Is $20 per hour for an evening babysitter in DC typical?

[Anonymous]

DC is a big area with a wide range of incomes. You can find people cheaper than $20 an hour but don't expect much. I'm sure SE is cheaper than NW. I babysit on the side and charge $25/hr minimum and I am booked as many nights as I want a week, no shortage willing to pay my rate. But I know there are also families out there paying $10 or less.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here: Thanks for the replies. Our home daycare provider has offered to babysit at her home in the evenings. She's charging $10 per hour. I am going to go with this option instead. The few babysitters I did talk to had very bad attitudes. They demanded to know the hours and pay right away.

Well it is kind of an important part of the equation. If you need a sitter at 6 and I'm not available until 7 and you want to pay $10 an hour and I require $15 then why spend an hour talking? Am I missing something here?

It was the tone they used. Obviously those details are important but they can be asked in a polite way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC is a big area with a wide range of incomes. You can find people cheaper than $20 an hour but don't expect much. I'm sure SE is cheaper than NW. I babysit on the side and charge $25/hr minimum and I am booked as many nights as I want a week, no shortage willing to pay my rate. But I know there are also families out there paying $10 or less.

Troll

[Anonymous]

We live in AU Park and pay AU college students $15/hr to watch two preschoolers. Last year, our PT nanny received $20/hr + taxes (and paid holidays). We've paid as much as $25/hr for a mature neighborhood woman who specializes in sick care.

[Anonymous]

Op here: I got a lot of responses later for $15 per hour. I am meeting a few nannies with babysit this coming weekend. They all asked for $20, but when I didn't respond right away they said they're flexible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We live in AU Park and pay AU college students $15/hr to watch two preschoolers. Last year, our PT nanny received $20/hr + taxes (and paid holidays). We've paid as much as $25/hr for a mature neighborhood woman who specializes in sick care.

These numbers are from two years ago. Prices have gone up for everything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC is a big area with a wide range of incomes. You can find people cheaper than $20 an hour but don't expect much. I'm sure SE is cheaper than NW. I babysit on the side and charge $25/hr minimum and I am booked as many nights as I want a week, no shortage willing to pay my rate. But I know there are also families out there paying $10 or less.

Troll

I believe it. My friend baby sat Fridays and Saturdays when she was on me school. She charged $25 am hour and had no shortage of jobs. This was also in dc proper

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC is a big area with a wide range of incomes. You can find people cheaper than $20 an hour but don't expect much. I'm sure SE is cheaper than NW. I babysit on the side and charge $25/hr minimum and I am booked as many nights as I want a week, no shortage willing to pay my rate. But I know there are also families out there paying $10 or less.

Troll

I believe it. My friend baby sat Fridays and Saturdays when she was on me school. She charged $25 am hour and had no shortage of jobs. This was also in dc proper

Why would this be a troll? We pay $20/hour for 2 kids, but also pay for an Uber home. (We live in Capitol Hill.) For a babysitter w/ their own transport, I'd go $25/hour.

[Anonymous]

Find a college kid who will take less than $20.

[Anonymous]

We pay $15 in MoCo.

[Anonymous]

Some parents rather have the more experienced person. Different priorities.

[Anonymous]

Nanny here. I charge $20 per hour and I am booked up. I literally had one babysitting family who wanted me on the books through 2019.

[Anonymous]

This is the op from the post 2 years ago! We still pay his home daycare provider $10 per hour and it works out well. My son goes to bed late and we come back early.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here: I got a lot of responses later for $15 per hour. I am meeting a few nannies with babysit this coming weekend. They all asked for $20, but when I didn't respond right away they said they're flexible.

Yes, but there is no loyalty. Flexible means they will ditch your family when they get 20/25 an hour

[Anonymous]

We pay $15/hr and have issues finding people.