How much to charge for babysitting a group of kids?

[Anonymous]

I was asked to babysit during a party. It will only be 4 hours, but is for a group of five 10 year olds who are pretty hard to handle. How do other sitters charge for groups?

[Anonymous]

$10/hr/kid ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:$10/hr/kid ?

I agree. That seems about right, and hopefully worth your time and effort.

[Anonymous]

Not sure why people think you are entitled to more money for more kids. You give the same amount of time, and in fact its easier since the kids play together, 5 is easier than 1.

[Anonymous]

I would ask for $35 an hour. 10 year olds are not as hard as younger kids and you can plan ahead for activities that will fill the time.

4 hours can be filled with some games, a craft and a movie quite easily. You can give the parents a shopping list of items to have on hand (craft supplies, popcorn, rented DVDs, pizza, make your own sundae stuff, etc...)

[Anonymous]

No way would I pay $100 an hour for that...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:$10/hr/kid ?

I agree. That seems about right, and hopefully worth your time and effort.

$50/hour? hahahah. Good luck with that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:$10/hr/kid ?

I agree. That seems about right, and hopefully worth your time and effort.

If you really get $200 for a 4 hour job, I will be massively impressed.

[Anonymous]

Children that age are pretty easy to babysit. Before you whine on me, I do this about every couple weeks for a family so know what I am talking about. All I usually do is feed them, break up argument if any, and start up an interesting topic to discuss or puzzle and game. If they want I let them use their electronics. For this job it should be $25/h so $100 anything above that would be greedy IMO.

[Anonymous]

I just posted above. The kids I watch are 6-12, 1 girl and 4 boys and all "difficult " as well but I can handle them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No way would I pay $100 an hour for that...

We're saying $10/hr per family. Understand?

[Anonymous]

I would watch 5 kids for 4 hour for ~$60 total.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would watch 5 kids for 4 hour for ~$60 total.

you're joking. I wouldn't watch TWO kids for 4 hours for $60.

[Anonymous]

I do party babysitter,450 for 5 hours plus food .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure why people think you are entitled to more money for more kids. You give the same amount of time, and in fact its easier since the kids play together, 5 is easier than 1.

Obviously, you are stupid. The more kids, the more work! You really believe someone should keep five kids for $10/hr?