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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You should have been giving yourself a COL $1.00/hr raise every year.  I always gave my babysitters and maid a $1.00 an hour COL increase every year because it costs as much for them to live as it did for me.  I cannot abide cheap people.[/quote]

Life doesn't work like that. You can't casually babysit for 10 years and raise your rate from $15/hr to $25/hr in that time. No one will ever hire a $25/hr babysitter.[/quote]

Not so.  I pay my maid $30/hr and when I still had babysitters, I was paying $18 an hour and that was 7 years ago.  I am not cheap and I treat other people as I wish to be treated.  I also cared deeply about my children and screwing their babysitter seemed stupid to me.  [/quote]

Being a maid is difficult blue-collar labor. They deserve $30+ an hour. But a babysitter who comes over at 7:30 and watches TV while the parents go out for dinner and just needs to be there if the baby cries to change him or give him a bottle does not deserve more than $15 an hour, and that is generous.[/quote]

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