What are babysitting rates at the moment?

[Tulips78]

In my 30s, 5 years experience with ages 3 month - 12 years. What are babysitters charging these days?

Anyone please?

I clicked through to contribute but on reading your OP felt I didn’t have anything to say as my experience of babysitters is teenage kids!

You're going to have to give some sense of where you are as the rates vary wildly. It also matters if you're in a city or rural.

The professional nursery staff I know charge £11 per hour

Our babysitter is our kids Key Worker at nursery. She's only 18 but we pay her around £10 per hour
We do offer her to get dinner and she can help herself to anything in the house but she never does bless her

I don't think babysitting is awfully well paid as such?

The TA at my kids’ school charges £10 per hour for evening babysitting. More for day babysitting.

I'm in Manchester

Look on sitters.co.uk there is a recommended pay calculator

Its £10.75 where I am

I'm SE. £12 - £14 per hour for people with DBS checks and up to date first aid.

£10–15ph for an adult with a background in early years, driving license, experience etc.

The more typical scenario of teenager across the road with no formal experience of kids £6–8ph.

This is in the SE though

My daughter, Level 3 childcare, charges £10 an hour. This is roughly her hourly rate from her employer

1:1 professional childcare is minimum £15 per hour where I am. These are nannies and childminders making more £££.

A neighbour charges £8 per hour- older lady whose children have grown up.

Local teens are happy with £20 and a takeaway for 4 hours as long as DC are in bed and they are just watching Netflix.

depends on what you want and where you are