To ask how much you pay for babysitting?

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I am lucky enough to not normally need to pay for babysitters, so I'm not sure if I am completely out of touch, but how much would you expect to pay for someone to look after 2 kids, from 5pm to midnight, with the kids expected to be in bed from 7ish? Please also indicate roughly where in the country you are.

uk south,that would cost me about 15-20 quid.

£6 per hour, nursery nurse quals, crb and first aid. Hertfordshire.

£70 for a proper CRB cleared nanny/childminder level person or £35 for a responsible teenager. Nothing for friends and family. Gawd bless em. North London.

When I done babysitting I used to charge £8 ph and if after twelve my cab fair home this was west London

I am in Yorkshire.

I gave mine £5 per hour. My boys did not need "putting to bed" they were old enough to go themselves at given times.

Prior to this, I always made sure they were in bed when they were little.

In the spring of this year we started leaving ours (wasn't a case of them needing a sitter before really, just a referee) and it makes our nights out much cheaper

I am babysitting tonight and getting £10 an hour. I am a registered childminder in Surrey.

I guess depending on where you live, you would be looking at £5 to £10 an hour.

I pay my babysitter £5 an hour, plus snacks. My DSs don't need much looking after and get themselves off to bed so it's not very hard work! I'm in East Anglia.

I'd pay around £50 for that.

I pay £10/hour, plus travel when after 10pm. Am in London.

I pay £5 hour for a teenager.

This may be too much as his mother mentioned that he finds playing games and watching pixar movies with the DC fun and can't believe he gets paid for it. At least I have a happy babysitter

£5 p/h west London.

I'm out in the sticks East Anglia btw

£9 per hour plus taxi central London

She probably doesn't count but I pay my 16 year old niece £20 a night, for a bout 7pm to 3am (she stops over).

Oh and DS is six and we live in NW England.

I babysit in to get some extra cash, I charge 10 pounds an hour plus food/snacks. I work as an English tutor and for that I charge between 20-40 pounds an hour so I thunk the families get a bargain when I babysit.

I do sleep on the sofa once the kids are asleep so it's easy money.

If you use an agency (I think Sitters.co.uk is th biggest one) it's £6.50 or £7.00 an hour.

It depends. The first two hours would clearly be child minding and not baby sitting as they are not in bed. Also depends on the person doing the babysitting? A qualified child carer, a friend or a 14 year old neighbor. Also have to consider transport home - do you need to get them a taxi?

A 16 year old neighbor babysitting in the south west would be 5 per hour for sleeping kids and 6 pounds per hour for awake kids. We also leve nice snacks and treats.

I'm a qualified nursery nurse with 5 years experience of in-home babysitting/nannying. I charge £7 an hour, just outside of London.

£6ph in Yorkshire (she's a final year medical student who helped run an orphanage in Ecuador in her gap year, so I feel quite confident they're in safe hands!).

Negotiable for overnight etc - we recently paid her double to look after a total of 11 children - the combined offspring of dh's band - overnight.

MIL otoh, costs a bottle of wine & a laptop full of viruses from downloading dubious games. Bless her.

I pay qualified nursery staff £7 an hour, in the South East. I always provide drinks and snacks.

do some people not either pay a taxi or arrange transport home late at night for none proffessional baby sitters? i have always,you wouldnt be able to get one around here if you didnt

I am a registered childminder with 35 years experience and I babysit for my mindees and all my friends for nothing :)

And they return the favour for me. And looking at these figures I am pretty glad we do cos otherwise we would never be able to afford to go out!!!

£10 an hour I am amazed that people would pay that. Once the kids were in bed I'd be wanting them to be doing the ironing or something if I was paying that kind of money.

We are lucky enough that I have two good friends that do it for nothing, one stays over, the other I pay for her cab home (when she lets me).