We paid around £68 per day in windsor when DS was 9 months-1 yr 4 months (nappies & wipes included, but had to give formula tins).
Now we live Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales its £48.50 per day - not including wipes, nappies & formula.
So £62 is bout right i guess (but yes, extortionate, even wiv 2 salaries).
Think people struggle to work & pay childcare & all bills (for that poster, who frankly got my goat) as the £20 less a day is not always reflected in earnings too - eg. worked p/t in Windsor paid £1041 & nursery about £800 per month, so around £200 left plus hubby's salary which was round £1200 take home so around £1400 to meet all other bills (our rent alone was £975). Working tax credit a god-send for us. This was £800 for 3 days a week mind, not f/t. My f/t salary 23k, p/t around 13-14k. My salary f/t now for similar job 20k & my hubby struggled to get work when we moved so worked p/t for Dominos as a driver from Nov last year til this Friday. He starts next week as f/t cabbie. Been really tough year & we had to take DS out of nursery from March til now as we couldn't afford childcare & the bills even wiv working tax credit (even though rent now £725), have really struggled financially.
It is only affordable to pay for childcare if both have good jobs (lawyer, architect, doctor, graphic designer, etc.) - 5 day week childcare bill here is £970 per month!
SIDEBAR: yes we waited to have children in responsible fashion. I am 41, hubby nearly 40, he qualified as primary teacher in 2014, but had really bad NQT year experience & then struggled to get proper permanent teaching work here. I am professionally qualified at level 7 as careers adviser, but job market tough (140-283 jobs apps per job in careers now) - due to lovely Gove cutting the budgets for Connexions careers service in 2010. I have had 4 f/t jobs since then, sometimes commuting 4 hours a day for work. NEVER say childcare cheap / affordable & don't understand why people say it doesn't pay to work until you have had to really struggle, like people like us. I got notice redundancy twice in my 30s in 2010 & 2013 due to cuts / pay freezes for public sector staff. You just have NO concept of what people have had to go through to keep afloat!!