The minimum wage for adults working in VA is only $9.50.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op here. I think there is some misunderstanding. 13yo dd will be hanging out with 5yo while the 5yo’s parent is working at home. So parent will be home, but dc will be in charge of keeping the 5yo entertained, and make a simple lunch. *I* will not be there. I’m the parent if the 13yo.

Tell you daughter to set her rate at $10 an hour. Your daughter needs to know her worth even starting out. As above poster put it, playing with a 5 yr old is work and not a cushy job.

Bull. $15/hr

You’re both delusional. $10/hour is how much a teen babysitter earns when I’m out of the house. A mother’s helper earns less than that.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op here. I think there is some misunderstanding. 13yo dd will be hanging out with 5yo while the 5yo’s parent is working at home. So parent will be home, but dc will be in charge of keeping the 5yo entertained, and make a simple lunch. *I* will not be there. I’m the parent if the 13yo.

Tell you daughter to set her rate at $10 an hour. Your daughter needs to know her worth even starting out. As above poster put it, playing with a 5 yr old is work and not a cushy job.

Bull. $15/hr

I think a lot of you are forgetting it's easier (and more fun) for a 13 year old to play with/watch a 5 year old than it is for a 40 year old woman who's not only decades away from liking to play the way a 5 year old does, but also has a full time job and a household to run which takes a lot of energy. Many of these responses remind me of that thread about the middle aged lady who thought one box of spaghetti and a salad was enough to feed her family of six including two teenage boys because she was thinking of it from the perspective of how much she would eat, LOL. OP, $10/hr is a very fair and good rate for this.

Anonymous wrote:Op here. I think there is some misunderstanding. 13yo dd will be hanging out with 5yo while the 5yo’s parent is working at home. So parent will be home, but dc will be in charge of keeping the 5yo entertained, and make a simple lunch. *I* will not be there. I’m the parent if the 13yo.

Tell you daughter to set her rate at $10 an hour. Your daughter needs to know her worth even starting out. As above poster put it, playing with a 5 yr old is work and not a cushy job.

She isn’t a mother’s helper if the mother isn’t home. She’s a babysitter. And she’s your neighbor’s child so do not go cheap.

$10 to $15. No question.

Agree with PP.

$8 is fairly good for a 13yo who has the child's parent in the house. And she can use this for experience.