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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I used to live in DC and now I live on the Bay Area. I feel like rates are similar in both places. I pay the preschool teacher who babysits $20 / hr because that’s what she asked for. A friend just recommended another babysitter (also a preschool teacher) who charges $22 / hr. If a kid couldn’t drive, wasn’t CPR / first aid certified, wasn’t picking up or making dinner I’d probably pay close to their age (so $15 / hr for a 15 year old). It also depends if someone is truly sitting my 4 and 8 year old vs a mother’s helper and needs me home. If I can’t go to a yoga class or out for coffee etc then it’s worth less to me. A neighbor wrote a few of us two years ago that her then 12 year old wanted to me a mother’s helper. I couldn’t leave her with a diapered two year old. I said I’d be happy to hire her at $12 / hr. My neighbor said her said her understanding was that rates were $20 / hr. Needless to say I never hired the daughter. [/quote]

Whoa.  $20 for a 12 yr old Mother’s Helper? That is insane.  Did you live in a very wealthy neighborhood where people are pretty frivolous with money? [/quote]

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