Going rate for high school babysitter?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We paid $30 for high schooler to watch two kids 6 and 8 while we are at home.

We paid $25 for a recent high school grad to watch one child while we are home.

We expected them to play with the kids, including video games, swimming (dropped them off and picked them up at neighborhood pool, and some light reading with the kids.

You sound like the only one on this forum paying a fair wage.

The other posts were from 2013, that's why the difference in their rates.

[Anonymous]

I have rising sophomore daughters who babysit a lot and typically get paid $14 an hour.

[Anonymous]

I pay $15 an hour for an 8th grader, $20 an hour for older.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I generally pay by the grade. We have an eighth grader who is our mother's helper sometimes, and we pay him $8. A high school junior babysits for us sometimes and we pay her $11 an hour. I pay my nanny $15/hour. She is a 23 year old woman who is a professional nanny.

I guess this was the going rate nine years ago but not in 2022!

[Anonymous]

DD is a rising HS junior. She gets $20 for 2 children, third grade and age 4. Most of the time she is there they are asleep. When in MS, she made $15 per hour.