What to pay someone to drive your kids to school?

[Anonymous]

Is your private really so much better than public as to be worth all this? Sounds miserable

[Anonymous]

I paid $125 a week for round trip for two kids in 2017. I used a student transportation company.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I paid $125 a week for round trip for two kids in 2017. I used a student transportation company.

How far away was your kids' school from your home? Was it a driver picking up your kids in a car, or more like a van/mini bus that picked up several kids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I paid $125 a week for round trip for two kids in 2017. I used a student transportation company.

How far away was your kids' school from your home? Was it a driver picking up your kids in a car, or more like a van/mini bus that picked up several kids?

Fourteen miles. It was a driver in a passenger van. There was one other child who was picked up.

[Anonymous]

host an aupair. Split schedules are notoriously hard to hire for. Aupair is WAY less than $72/day.

[Anonymous]

How horrible for those children!

[Anonymous]

Your poor kids!

You are going to be loving at $120-150/day minimum

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is your private really so much better than public as to be worth all this? Sounds miserable

All this commuting back and forth plus no school friends in their neighborhood seems like a depressing combo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So your DH was spending 3 hours a day doing drop off and pick up during the workday?

Good question here.


Can you drive any days OP?

We had an after school nanny and due to part-time nature of work and that we wanted someone dependable, we paid $35/hr. and fully guaranteed the hours per week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:to come up with a reasonable number, I would start with an hourly rate for the labor, then add the IRS rate for mileage reimbursement, which is something like 55 cents per mile. So that's like $27 per day for the miles, plus if you're going to pay $15 per hour for driving, 45 for that for 3 hours, plus 27, carry the one,

$72 per day.

We struggle to find teenagers willing to come sit in our house and eat pizza/play on their phone while our kids sleep during the occasional date night for $15/hour these days. Good luck finding a responsible adult driver willing to commit to working a daily split schedule at that hourly rate. (The people talking about what they paid in 2012 or in Texas are wildly out of touch with the current reality here.)

Assuming you’re in the dc area you’re looking at $25/hour at the absolute minimum, assuming you’re providing the vehicle and gas, (much more if you’re asking them to use their own vehicle) and even then it will likely be hard to fill. You should expect to have to constantly be looking for new people to hire as the hours are incredibly undesirable and most are only going to take the job until they can find something better.

[Anonymous]

Guys! This thread is from 2 years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:to come up with a reasonable number, I would start with an hourly rate for the labor, then add the IRS rate for mileage reimbursement, which is something like 55 cents per mile. So that's like $27 per day for the miles, plus if you're going to pay $15 per hour for driving, 45 for that for 3 hours, plus 27, carry the one,

$72 per day.

$100/day. You have a husband not a hubby!

[Anonymous]

Old post but I came across it because I am doing this now. Someone on my neighborhood Facebook page was looking for someone to drive their 2 kids to school 3-4 days a week. I have done it all school year so far. Initially, it was 3 days so we settled on $100. When she added the 4th day, I said $135 only because $133 seemed like a weird number. So on 3-day weeks, I get $100 and on 4-day weeks I get $135. I drive my own car and the school is 25-30 mins away in morning commute traffic.

[Anonymous]

Troll

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Old post but I came across it because I am doing this now. Someone on my neighborhood Facebook page was looking for someone to drive their 2 kids to school 3-4 days a week. I have done it all school year so far. Initially, it was 3 days so we settled on $100. When she added the 4th day, I said $135 only because $133 seemed like a weird number. So on 3-day weeks, I get $100 and on 4-day weeks I get $135. I drive my own car and the school is 25-30 mins away in morning commute traffic.

Are you driving your own kid too? Or have some other reason to be out near that school each day?
If the only reason you are heading that way is to drive your neighbor's kids to school, and you are only getting $135 for a 4 day week, it doesn't sound like a great deal for you.