Babysitting

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What's the going rate these days?

I've asked my neighbour to babysit in a couple of weeks for the evening while I go bowling for my friends birthday.

I have 2 DC, aged 9 and 6.5. It'll be from about 6.45pm til about 10/11.

I've no idea what to offer her. And she doesn't know what to ask for either!
She's 19/20 and lives at home, a dance teacher so good with kids, my kids know her to say hello to, they met at our jubilee street party (just for background info).

We are Winchester and ours is £8 p/h. She looks after three of them. The one year olds are asleep on her arrival and she puts the three year old to bed. Then she gets the night to relax and drink our soft drinks and snacks

One of Mine only wants snacks and drinks!
But the other likes £20 and Maltesers.

I also have their dcs a lot

I would expect in the region of £8 ph. That’s a fair and good price.

At least £8 per hour max £10 per hour

We pay £10 per hour in the southeast. Qualified nursery staff.

I use Sitters.co.uk (because I don't know anyone who could babysit). Their going rate is £11ph in my area.

I do £5/hr plus £5 with teens so £25 for your night, but would pay more for younger children likely to be a pickle or for older more experienced babysitters. Say £30?

I pay £10 per hour, and my 16 year old daughter who babysits gets paid that amount by her regular family.

Oh wow, I was about to post the same question. So we need a babysitter 6pm-midnight, the 4yo dd will go to bed at 7, so they will only be babysitting for 1 hour and watching tv for 5, yet we need to pay £60 for this?

If they are only babysitting for one hour and watching tv for the other four why don't you just have them leave after the first hour? Thought not 🙄

Ours asked for £5 an hour but we gave her £40
for the evening. We have 4 kids though and wanted her to come back!!! I think we were out about 8-11?

I’d probably just decide like £30/£40 or whatever as ask her if that seems OK. We left drinks and snacks and the wifi code, Netflix etc and she didn’t touch the snacks at all.