Do my fees look okay?

[13Katrina]

I'm just starting out and am in the process of pulling everything together now, ready for when I'm registered.

Do my fees look okay? I'm based in South Hampshire

Full week, monday to friday, 8 am - 6 pm - £160
Full day, 8 am - 6 pm - £35
Half Day, 5 hours - £20

This is for babies and pre-schoolers and includes snacks and meals. I'm basically offering a lower hourly rate for those who book longer sessions. My general hourly rate will be £4.50 (so care of less than 5 hours).

Then school children, I was going to go for:

Before School, 7 until drop off - £4.50 (Flat fee)
After School, school pick up until 6 pm -£10.00 (Flat fee)
School Inset Days and Holidays - £3.50 per hour

Anti-social hours £7 an hour for everyone

Thanks in advance for your comments. Have childminding on the brain at the moment. Think I should go to bed.

[mama2three]

Not sure what the norm is for your area , but it looks fine to me overall.

Just one thing to think about - why are you charging less an hour for schoolies in holidays etc than littlies? ime they are harder work than the little ones - and as youre including food ( boy can they eat!) I would maybe give this some thought.

Good Luck x

[christine e]

Looks ok to me other than the before school - £4.50 from 7.00am until school drop off (could be almost 2 hours for £4.50) - think I would do £4.50 from 8.00am until school drop off and something like £1.25 for every 15 mins before 8.00am

Cx

[The Juggler]

I'm just starting out and am in the process of pulling everything together now, ready for when I'm registered.

Do my fees look okay? I'm based in South Hampshire

Full week, monday to friday, 8 am - 6 pm - £160
Full day, 8 am - 6 pm - £35
Half Day, 5 hours - £20

This is for babies and pre-schoolers and includes snacks and meals. I'm basically offering a lower hourly rate for those who book longer sessions. My general hourly rate will be £4.50 (so care of less than 5 hours).

Then school children, I was going to go for:

Before School, 7 until drop off - £4.50 (Flat fee)
After School, school pick up until 6 pm -£10.00 (Flat fee)
School Inset Days and Holidays - £3.50 per hour

Anti-social hours £7 an hour for everyone

Thanks in advance for your comments. Have childminding on the brain at the moment. Think I should go to bed.

Am guessing you hourly rate is £3.50 with £4/hour for those children who attend for under 5? Is £3.50 the going rate in Hampshire - sounds low for the south tbh. if it is keep to it as you don't want to be too high but don't go in too low hon, you will regret it later. I'd go for a higher rate too for the schoolies (at least £4.50 unless you are competing with after school club).

I wouldn' offer such a big discount for the weekly rate hon. Personally I'd rather charge by the hour so if parents can be here early on a Friday they will as they are not payign for it You will be working 10 hour a day, 5 days a week for them - you'll be earning your money. Maybe knock £5 off but no more.

For before after school I'd charge your higher hourly rate either for hours they need or to work out the session fee.

As for CM on the brain - I did nothing but dream of buggies last night - am desperately trying to find a triple buggy at a good price, that DH will allow me to buy !

[13Katrina]

Thanks for your feedback guys. I really appriciate it.

I'm keen to get it right because as you say, it could be hard to change later and I don't want to see myself off. I suppose at the same time I need to attract customers.

I will charge £4.50 an hour for anyone booking blocks of less than five hours. So I guess £4.50 is my general hourly rate. It seems that people in this area charge less for school age children. I will do as you suggest about the before school time 8 until drop off at £4.50. I don't really want to work before 8 am if I can help it - I'm not generally a morning person.

I wanted to offer a discount to people booking entire mornings, days, weeks to get them to book bigger blocks. But i guess if some needs a full-time place, they need a full-time place!

Thanks again ladies.

[13Katrina]

Right, think I've got it sussed. The going rate in my area - seems to be anywhere between £3.00 and £4.00 per hour. What do you think now?


