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[quote=Anonymous]Do you pay your after school babysitter for holidays (like Columbus Day, Thanksgiving) when she does not work?

Do you pay for other days when there is no school (teacher work days, election day)?
(I mean if the sitter does not work for you on those days - ours will not be available for the full day, so I will have to take the day off anyway - so I won't really need her)

Do you pay for the days during winter break and/or spring break, when she does not work?

I am negotiating an arrangement with someone for the school year, and she apparently worked for someone previously who paid for all of the above.  I was not planning to (can't really afford to!) and am not sure what is appropriate.  My instinct is to only pay her for when I use her, but maybe I'm being too cheap.  As a side note, she's making a competitive hourly rate, although it's not as much as she was making last year, when she was working for a very affluent family & there were more children to watch.  So she is coming from a place where she was making more and I am coming from a place where I was paying way less (was using after-school program at the school).  I'm trying to figure out what the middle ground is!

Thanks.[/quote]

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