonymous]

That’s higher than any daycares I’ve seen and I live in DC and have sent my kids to several daycares. The one we are at now would run you a bit shy of $4500 for those ages, and I thought that was high. Our downtown centers were a little less expensive, those ages would have been $3500.

[Anonymous]

Bright Horizons On K Street would be about $5200/month for infant + toddlerand for 10
Hours a day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I knew someone once who had a nanny they liked very much. When their child became a toddler, they sent him to an expensive Montessori school half days, which they also liked, while keeping the full time nanny. Then they moved to the suburbs, but the nanny didn't drive, so they hired a driver every day to take the child and the nanny to preschool, and then to bring them back, and then to drive them to various afternoon classes. Then they had another baby, but they didn't want him waiting around the area of the preschool, so they hired a second nanny.

I figure 2 full time nannies, a full time driver, and preschool tuition, costs a fair amount.

Wow! I'd like to have as much money as they do!

[Anonymous]

We finally no longer need a nanny (all three kids in school now). She grossed 2G monthly after taxes. I thought we paid a lot.

This was for 8.5-9 hr days year round, regardless of how many kids she had (so for the last 3 years she was watching one during the day and doing pick up from school for the others, watching them for 1.5-2 hrs. During summers she had all three if we weren't away.

I feel like you would spend less for a nanny in your home and be less stressed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We finally no longer need a nanny (all three kids in school now). She grossed 2G monthly after taxes. I thought we paid a lot.

This was for 8.5-9 hr days year round, regardless of how many kids she had (so for the last 3 years she was watching one during the day and doing pick up from school for the others, watching them for 1.5-2 hrs. During summers she had all three if we weren't away.

I feel like you would spend less for a nanny in your home and be less stressed.

Come in, you paid someone $24K per year to watch three kids all day?? That’s not a living wage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These are some crazy prices! We pay $1200 for the baby and $1100 for the toddler. Inner suburb, high quality home daycare... I think they are licensed for 12 kids.

That's really low for an inner suburb.

Yes, we are lucky!

Lucky? Paying more than the mortgage on my first property. Jesus Christ.

[Anonymous]

You’re slightly higher than me OP but not by much. We have a full time nanny (40 hrs live out)+ preschool for one of two kids.

[Anonymous]

We are at roughly $6500 per month for an almost 5 year old and a 3 year old. We have a nanny who works 55 hours a week and is paid overtime for anything over 40 hours. And we pay one private preschool bill for the three year old. Luckily, the five year old is entering public pre-K this fall and our three year is starting half-day preschool, so our nanny will drop down to 40 hours a week starting in September.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are at roughly $6500 per month for an almost 5 year old and a 3 year old. We have a nanny who works 55 hours a week and is paid overtime for anything over 40 hours. And we pay one private preschool bill for the three year old. Luckily, the five year old is entering public pre-K this fall and our three year is starting half-day preschool, so our nanny will drop down to 40 hours a week starting in September.

What hours does your nanny usually work?