Overnight rate for babysitter?

[Anonymous]

Hi everyone, we are looking to see what is the best practice in terms of pay for a nanny/babysitter? We are looking to go away for one night and leave a toddler with a trusted former nanny. What do people typically pay for overnight? Our schedule for an event would have us leaving around 3pm and return around 10am. What do people think?

[Anonymous]

Ask her what her travel rate is. I charge $450 a day or part of a day.

I don’t think you’re going to get a discount for a temp nanny sleeping. She’ll have a flat rate.

[Anonymous]

She said she doesn’t know since she hasn’t done this before other than with a previos family she lived with which she said was a bit of a different situation. We want to be fair to her so which is why we are asking.

[Anonymous]

If your children sleep through the night:
Hourly rate from when she arrives until 10pm
Flat rate from 10pm-6am, ($75-100)
Hourly rate from 6am until you're back.

If your children don't sleep through the night:
Hourly the entire time

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If your children sleep through the night:
Hourly rate from when she arrives until 10pm
Flat rate from 10pm-6am, ($75-100)
Hourly rate from 6am until you're back.

If your children don't sleep through the night:
Hourly the entire time

This is pretty much what we do as well.

hourly rate until 10pm then flat rate ($125) from 10p-6a and then hourly rate again. DS sleeps through the night. This is what she came up with when we asked, and we are more than happy to oblige.

[Anonymous]

Both PPs nailed it. Overnight varies from $50-150, usually depending on the hourly rate.

[Anonymous]

I will never understand the discounted “over night rate”. If the nanny can’t leave and is responsible for the child, she’s working. Why not pay her usual hourly rate?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will never understand the discounted “over night rate”. If the nanny can’t leave and is responsible for the child, she’s working. Why not pay her usual hourly rate?

because we are sleeping. I’m not going to charge $20 an hour when I’m
asleep. The flat rate covers the inconvenience of not being in my own bed. OP I would charge hourly until 11pm and again at 7am. $75 flat rate for the overnight part.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will never understand the discounted “over night rate”. If the nanny can’t leave and is responsible for the child, she’s working. Why not pay her usual hourly rate?

because we are sleeping. I’m not going to charge $20 an hour when I’m
asleep. The flat rate covers the inconvenience of not being in my own bed. OP I would charge hourly until 11pm and again at 7am. $75 flat rate for the overnight part.

But you are still on call. That’s working. I’m not a nanny but I certainly would pay our nanny her hourly wage for all hours she works. And being on call in my house is work.

I think you are shortchanging yourself, PP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will never understand the discounted “over night rate”. If the nanny can’t leave and is responsible for the child, she’s working. Why not pay her usual hourly rate?

because we are sleeping. I’m not going to charge $20 an hour when I’m
asleep. The flat rate covers the inconvenience of not being in my own bed. OP I would charge hourly until 11pm and again at 7am. $75 flat rate for the overnight part.

But you are still on call. That’s working. I’m not a nanny but I certainly would pay our nanny her hourly wage for all hours she works. And being on call in my house is work.

I think you are shortchanging yourself, PP.

+1. It’s interesting because I see a lot of nannies shortchanging themselves in some areas on this forum as well as making outlandish demands and having unrealistic expectations in other areas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will never understand the discounted “over night rate”. If the nanny can’t leave and is responsible for the child, she’s working. Why not pay her usual hourly rate?

because we are sleeping. I’m not going to charge $20 an hour when I’m
asleep. The flat rate covers the inconvenience of not being in my own bed. OP I would charge hourly until 11pm and again at 7am. $75 flat rate for the overnight part.

But you are still on call. That’s working. I’m not a nanny but I certainly would pay our nanny her hourly wage for all hours she works. And being on call in my house is work.

I think you are shortchanging yourself, PP.

+1. It’s interesting because I see a lot of nannies shortchanging themselves in some areas on this forum as well as making outlandish demands and having unrealistic expectations in other areas.

+2. We could start a whole thread on that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will never understand the discounted “over night rate”. If the nanny can’t leave and is responsible for the child, she’s working. Why not pay her usual hourly rate?

because we are sleeping. I’m not going to charge $20 an hour when I’m
asleep. The flat rate covers the inconvenience of not being in my own bed. OP I would charge hourly until 11pm and again at 7am. $75 flat rate for the overnight part.

But you are still on call. That’s working. I’m not a nanny but I certainly would pay our nanny her hourly wage for all hours she works. And being on call in my house is work.

I think you are shortchanging yourself, PP.

I am this PP. if the kid wakes up in the night or there is a legit night time emergency I would switch to hourly. But to sleep? I just don’t think that’s fair.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will never understand the discounted “over night rate”. If the nanny can’t leave and is responsible for the child, she’s working. Why not pay her usual hourly rate?

because we are sleeping. I’m not going to charge $20 an hour when I’m
asleep. The flat rate covers the inconvenience of not being in my own bed. OP I would charge hourly until 11pm and again at 7am. $75 flat rate for the overnight part.

But you are still on call. That’s working. I’m not a nanny but I certainly would pay our nanny her hourly wage for all hours she works. And being on call in my house is work.

I think you are shortchanging yourself


, PP.

I am this PP. if the kid wakes up in the night or there is a legit night time emergency I would switch to hourly. But to sleep? I just don’t think that’s fair.

You can’t leave and you’re still responsible. It’s more than fair to be paid your full hourly rate. And I write this as a nanny employer.

[Anonymous]

Are you awake? Ok full rate. But if sleeping, no.

[Anonymous]

If a Nanny is allowed to sleep (which she should be for the hours that you would need her OP), then a flat overnight rate would be fair providing your child will sleep throughout the night.

Some children will not while the parent(s) are not in the home. ;(
In these cases - a Nanny should make her hourly normal rate then.

However for a child who will sleep through the night, an overnight rate of $75-100 seems fair.

*Note:
I used to get my previous jobs through a Nanny agency & in those positions, I would always make my regular hourly rate even if I were doing an overnight.
But as a freelance Nanny > I can set my own overnight rate.