AIBU to charge loads for after-school childcare and evening care?

I earn £180 to care for 2 secondary school age children.
They are independent, but need an adult in the house overnight.
6pm - 8.30am
i have dinner with them, chat to them, go to bed at night and check they are ok/have everything for school. They make their own packed lunch and breakfast.
It’s a delightful little job.

I'd happily pay that for a kind nurturing person to pick my child up from school and care for them at home. Just wish I could find someone!

Charge as you feel fits the market, what do others charge for this service? I’d expect to pay £25ish per hour for it. I currently pay £6 per child for afterschool club as it stands and feel this is a bargain but if someone sorted their tea and got them ready for bed too? Definitely 100% would pay the £50-75

A flat rate for 3-7pm even if they don’t need the whole slot makes sense because you can’t get a second job if it ends at 5pm. I would price at the higher end and see what happens

You can charge whatever you want and see where the market is. I would only consider this sort of thing if it seemed worthwhile to me, so YABU.

Seems reasonable to me!

I do similar for a local family a couple of days a week and charge the equivalent of 18pounds an hour for after school, likely to increase at the end of the year. I mainly do after school and holiday care, and have a day rate for the holidays. Occasionally they ask for before school and I have a minimum charge of 2 hours, though they usually only need 45mins or so. Just set out your terms and they can accept them or not.

I see no reason not to test the market if you’re being asked that often. Everything is worth what someone will pay! What would make it worthwhile to you? £100? More?

Where are you based? £20ph is pretty typical for a nanny in London.

A childminder can easily be £7 an hour per child so if they have three kids then £20-25ph to get all the benefits of someone at home, doing cooking and homework etc is a bargain.

Market forces. Exactly. Your time is worth what the market deems its worth. Go as high as you can go without attrition in demand. I did this with tuition. I first started out offering £25 an hour for physics, biology or chemistry tuition, had so much business and requests that I realised I could very easily double my price. Whenever I increased my prices, I did it for new customers but kept my existing customers on the original lower rate or at the very least gave them a large amount of notice that I was increasing my prices.

You might like it when you are earning a days wage in 3 hours. So it seems like a good thing to try. (I am biased though, because I couldn’t have done without this type of childcare).

I’m surprised people are still asking three times a week even if you’re saying no! What are all the people who you say no to, doing instead? Or is it the same three asking every week 😂

I’d say £30 an hour and see what happens.

It's market forces. If someone is earning £50 an hour why shouldn't it they pay you to enable them to work more? Especially at short notice.

I think it's fine.

Decide on a sum of money that makes doing the inconvenient hours worth it to you.

Tell everyone who asks that this is the price.

See what happens...I bet someone will pay it.