AIBU over babysitting rates?

[kittykitty]

AIBU to expect to pay my cleaner a reduced hourly rate when babysitting? When she cleans she gets £8/hour, but I'm presuming that I won't have to pay that for her to sit on the sofa watching TV and was thinking of offering £6. This would be a London rate.

YABU. she;s giving up her evening to have the responsibility of being there for your kids.

am also in london - going rate is £10 an hour

YABU

i would pay her more to look after your children in an evening than to clean your house

£10 sounds reasonable and i am in the South East

It depends, is she crb checked with a first aid certificate? If so the london rates at £8p/h seems very fair to me.
I do cleaning in surrey and charge £10p/h, I am crb checked and firt aid qualified so would not babysit for £6 p/h to be honest.

London is about £8 an hour

No, she's not CRB checked or trained up.

yabu, in manchester the nursery girls we use from dds nursery charge between £7-£9 an hour.

YABU, your clean floor is worth more to you than the safety and security of your child????

Girls from DS's Nursery charge around £30 for 7-11pm. We're up North though so may be cheaper.

YABU. Her time is her time and if that's what she values it at the that's what she charges. You could use someone else but £8 in London is quite a good deal. I'd cost you more!

It's not a question of a clean floor being worth more than my child's safety - I suppose it's just that I remember babysitting when I was younger and I always thought it was a bit of a cushy number, doing what I'd normally be doing of an evening (watching TV etc), but getting paid for it to boot. It's not childminding as my daughter will be asleep and it's certainly nowhere near as onerous or boring as cleaning.

I sometimes use a lovely babysitting agency where the babysitters will do up to an hour and a half's ironing whilst they are there (if your child is asleep). Only £7p/hr. And here in N London. Lovely!

consders moving to North London

babysitting and ironing for £7ph - now that sounds like my kind of bargain! Are you allowed to say who they are?

Don't be so tight give her the same rate. It is an evening job after all.

don't see why not! sitting pretty babysitters. You can google. Oh sod that... let me link them for you. There you go

Where I am cleaner is 10 and a babysitter is 8.

pay £6 an hour,and I'm in London also.£10 an hour for babysitting is outrageous.

YABU

at least pay her the same and be grateful you have a safe and reliable babysitter!!

DH's sister is coming over by bus to babysit for us tomorrow night. We are driving her to and from the bus station, covering her fares and paying her £20 for the evening. she is 16 and will spend the evening watching cable, surfing the net and eating sweets!

YABU.

I don't think £10 is outrageous. If it's what someone thinks their time is worth then that's what they charge. Obviously it depends on experience, qualifications etc if you're making a pitch for that much straight off the bat, but if your existing help charges that for her time usually then that's what she prices her time at, no matter what she's doing. There are nannies on here who won't go out for less than £40 a night (£10/hour and min 4 hour booking)l.

£10 is a lot, even in London. £8 is fair. £6 is fair for a teenager / inexperienced person. But, since she already works for you at £8 an hour, it's a bit cheeky to ask her to work longer and then offer her a reduced pay.

If she wasn't already your cleaner, then £6 would probably be okay. MN is never a fair sample of going rate.

Look at sitters.co.uk and see what they charge for your area.

I am in West London and I think it is about £6/hour.

can she do some cleaning while she is there aswell??

MN never ceases to amaze me.

Here are Sitters' rates:

Babysitters in central London postcode areas
E EC N NW SE SW W WC

Weekdays: £5.85 per hour

Saturdays: £6.85 per hour