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Putting my fees up.
Hi everyone, hope you all had a good christmas and new year
I'm in the midlands and currently charge £3.50 per hour per child, this included all meals and snacks and outings.
I do not charge if child is ill, on holiday ect
I do not charge any extra if child only needs to come to me a couple of hours a week
I do no ask for a retainer fee/ deposit ect.
I do charge an extra £1 an hour if unsocial hours or weekends ( but this is rare)
I'm basically a pushover and working for nothing. I occasionally take a little boy to pre school, and earn £3.30!! Lol. I know it's my own fault but I've decided to change the way I work now as I feel I'm worth more!! Haha.
So my question is, if I was to put my hourly rate up how much should I go up and how many minimum hours should I charge for?
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Hi
I am in the east midlands and charge £3.75 am hour with a minimum of 2 hours so if its just a school drop off from 8am say it costs £7.50.
This does include all food snacks and toddler group fees
I also charge if child is sick or on holiday but not if my own are sick and 50% of the fee for my holiday
I am not the cheapest around my area but also not the most expensive either there are some charging over £4!!
Good luck hope your changes work out for you :-D
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I charge £5 per hour and £2 per day for food, and I charge if they are sick or on holiday ....some around here are £6 per hour though....
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Where abouts in the east midlands are you?
Teacake2
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I'm thinking of putting fees up to £3.75 per hour. Does that seem a fair increase?
Will also do the 2 hour minimum and charge half fee for child's days off.
I only have one part timer at the mo so lucky that I do t have a lot of parent to inform.
I'm in Leicestershire x
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Mmm just looked at childcare.co.uk and it will seem that the going rate for my area is £3.50 per hour. Don't want to put parents off for my fees being too high so I might stick to my £3.50 for full timers and increase to £4.00 for part timers, what do you think??
I'm thinking full time would be anything over 5 hours?? Really not sure now! Lol
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Originally Posted by
teacake2
Where abouts in the east midlands are you?
Teacake2
I am in swadlincote hun :-D
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Originally Posted by
mammumof4
Mmm just looked at childcare.co.uk and it will seem that the going rate for my area is £3.50 per hour. Don't want to put parents off for my fees being too high so I might stick to my £3.50 for full timers and increase to £4.00 for part timers, what do you think??
I'm thinking full time would be anything over 5 hours?? Really not sure now! Lol
If you are going to charge £3.50 then charge full for absences as that will make your money up plus a minimum number of hours.
£4 for part time seems fair but what is part time to you, so if they have three hours a day every day is that part time?
Make sure you are clear what you are going to charge for a variety of possible reasons so that when a parent says I want this you have some idea what you should be saying before you agree to something you regret later.
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I'm in the south and charge £4.20 per hour minimum 8 hours, I charge if they are off for any reason but nothing if I'm off. no meals included but all outings
Allie
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I have learnt that being overly generous can back fire - so now I charge full fee for all contracted days unless it's my holiday or sickness.
I charge a minimum of 5 hours a day.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got.
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I charged more for 20 hours less a week or less for 20+.
i also changed extra for meals and outing
One life live it
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I charge £4.00 hr and £4.50 part time this includes lunch snacks outing plus £1 for a hot dinner. Full time is over 16 hours a week. I will be charging full rate if there off and won't be charging for my time off. I do think you have been very generous I would definitely review now while you only have the one little one. X
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