Babysitting price

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Rarely go out as a couple. Very little family help so am considering asking a friends very sensible and grown up 16 year old daughter. I have Ds6 and ds1. Would have them.both in bed before she arrives so heres hoping it would be a fairly chilled evening for her in front of netflix. Would let her help herself to food and drink. We would only go to the cinema or the curry house around the corner so only out for a couple of hours tops!!! So what would we pay her? Haven't the foggiest! Hourly? Or per night? Can anyone help? I rem getting £3 a hour in the 90s!!!!!

I charge £9ph in central London but am late twenties and have lots of experience/DBS etc. To be honest the families that only stay out a couple of hours are very annoying, I hate giving up an evening to then earn less than £20!!

Why would you leave a one year old with a 16 yr old?

Why wouldn't you ?

when we had dc1, our first babysitter was 16, and she knew 100% more about small babies than dh and I put together . she was our CMer's dd, and had VAST experience. dh and I might have been older, but we really didn't know anything about little babies.

I give £20/25 if they are just supervising after I've put kids to bed. I also leave pizza in the fridge & lots of snacks, or if I'm feeling generous I'll leave extra money for a takeaway.

If it involved actual work (I.e. putting to bed) then I'd pay more but I've never asked that of a babysitter.

You definitely need an hourly rate, not a per-evening rate, although of course babysitting from, say, 7pm - 9pm would muck up your sitter's whole evening. I think £6 an hour is enough, perhaps £7.50 an hour after midnight.

£10 an hour is too much - round our way (South-East) an adult man earns that for gardening - much harder work than watching your TV all evening!

But I really would suggest you don't go to the cinema, at least unless she has a parent she can call on for help. You'd have to switch off your phones, so she couldn't contact you in an emergency.

When I was 16, I had a one year old dd.

I would take her with me and watch my niece's and nephews
My siblings never paid me😕

I'd say £6 an hour and some nice snacks left on the side x

My teenager gets £10 an hour - London.

Our teenage babysitter asks us for £5 an hour. She is DBS checked due to her mum being a cm. We live in an expensive south east commuter town. I always leave snacks, she doesn't touch them. Our toddler never wakes up.

I would prob happily pay her more & will give her a raise when she turns 17, but equally, she gets paid less when she works in her Saturday job and prefers the babysitting because she gets paid & sits watching telly!

Surely a 16 year old can use a phone to contact if 1 year old is disturbed. At 16 I was basically the family babysitter minding all ages. Some 16 year olds do have a brain and common sense. What about the 16 year old single mums, are they not to be left alone with their offspring.