Does this price sound about right?

[Anonymous]

Looking to put my to-be 2 year old in daycare this fall. I have zero idea what normal daycare costs are like. I did find one that I like (not a chain daycare, but a Jewish school) and it would be 3 half days (four hours) a week for about $140/week, or 5 half days for $200/week. Does this sound about right?

What is everyone's experience with chain daycares? I'm not completely against them, and I'm not gung-ho on a specific method like Montessori, but what concerns me most about chain daycares is that they seem to have extremely high turnover and they don't seem to treat employees well.

[Anonymous]

No, that’s expensive for 1/2 days.

[Anonymous]

Daycare in general has a high turnover rate. The teachers don’t get paid a lot. Price depends on where you are. I paid for part time daycare (up to 24 hours) and paid $275/week. Not cheap but around the same price as most in my area.

[Anonymous]

We paid $370 a month for 3 half days a week (4 hrs/day) at a preschool associated with a church. We thought that was cheap though, my guess is the preschool was financially subsidized by the church, but I don't know. The teachers were seasoned and had been teaching for years at the same preschool (which follows a typical school calendar and is closed in the summers)

I have no experience with daycares, my impression is that it has higher staff turnover, maybe from teachers being burnt out and low wages, but I can't speak from experience.

[Anonymous]

My son was at an all-day program at a Jewish preschool pre-Covid. The program was from 8:00-6:00 and we paid 26K for the year. (We actually got some money refunded due to Covid) You can extrapolate from there. I don't think 140 per week sounds unreasonable to me.