How much do you pay per month in child care ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thanks everyone for your responses. I live on the Arlington/McLean border. I would need 50 hours per week once I go back to work.

Ouch.

OP again. I'm going to start looking for something else as soon as I'm back. 50 hour need will hopefully be for only six months or so.

[Anonymous]

We pay $1000/month in NW for a 1 year old in a center. This rate is subsidized though. Most of the centers we looked at cost around $1700-1900/month.

[Anonymous]

We pay $8K/month - 3 kids in daycare plus an aupair. DH and I both work long hours and travel.

[Anonymous]

In Fairfax/Herndon I pay 280/wk for infant and 250/wk for a 3yo at an in-home daycare. She's amazing. Start making a list of your priorities now. If you're due in Feb and heading back to work in May, that is heading in to summer time and many providers hold spots for older school age siblings of their current clients.

[Anonymous]

Three-year-old twins. We spend a total of 1200 per month on our live-in nanny, not including the price of her food (she mostly eats what we eat, or buys her own "extras"). In McLean.

[Anonymous]

Been paying $250 a week since DD was 9 months. She's now 21 months. In-home daycare in NW.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Three-year-old twins. We spend a total of 1200 per month on our live-in nanny, not including the price of her food (she mostly eats what we eat, or buys her own "extras"). In McLean.

I wanted to add, since someone brought it up, that she's American, had several years experience before us, and drives the kids in her own car. We don't pay for health insurance, but we compensate her for gas, and she does jave one week off of her choosing, so we have to pay her replacement then. She has sick days, too but she hardly ever uses them, and DH or I can usually cover for her. I think we are probably getting a deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:$3600 a month. $2400 for the nanny for my infant and $1200 for daycare center for my 2 yr old. Dreaming of the day they enter public school.....

Why can the nanny take care of both? wow!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We pay $8K/month - 3 kids in daycare plus an aupair. DH and I both work long hours and travel. [/quote


When you say daycare, do you mean preschool??? Normally, you have nanny/au pair and PT preschool.

[Anonymous]

We pay $8K/month - 3 kids in daycare plus an aupair. DH and I both work long hours and travel. [/quote


When you say daycare, do you mean preschool??? Normally, you have nanny/au pair and PT preschool.

i'm assuming the OP means an au pair for nights, weekends, after daycare, when OP and DH are working or travel.


anyway--I'm in NW dc and pay 300/week for in home daycare, hours 8-6 pm, no food provided (but snacks are). We were on lists for centers and the prices were between 1500-1800/month.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Three-year-old twins. We spend a total of 1200 per month on our live-in nanny, not including the price of her food (she mostly eats what we eat, or buys her own "extras"). In McLean.

I wanted to add, since someone brought it up, that she's American, had several years experience before us, and drives the kids in her own car. We don't pay for health insurance, but we compensate her for gas, and she does jave one week off of her choosing, so we have to pay her replacement then. She has sick days, too but she hardly ever uses them, and DH or I can usually cover for her. I think we are probably getting a deal.

You're definitely getting a deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Three-year-old twins. We spend a total of 1200 per month on our live-in nanny, not including the price of her food (she mostly eats what we eat, or buys her own "extras"). In McLean.

I wanted to add, since someone brought it up, that she's American, had several years experience before us, and drives the kids in her own car. We don't pay for health insurance, but we compensate her for gas, and she does jave one week off of her choosing, so we have to pay her replacement then. She has sick days, too but she hardly ever uses them, and DH or I can usually cover for her. I think we are probably getting a deal.

How many hours a week does she work for the 1200? Are her living quarters separate?

[Anonymous]

$1900 a month (all told) for a nanny share for an infant. It's pricey but fair for care we are thrilled with.

[Anonymous]

Market rate.

$2800 salary, plus $300 health insurance per month, two weeks paid vacation, 1 weeks' salary as Christmas bonus.

[Anonymous]

1500. Downtown subsidized by agency center for 6 month old.