Anonymous wrote:I agree, OP. Not every situation is solved by a babysitter or nanny. With your low hourly wage, you will just be frustrated by the constant turnover of sitters. Best to make other arrangements.

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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!

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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.