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374 replies

SequinsAndGlitter · 06/02/2021 17:53

Needing someone to come to the house at 7.30AM, look after a 7 year old and walk 7 year old to school for 8.45AM.
£5 too low, £10 too high?

OP posts:
whatwedontknow · 06/02/2021 18:39

Was £5 a misprint? £10 is too low.

Has the person said how much they want?

Is breakfast club an option?

MyDcAreMarvel · 06/02/2021 18:40

£20

WitchesBritchesPumpkinPants · 06/02/2021 18:40

£10 too much 🤣🤣🤣🤣

NettleTea · 06/02/2021 18:41

they dont pay minimum wage for a childminder, but then you drop the child at their house, and they will have several children which WILL be minimum wage.
This is more like a nanny role, as only one child and in your own home.

so AT LEAST minimum wage, and they will need to get back to your house to collect their car, unless they live next door to the school.

I would say an hour and a half wages, plus its unsocialble hours. £15-20 per day

Iknowwhatudidlastsummer · 06/02/2021 18:41

£15 sounds very tight, £17 sounds low but fairer.

how often? I'd pay £100 for a week, but if money was really tight, £90 maybe for 5 days, if the person accepts it.

bellie710 · 06/02/2021 18:42

Minimum £20, as well as looking after the child for 1 hour and 15 minutes the person has to get to your house, I would not get out of bed and go to work at 7.30 for £10!

Funnyface1 · 06/02/2021 18:42

Joke thread or CF thread?

Iknowwhatudidlastsummer · 06/02/2021 18:42

£5 is insulting.

Livelovebehappy · 06/02/2021 18:42

I wouldn’t get out of bed for £5.00! It’s an insulting amount to pay. If I was making the trip with my own child, and didn’t have to go too much out of my way, I’d maybe consider it.

WhenISnappedAndFarted · 06/02/2021 18:43

£15-20

Murmurur · 06/02/2021 18:43

I agree you need to include the time for them to walk back to your house so you're paying for at least 1h30, assuming 8.45 is the actual time they can leave school premises.

willFOURbagsbeenough · 06/02/2021 18:43

£10 is far too low! That’s an hour and quarters work. Working on minimum wage it would cost £10.90. As this is childcare and such a minimal amount of work available in comparison to time taken to travel to and from the job I would offer at least £15. I know childminders who would charge £20 for this.

JeanneFrench · 06/02/2021 18:44

Was going to say £30. But on the thread the market rate seems to be £20. Amazed that OP suggested £5 Biscuit

Viviennemary · 06/02/2021 18:44

I don't think you could pay any less than £12 and that would be rock bottom.

IthinkIm · 06/02/2021 18:45

A fiver?

Fuck. That.

DenisetheMenace · 06/02/2021 18:46

Agree with the £15 minimum

pontiouspilates · 06/02/2021 18:47

Who would even bother for a tenner? I'd say minimum £20.

kowari · 06/02/2021 18:48

I'd only consider doing it for a fiver if the child was dropped to my house and I was walking my own child to the same school.

rawalpindithelabrador · 06/02/2021 18:49

Good luck with that! You'd be lucky to get anyone to do this at all but min. £15.

whoamongstus · 06/02/2021 18:51

£5 😂😂😂

Cheeky as fuck. I'd say £15.

user1477249785 · 06/02/2021 18:51

Depends where you are. But in London that would be at least £25.

BuggerOffAndGoodDayToYou · 06/02/2021 18:52

5 years ago my friend was paying £10 per day for a childminder to walk her daughter to school which was less than five minutes walk from the childminders house. She dropped her DD to the childminder at 7.30 and minder then walked with three or four children to the school for 8.45.

I think it would be a minimum of £20 per day for what OP is asking...

emeraldcity2000 · 06/02/2021 18:52

I agree £100 for the week. £12 would be living wage but they have to travel to you and back for only 1.25hrs work so you should factor that in too.

hangaround · 06/02/2021 18:54

For one child, anything less than £20 just isn't worth anyones time.

Slub · 06/02/2021 18:54

I wouldn't walk your dog for over an hour that early in the morning for five or ten pounds never mind your kid Hmm

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