Tealady
10-04-2013, 05:41 PM
I've been advertising my vacancies on a local Facebook Group. I also advertise that I'm available for Babysitting. However, I've had about three enquiries the last few weeks but once I name my price, funnily enough I don't hear again.
Basically you can get a local teenager to sit at £5 per hour. You may have to pick-up and definitely drop home or pay for a cab. Rarely do they have first aid, aren't insured and may have little experience.
Going rate for CM is £4-£5 per hour per child. Minimum wage is £6.19 an hour. An Baby Sitter from agency would cost you at about £6.50, plus a fee for registering or an even higher rate and often have a minimum amount of hours that you would have to pay.
So when I've had an enquiry I've said that I would charge £7 to midnight. £9 after. I advise them that I am CRB'd, have first aid, insurance, own transport, maturity (I'm late 30's) and that I have 4.5 years as a childminder, 7 years as a parent and used to take 15-20 cub scouts away for whole weekends.
However I really think they expect me to charge the same as a teenager. One lady actually came back to the group and asked for anybody to babysit and that "I can pay £5 per hour". So she'd rather some random rather than somebody more official just to save a few bob. I'm not going to reduce my rate as I wouldn't be happy to give up my evening (especially a Saturday) for less. My mindees parent's happily pay this so I can't be taking the wee-wee. I just wonder what some people are actually thinking.
Basically you can get a local teenager to sit at £5 per hour. You may have to pick-up and definitely drop home or pay for a cab. Rarely do they have first aid, aren't insured and may have little experience.
Going rate for CM is £4-£5 per hour per child. Minimum wage is £6.19 an hour. An Baby Sitter from agency would cost you at about £6.50, plus a fee for registering or an even higher rate and often have a minimum amount of hours that you would have to pay.
So when I've had an enquiry I've said that I would charge £7 to midnight. £9 after. I advise them that I am CRB'd, have first aid, insurance, own transport, maturity (I'm late 30's) and that I have 4.5 years as a childminder, 7 years as a parent and used to take 15-20 cub scouts away for whole weekends.
However I really think they expect me to charge the same as a teenager. One lady actually came back to the group and asked for anybody to babysit and that "I can pay £5 per hour". So she'd rather some random rather than somebody more official just to save a few bob. I'm not going to reduce my rate as I wouldn't be happy to give up my evening (especially a Saturday) for less. My mindees parent's happily pay this so I can't be taking the wee-wee. I just wonder what some people are actually thinking.