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 must be really out of touch. We’re in the midlands and £20 gets us three hours for the 15 year old who lives a couple of doors away.
I think she’d bite our hand off for £50 but we don’t do NYE.

i need to take up babysitting!

It depends on the age of the babysitter surely? A teenager isn’t expecting £11.44 per hour.

£100 minimum for NYE, plus snacks provided

How will she get home? Are they paying for and booking a cab?

She has her own car so she’ll be driving there and back. It’s about 20 minutes each way

For a start, you’re a complete pisstaker.
Op I’d expect that £60 to be doubled. Certainly no less than £100

£60 is too little for that amount of time on NYE, especially if she didn’t know the kids and they wake up.

Mine would always wake up any time I had plans even if they slept through the other 364 days of the year.

£75 plus a take away on them.

On a regular Saturday night we would pay £75 for that. I would say £100 for NYE.

If she's only going to be watching TV and probably not interacting with the kids it's the lower end of acceptable. I'd expect good snacks though - pizza, Ben & Jerry's (getting a takeaway might be difficult).

I think £60 is about right if a few snacks and a lift/uber home are factored in. She’s only 20, this is easy work - if she has nothing else to do, it would be a great way to spend NYE!

So she's got to travel 20 mins there and 20 mins back after 1am.

Shouldn be paying her more.

I agree with most of the other posts. I'd be expecting £100 minimum.

She could just decline, say she’s been offered more.

YABU

Whaaat? She’s a fully grown woman! It’s barely minimum wage!
minimim £100, plus pay for her transport home and some food for her.

Yup! I wonder if someone has pulled out because they offer crap money!

To the person who gives their babysitter £20-that’s appealing! I got that in 1991!

You are unbelievably tight fisted and a CF.

At least £100.

Thats less than minimum wage - 5 hours/ £60

I was going to say £100.

She’s 20, she can say no.

I would pay £50 for 8 to 12ish. And leave the babysitter tea and snacks

But babysitting has never played by minimum wage rules. Ever! It’s an easy part time gig. If she doesn’t want it, say no. I’d be tempted to do it for £60! Avoid all that NYE hassle!

Isn’t minimum wage almost £12 per hour now? She should definitely be earning more than that on NYE!

£20 for a whole evening 😂 unless this is a 14 year old, unacceptable.