To ask how much you’d expect a babysitter to cost on NYE

[ThatMauveRaven]

20yo DD has been asked (last minute) to babysit her manager’s two young children tomorrow night. They’ve offered her £60 in cash to be there from 8pm-1am. The two kids will most likely be asleep in bed, so she won’t exactly have to do much work but I still think that this is quite stingey considering it’s New Years Eve!

Thoughts?

YABU - £60 is enough
YANBU - I’d expect to pay more

I think that's reasonable for a 20-year old. She can say no if she's not happy with it!

I'd say £100.

They are taking the piss! £100 should be the bare minimum!

I'd say at £15 per hour at least since its prime time. So for 5 hours that would be £75

I think £60 is not a lot for NYE to be honest.£100 more like it.

I mean if she wants to, that's fine. I reckon the manager thinks they're both getting a good deal (cheap babysitter for them, money for very little for her) and if she didn't have plans, it makes sense.

Round here for a babysitter it's circa £30 an hour for NYE - but that's someone DBSd/referenced/well-known in the area.

£100 minimum for New Year's Eve.

60 quid is fine.
Its watching tv and doing faff all.
If she has plans, or doesn't want to, just say no.
NYE (like weddings) has become an exercise is gouging money out of people.
60 is fine.

Christ no, at least double. That's absolutely taking the piss, which is a horrid thing for a manager to do.

Absolutely this!

Wow, I was thinking about £50, seeing as we usually pay £20 for a babysitter for the evening

That’s £12.00 an hour!!!!!
Absolutely NOT enough. Taking the piss, I’d laugh at them .

£12 an hour is what I pay our babysitter for just a regular Saturday night where we'll be home by 11. It's definitely a cheapskate offer for New Year's Eve and getting home after 1am! I'd expect at least £15 an hour, if not more.

@Oreosareawful
How many hours do you get for £20??

£20 for the evening doesn’t even equate to minimum wage! I’d feel ashamed to offer a potential babysitter that.

£100 is what I’d expect to pay for those hours on NYE.

At least £100

I’d expect £80 at least and for them to get a takeaway pizza and some drinks in for her.
Not booze, just some cans of pop for her.

That’s poor wages & not professional of the manager.

I’d expect £100 min for NYE. We pay £12ph normally and always round up.

they’ll end up being late home and still paying the paltry flat fee

£100

Where do you live? The 1980s? I was earning more than that babysitting in the 90s as a mid teen.

I doubt they'll be home for 1am tbh

I'm babysitting and expecting 3am

That is stingy. I pay a dog sitter more than that if I go to a concert.😑

This is why I give the kids an afternoon nap and take them out with me to celebrate at other peoples houses. Costs a bomb.

Living wage is £10/hour for a 20 year old. Your daughter is being offered 20% more than this which seems ok. I’d ask for transport / taxi home also.