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To ask how much you’d expect a babysitter to cost on NYE

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ThatMauveRaven · 30/12/2024 18:15

20yo DD has been asked (last minute) to babysit her manager’s two young children tomorrow night. They’ve offered her £60 in cash to be there from 8pm-1am. The two kids will most likely be asleep in bed, so she won’t exactly have to do much work but I still think that this is quite stingey considering it’s New Years Eve!

Thoughts?

YABU - £60 is enough
YANBU - I’d expect to pay more

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KimFan · 30/12/2024 19:00

At least £100.

Gemmawemma9 · 30/12/2024 18:58

Oreosareawful · 30/12/2024 18:22

Wow, I was thinking about £50, seeing as we usually pay £20 for a babysitter for the evening

You are unbelievably tight fisted and a CF.

Shinyandnew1 · 30/12/2024 18:58

TestingTestingWonTooFree · 30/12/2024 18:54

She could just decline, say she’s been offered more.

Yup! I wonder if someone has pulled out because they offer crap money!

To the person who gives their babysitter £20-that’s appealing! I got that in 1991!

Gemmawemma9 · 30/12/2024 18:57

CeciliaMars · 30/12/2024 18:18

I think that's reasonable for a 20-year old. She can say no if she's not happy with it!

Whaaat? She’s a fully grown woman! It’s barely minimum wage!
minimim £100, plus pay for her transport home and some food for her.

LindorDoubleChoc · 30/12/2024 18:55

YABU

TestingTestingWonTooFree · 30/12/2024 18:54

She could just decline, say she’s been offered more.

ilovesooty · 30/12/2024 18:52

I agree with most of the other posts. I'd be expecting £100 minimum.

itsmylife7 · 30/12/2024 18:51

ThatMauveRaven · 30/12/2024 18:45

She has her own car so she’ll be driving there and back. It’s about 20 minutes each way

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So she's got to travel 20 mins there and 20 mins back after 1am.

Shouldn be paying her more.

Holdonforsummer · 30/12/2024 18:51

I think £60 is about right if a few snacks and a lift/uber home are factored in. She’s only 20, this is easy work - if she has nothing else to do, it would be a great way to spend NYE!

Delphiniumandlupins · 30/12/2024 18:49

If she's only going to be watching TV and probably not interacting with the kids it's the lower end of acceptable. I'd expect good snacks though - pizza, Ben & Jerry's (getting a takeaway might be difficult).

nirishism · 30/12/2024 18:48

On a regular Saturday night we would pay £75 for that. I would say £100 for NYE.

GRCP · 30/12/2024 18:48

£75 plus a take away on them.

TwinkleLights24 · 30/12/2024 18:47

£60 is too little for that amount of time on NYE, especially if she didn’t know the kids and they wake up.

Mine would always wake up any time I had plans even if they slept through the other 364 days of the year.

Anon1274 · 30/12/2024 18:46

Oreosareawful · 30/12/2024 18:22

Wow, I was thinking about £50, seeing as we usually pay £20 for a babysitter for the evening

For a start, you’re a complete pisstaker.
Op I’d expect that £60 to be doubled. Certainly no less than £100

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ThatMauveRaven · 30/12/2024 18:45

RaininSummer · 30/12/2024 18:44

How will she get home? Are they paying for and booking a cab?

She has her own car so she’ll be driving there and back. It’s about 20 minutes each way

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RaininSummer · 30/12/2024 18:44

How will she get home? Are they paying for and booking a cab?

latetonews · 30/12/2024 18:43

£100 minimum for NYE, plus snacks provided

Oreosareawful · 30/12/2024 18:39

ThatMauveRaven · 30/12/2024 18:24

£20 for the evening doesn’t even equate to minimum wage! I’d feel ashamed to offer a potential babysitter that.

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It depends on the age of the babysitter surely? A teenager isn’t expecting £11.44 per hour.

Oreosareawful · 30/12/2024 18:37

I must be really out of touch. We’re in the midlands and £20 gets us three hours for the 15 year old who lives a couple of doors away.
I think she’d bite our hand off for £50 but we don’t do NYE.

i need to take up babysitting!

roses2 · 30/12/2024 18:34

This is why I give the kids an afternoon nap and take them out with me to celebrate at other peoples houses. Costs a bomb.

Living wage is £10/hour for a 20 year old. Your daughter is being offered 20% more than this which seems ok. I’d ask for transport / taxi home also.

Hedgehogcarer · 30/12/2024 18:33

That is stingy. I pay a dog sitter more than that if I go to a concert.😑

ForgettingMeNot · 30/12/2024 18:33

I doubt they'll be home for 1am tbh

I'm babysitting and expecting 3am

Love51 · 30/12/2024 18:30

Oreosareawful · 30/12/2024 18:22

Wow, I was thinking about £50, seeing as we usually pay £20 for a babysitter for the evening

Where do you live? The 1980s? I was earning more than that babysitting in the 90s as a mid teen.

Motheranddaughter · 30/12/2024 18:30

£100

Isyesterdaytomorrowtoday · 30/12/2024 18:30

I’d expect £100 min for NYE. We pay £12ph normally and always round up.

they’ll end up being late home and still paying the paltry flat fee

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