Paying 13yo neighbor to water flowers for two weeks?

[Anonymous]

We are going out of town for two weeks, and we'd like to ask our 13yo neighbor if he'd like the job of watering our front flower bed (once) daily. We'd pay him, but we aren't sure what the going rate for something like this is!

The hose and spigot are right there, and the job would take him 2 minutes tops (I just did it!)

What amount would you offer to pay him?

[Anonymous]

Hmmm...I'd give him $20 or $30, maybe even as high as $50. Is he also keeping an eye on your ho use and looking out for packages?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are going out of town for two weeks, and we'd like to ask our 13yo neighbor if he'd like the job of watering our front flower bed (once) daily. We'd pay him, but we aren't sure what the going rate for something like this is!

The hose and spigot are right there, and the job would take him 2 minutes tops (I just did it!)

What amount would you offer to pay him?

I'd offer $10/ day to make it worth his while.

[Anonymous]

Depends how much you like the flowers.

I'd offer $7/day. Same hourly wage as a mother's helper. Yes, it's only a couple of minutes, but you are also paying for reliability

[Anonymous]

$5 day

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hmmm...I'd give him $20 or $30, maybe even as high as $50. Is he also keeping an eye on your ho use and looking out for packages?

No, we have another neighbor doing that (we also tend to their mail when they are out of town.) I want to ask the boy because he's a nice young man and I'm sure he'd like some spending cash.

I spent about $50 tops on the flowers, just a bunch of annuals and ornamental grasses (that don't need water.) He'd only be watering a very small area of annuals.

[Anonymous]

I'd give him $20.

[Anonymous]

I would add in taking the trash cans down and back up and give him $50 for the two weeks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd give him $20.

I watered for a neighbor (I was expecting nothing, I was being neighborly) and they gave me a $20 gift card. I was very appreciative!

[Anonymous]

I did that last year. I paid her $30 but I ha a lot if flowers, took her about 15-20 minutes a day from start to finish.

Flowers looked great, she got an art set she wanted. Win,win.

[Anonymous]

My 13 year old did this last year. She went 3-4 times a week for two weeks and got $30 ($5ish per day).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:$5 day

For $5, they won't water carefully.

[Anonymous]

Please agree on a payment amount beforehand. This is not a time consuming job, but a job nonetheless. don't surprise him at the end, if too little it could create hurt feelings

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:$5 day

For $5, they won't water carefully.

That's a total of $70 for a job that takes only a few minutes each day. That seems pretty good for a 13 year old who doesn't pay taxes or rent or have any other expenses. OP, if your neighbor doesn't think that's enough, my 13 year old will gladly do it for that amount.

[Anonymous]

If it's any comparison, my just-turned-15 year old is going to be biking about 10-12 min each way to take in the mail of friends of ours this summer, and she is getting $5 per visit and thinks that is great since it will take only 20-25 min each time.