How much do you spend on childcare?

[Anonymous]

Budget $2000 per kid per month until age 21 (child care, preschool, camp, lessons, sports, college). Frankly it probably averages out higher than that if you live in a high SES area and people do expensive schools, camps, and colleges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Budget $2000 per kid per month until age 21 (child care, preschool, camp, lessons, sports, college). Frankly it probably averages out higher than that if you live in a high SES area and people do expensive schools, camps, and colleges.

Your privilege is showing. Many do not even make that much per month!

[Anonymous]

$3200 per month for in-home nanny for my only child. But she also did our (me + baby) laundry and light cleaning. Was totality worth it those first 3 years. I could come home from work and simply enjoy my baby. Only free stuff like going to the park -- we were broke!

Then to a cheaper in-home daycare when my daughter turned 3. (Same nanny still comes to clean and do linen laundry -- not clothing -- 2x per month for us)

I just posted this info on another thread.

[Anonymous]

$34,000 a year for an infant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:$3200 per month for in-home nanny for my only child. But she also did our (me + baby) laundry and light cleaning. Was totality worth it those first 3 years. I could come home from work and simply enjoy my baby. Only free stuff like going to the park -- we were broke!

Then to a cheaper in-home daycare when my daughter turned 3. (Same nanny still comes to clean and do linen laundry -- not clothing -- 2x per month for us)

I just posted this info on another thread.

That's actually really low for a nanny. Did you use her for less than 40 hours a week or did you pay her under the table?

[Anonymous]

PP here. I looked back at my records and it was about 3600/mo. base pay. Frankly she was so wonderful I would have taken out a loan to pay her whatever she wanted. You better believe I counted my blessings.

[Anonymous]

$4500/mo for FT nanny for one infant. Plus taxes and payroll fees quarterly. It is insane. Daycares in inner burbs and DC seem to be about half that cost.

[Anonymous]

$2-2,250 for an infant.

Having a baby is definitely something you save up for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Budget $2000 per kid per month until age 21 (child care, preschool, camp, lessons, sports, college). Frankly it probably averages out higher than that if you live in a high SES area and people do expensive schools, camps, and colleges.

Your privilege is showing. Many do not even make that much per month!

I actually don't think this is far off. My kids don't even have many activities. Currently I just pay for aftercare plus swim lessons and that's like $1000 a month each, add in food/clothes and it goes up. Then over the summer camps are $400-500 a week, plus you still have swim/soccer/whatever extracurricular you have.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:$4500/mo for FT nanny for one infant. Plus taxes and payroll fees quarterly. It is insane. Daycares in inner burbs and DC seem to be about half that cost.

Although with a nanny it’s her salary, right? At least you’re paying a fair wage. Not all the nanny quotes on here are.

[Anonymous]

33,000 for our part of a share.

[Anonymous]

$1400 per month for an infant at White Oak Winners (FDA's daycare in Silver Spring)

[Anonymous]

Small center in NE:
$2100/mo +$140 extra if you get meals so = $2240. That's for age 2+, I think it's a little more for the little babies.

Plus, aftercare for the older kid is about $325/mo.

[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.

I am a fed and checked a few downtown centers last year…none of them had discounts for fed employees unless you were with the agency that had the center (my agency does not have a center). The only perk for a fed was you got on a first dibs waiting list with other feds as opposed to outside employers. Every bit as expensive as regular daycare, BUT proximity to office is a plus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:$4500/mo for FT nanny for one infant. Plus taxes and payroll fees quarterly. It is insane. Daycares in inner burbs and DC seem to be about half that cost.

Although with a nanny it’s her salary, right? At least you’re paying a fair wage. Not all the nanny quotes on here are.

Oh GTFO. Nannies on here are doing just fine. Most Make anywhere from 18-30 an hour with no required background, education or training. Some hardly can speak English. Many are paid under the table, which saves them a boatload of money. Many of these women would not make the same amount working in a daycare or home day care as a teacher and those employers pay people on the books, they would have to care for far more children, could not be constantly on their phones, often have to have a CDA or be working toward one, would not get a 2-3 hour break each day while the kids nap, have to have basic certifications and do training and professional development, and probably make like 16/hr taxed. Day care teachers have it much harder than Nannie’s making 40-50K/year for a relatively easy job.