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[quote=Anonymous]I'm curious what others pay for catsitting- no special needs or medical issues, but your typical feeding and litter box scooping.  We've used sitters through Fetch petsitting, which charges $22 a visit, and teenagers in the neighborhood, who generally charge $10-12 a visit.  I typically tip 20%.  We hired one of the teenaged sitters for an upcoming trip and when she came by to pick up the key said her rate was now $20 per visit.   I probably looked a bit surprised because her mom, who was with her, chimed in, "Oh ues this is the market rate now, everyone is charging it."  I looked back at previous emails and when she sat for us a few months ago her rate was $10/day.  I can understand a few bucks increase but doubling?  It seems a bit steep for at most a half hour visit, but maybe this is normal now?  Honestly, if all the kids really are charging this, then I'm more inclined to pay the extra $2 for a Fetch sitter in the future for the convenience of online booking, credit card payment, and not having to deal with the key every time.  They also do extra things like bring in my trash cans and water my potted plants.

Just curious what others pay.  It's funny because looking back I was comparitively woefully underpaid as a teenage pet and babysitter.  It was a different time and place but there was really no leverage to command your own rates.  Some parents paid well, others not so much.  I might have gotten $20 for babysitting two unruly kids for five hours.  How times have changed![/quote]

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