Babies and pre-schoolers

Full week, monday to friday, 8 am - 6 pm - £175 (3.5 an hour)
Full day, 8 am - 6 pm - £37 (3.70 an hour)
Half Day, 5 hours - £20 (4.00 an hour)

As before my general hourly rate will be £4.50 (so care of less than 5 hours or extra hours).

School Children

Before School, 8 until drop off - £4.50 (Flat fee)
Before School, 7 until drop off - £8.00 (Flat fee)
After School, school pick up until 6 pm -£12.00 (Flat fee)
School Inset Days and Holidays - £4.50 per hour

Anti-social hours, as before £7 an hour for everyone

[The Juggler]

Right, think I've got it sussed. The going rate in my area - seems to be anywhere between £3.00 and £4.00 per hour. What do you think now?


Babies and pre-schoolers

Full week, monday to friday, 8 am - 6 pm - £175 (3.5 an hour)
Full day, 8 am - 6 pm - £37 (3.70 an hour)
Half Day, 5 hours - £20 (4.00 an hour)

As before my general hourly rate will be £4.50 (so care of less than 5 hours or extra hours).

School Children

Before School, 8 until drop off - £4.50 (Flat fee)
Before School, 7 until drop off - £8.00 (Flat fee)
After School, school pick up until 6 pm -£12.00 (Flat fee)
School Inset Days and Holidays - £4.50 per hour

Anti-social hours, as before £7 an hour for everyone

I'd keep it simple hon. So based on what I think you are saying.....

General hourly rate is £4.00
Less than 5 hours/day £4.50
Full week (Mon-Fri 0800-1800) discount of £x week
Full day (0800-1800) discount of £3/day

Schoolies - if you don't want to start before 0800 I'd make the 0700-0800 fee higher hon. So

£4.50 0800-school or
£10 for 0700-school.

After school I'd maybe keep the £12 session if you are competing with after school clubs.

[brightstart44]

Hi!

I'm just in the process of setting my fees too so was interest to read your thread!

I too am offering holliday care, at a lower hourly rate than the Under 5's. My reasoning for this is that as I have my own children Aged over 5, they will all play together and there is no planning involved! Well, at least not for Ofsted to be concerned with.

I am in Manchester so my fees will be less than yours based on geography!

However mine were going to be roughly:

£3.00 per hour full time
£3.50 per hour part time (Cut off for full/part time still to be decided)

£2.50 per hour holiday care for over 8's

I will be including all nappies, wipes, nappy cream, milk, food, suncream, etc.

I wonder if these also seem reasonable based on my location?!

Yours seem good and it's nice to know other people do use an hourly rate.

[The Juggler]

they might all play together hon, but they also argue more (when not getting on), need more refereeing, eat more food and use more resources.

I'd charge at least your under 5's rate

[poppinschildcar]

I'm just starting out and am in the process of pulling everything together now, ready for when I'm registered.

Do my fees look okay? I'm based in South Hampshire

Full week, monday to friday, 8 am - 6 pm - £160
Full day, 8 am - 6 pm - £35
Half Day, 5 hours - £20

This is for babies and pre-schoolers and includes snacks and meals. I'm basically offering a lower hourly rate for those who book longer sessions. My general hourly rate will be £4.50 (so care of less than 5 hours).

Then school children, I was going to go for:

Before School, 7 until drop off - £4.50 (Flat fee)
After School, school pick up until 6 pm -£10.00 (Flat fee)
School Inset Days and Holidays - £3.50 per hour

Anti-social hours £7 an hour for everyone

Thanks in advance for your comments. Have childminding on the brain at the moment. Think I should go to bed.

I personally just do a flat fee per hour.

Nanny fee per hour Net £8.50 per hour
Nanny fee per hour Gross £11.25 per hour
Childminding £4.50 gross per hour
Babysitting fee after 7pm £7 per hour

[christinegrout]

looks ok to me

[13Katrina]

Thank you ladies. x