Transportation plus babysitting?

[Anonymous]

Would anyone be interested in a job collecting 2 children from school at 3:30, driving 30 minutes to our home, and watching them until 5:30? Pay would be $40/hour or $200 a week.

[Anonymous]

You’ll get plenty of applicants, but if you are looking for someone through this site then you need to post in the babysittering forum.

[Anonymous]

No I am not looking for anyone right now. I’m looking to see if anyone would consider it giving the driving.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No I am not looking for anyone right now. I’m looking to see if anyone would consider it giving the driving.

Given the driving

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would anyone be interested in a job collecting 2 children from school at 3:30, driving 30 minutes to our home, and watching them until 5:30? Pay would be $40/hour or $200 a week.

Correction, $40 a day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Would anyone be interested in a job collecting 2 children from school at 3:30, driving 30 minutes to our home, and watching them until 5:30? Pay would be $40/hour or $200 a week.

Correction, $40 a day.

I think you'll have a hard time finding someone reliable for $20/hr. Maybe you can find another parent willing to help you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would anyone be interested in a job collecting 2 children from school at 3:30, driving 30 minutes to our home, and watching them until 5:30? Pay would be $40/hour or $200 a week.

At $40/hour ($400/week), I can see numerous people being interested. At $20/hour, especially if you don’t plan to reimburse mileage? No way. Plus, you need to pay the half hour to get to the school, so it’s really 2.5 hours per day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Would anyone be interested in a job collecting 2 children from school at 3:30, driving 30 minutes to our home, and watching them until 5:30? Pay would be $40/hour or $200 a week.

Correction, $40 a day.

I think you'll have a hard time finding someone reliable for $20/hr. Maybe you can find another parent willing to help you.

+1. You will have a hard time keeping anyone. Those are prime hours. Everyone and their brother wants a babysitter for those hours.

[Anonymous]

What about $40 a day plus mileage? They can also use my car if that is what they prefer. $40 an hour is too much for driving.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What about $40 a day plus mileage? They can also use my car if that is what they prefer. $40 an hour is too much for driving.

Nope. They have to go to your house and pick up your car, so time starts then. It’s 2.5 hours, so you need to find s way to be okay with a minimum of 11.5 hours, and you’ll have a much easier time finding someone if you could increase to 15-20 hours. Otherwise, it’s just not worth someone’s time. Most nannies and babysitters do 1.5-2 hours in the mornings, then longer shifts in the evenings. And you need very part-time work, but reliably, which means you need to pay a premium, or you’ll have turnover every time someone else offers more.

What do you have planned for summer, teacher work days, Christmas and spring break, days kids are sick? If you can guarantee 15 hours per week, then OFFER extra (but not fire the nanny/sitter if she’s not available), you might have better luck.

Overall, most of us are telling you that very part-time makes $30-40 per hour for the hours you want. Sorry, but that’s the way it goes, those are the hours everyone else needs too, but you’re not offering many hours, so at only $20/hour, it’s more worth someone’s time to take a position where they do an hour of laundry, pick up kids, take them to activities and do dinner, then they’re off at 7, giving them 4.5 hours instead of 2.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What about $40 a day plus mileage? They can also use my car if that is what they prefer. $40 an hour is too much for driving.

But you're not really paying for the "driving." You're paying for their willingness to be available for such short hours, in the middle of the day. Those late afternoon hours would prevent them from getting a full time, 8-6 type of job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about $40 a day plus mileage? They can also use my car if that is what they prefer. $40 an hour is too much for driving.

Nope. They have to go to your house and pick up your car, so time starts then. It’s 2.5 hours, so you need to find s way to be okay with a minimum of 11.5 hours, and you’ll have a much easier time finding someone if you could increase to 15-20 hours. Otherwise, it’s just not worth someone’s time. Most nannies and babysitters do 1.5-2 hours in the mornings, then longer shifts in the evenings. And you need very part-time work, but reliably, which means you need to pay a premium, or you’ll have turnover every time someone else offers more.

What do you have planned for summer, teacher work days, Christmas and spring break, days kids are sick? If you can guarantee 15 hours per week, then OFFER extra (but not fire the nanny/sitter if she’s not available), you might have better luck.

Overall, most of us are telling you that very part-time makes $30-40 per hour for the hours you want. Sorry, but that’s the way it goes, those are the hours everyone else needs too, but you’re not offering many hours, so at only $20/hour, it’s more worth someone’s time to take a position where they do an hour of laundry, pick up kids, take them to activities and do dinner, then they’re off at 7, giving them 4.5 hours instead of 2.

Yeah I just don’t need that, I only need those two hours. I guess I’ll go with a bus company instead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about $40 a day plus mileage? They can also use my car if that is what they prefer. $40 an hour is too much for driving.

Nope. They have to go to your house and pick up your car, so time starts then. It’s 2.5 hours, so you need to find s way to be okay with a minimum of 11.5 hours, and you’ll have a much easier time finding someone if you could increase to 15-20 hours. Otherwise, it’s just not worth someone’s time. Most nannies and babysitters do 1.5-2 hours in the mornings, then longer shifts in the evenings. And you need very part-time work, but reliably, which means you need to pay a premium, or you’ll have turnover every time someone else offers more.

What do you have planned for summer, teacher work days, Christmas and spring break, days kids are sick? If you can guarantee 15 hours per week, then OFFER extra (but not fire the nanny/sitter if she’s not available), you might have better luck.

Overall, most of us are telling you that very part-time makes $30-40 per hour for the hours you want. Sorry, but that’s the way it goes, those are the hours everyone else needs too, but you’re not offering many hours, so at only $20/hour, it’s more worth someone’s time to take a position where they do an hour of laundry, pick up kids, take them to activities and do dinner, then they’re off at 7, giving them 4.5 hours instead of 2.

Yeah I just don’t need that, I only need those two hours. I guess I’ll go with a bus company instead.

I’m home by 5 every day, so I wouldn’t want someone at my house.

[Anonymous]

$40 for unskilled labor? Yah no unless they also do some light plumbing work too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:$40 for unskilled labor? Yah no unless they also do some light plumbing work too.

Again, you're not paying for the actual work. You are paying for the nanny to set aside two hours in the middle of the day, the most sought after hours of the day!