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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, I make $20-25/hour in a skilled creative position. Not a highly-skilled one-- actually I'm more skilled than the position calls for-- but still. I don't begrudge the babysitters, but I am a bit yikes at the wage stagnation for writers and related creatives.  [/quote]

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DC hospitals are paying $25/hour for new grad RNs with bachelor's degrees to work in ICUs.  So these girls can grow up, get 4 year college degrees and take care of critically ill patients and make $5/hour more.  Craziness.  :roll:  :? [/quote]

Agree.  Anyone giving a high school teenagers $20+ per hr to babysit isn’t being generous, you are being stupid and actually doing the teen a disservice.  [/quote]

You can’t compare per hour salaries like this with a full time position.  If I pay an instructor $50 an hour for a flute lesson, that doesn’t mean I’d be willing to pay the same rate for a full time instructor, Monday through Friday.  I don’t think it’s a problem for a teen to learn these differences.  Evening work earns more.  People who come to your house earn more.  Etc.[/quote]

An occasional date night babysittee is not comparable to a tutor with a skill coming to your house to give private lessons.  A teen babysitter is popping popcorn, ordering a pizza, putting on a movie, maybe assisting with a bath an reading a couple books. This is very basic minimum effort work. This is not a $20/hr job. [/quote]

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